Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interoperability in supply chain and logistics: What can the Common Framework offer? – A scientific evaluation

Different business models fostering more flexible management of supply chains have been proposed in recent years. The rapid technology development is supporting more reliable and efficient ICT-based cooperation among stakeholders within the supply chain. The technology itself, serving as infrastructure for cooperation has evolved and also tools and frameworks assisting the development and deployment of these technologies have been developed. During this evolvement there have been several attempts to organise different artefacts into frameworks for interoperability. The motivation for this paper is to evaluate qualities held by the Common Framework in relation to new business models, interoperability and other frameworks for interoperability. Consequently our main research question is: Does the Common Framework offer any new qualities serving interoperability in the supply chain management sector compared to established frameworks? The idea behind this evaluation is that the Common Framework contrary to some of the technical-based frameworks already at early stages of development focused on the needed interfaces based on business requirements. The study is based on a combination of literature review and design science. The main contribution from this paper is to put Common Framework in a context with other interoperability frameworks suitable for supply chain management.
Leptotrichia buccalis bacteremia in neutropenic children

Two new cases of Leptotrichia buccalis bacteremia in seriously ill patients were described. The anaerobic, gram-negative microorganism L. buccalis was isolated from blood cultures of two children with severe leukopenia. Anaerobic organisms should be taken into account when a standard protective antibiotic chemotherapy is considered in the immunosuppressed host.
Impact of Sales Promotion Techniques on Consumers towards FMCG

Sales promotions are generally looked at as tools that undermine the brand; yet a tool that is necessarily meant to speed up sales. Consumer sales promotion take up a large share of the total marketing expenditure despite which it remains an area that still attracts attention as an essential component of the promotion mix meant to increase short term sales. It is therefore not surprising that most of the marketers resort to sales promotions to attract the competitor's market share. The present paper reports the results of the impact of consumer sales promotions on 579 consumers. This study has attempted to explore which sales promotional techniques going to be dominate on personal care products in Fast Moving Consumer Goods. Defining of Sales Promotion
Drug-Related Deaths in France in 2007: Estimates and Implications

Compared with other European countries, France's low number of drug use-related deaths may appear enviable. Previous studies have suggested significant underreporting. The three official records listing drug-related deaths in France in 2007 were cross-checked. Different capture–recapture techniques were applied. The estimated numbers of drug-related deaths differ from the official figures. Different explanations and proposals to improve the recordings are consequently discussed. However, there are doubts as to the reliability of at least one of the records and the consequent accuracy of the proportion of overlapping cases. Estimates should be handled with caution and interpreted as upper bounds.
Morphology of the kidney in the West African caecilian, Geotrypetes seraphini (Amphibia, Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae)

This study deals with the morphology and ultrastructure of the mesonephros in adult caecilians of the species Geotrypetes seraphini. Based on serial sections in paraffin and araldite, nephrons are reconstructed and the cellular characteristics of different nephron segments described. The long and slender mesonephric kidneys of G. seraphini are broadest caudally and taper toward the front, where the organs are divided into smaller segmental divisions. Two nephron types can be distinguished on the basis of their connections to the coelom and their position within the nephric tissue: ventral nephrons connect to the coelom via a ciliated peritoneal funnel, whereas medial nephrons lack this connection. Both nephron types are composed of a filtration unit, the Malpighian corpuscle, and a renal tubule, which can be divided into six morphologically distinct segments: neck segment, proximal tubule, intermediate segment, early distal tubule, late distal tubule, and collecting tubule. Collecting tubules merge and form a branch system that opens into collecting ducts. Collecting ducts empty into the Wolffian duct. Proximal tubules of nephrons in the frontal divisions are morphologically different from the proximal tubules of more caudal kidney regions. Distal tubule subdivision is only clearly recognizable at the electron microscopic level. The length of each nephron segment is calculated from a ventral nephron with a total length of ∼3.8 mm, and the course of the segments within the nephric tissue is reported. The number of nephrons was estimated at 1,700 units in each kidney. The segmentation and ultrastructure of the mesonephric nephrons in G. seraphini are discussed in relation to nephron descriptions from other caecilians and we further discuss the evolutionary origin of the amphibian nephron. J. Morphol. 262:583–607, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Environmental Relationships of the Internal Political Economy of Marketing Channels

The political economy framework illuminates interplay between the internal and external sociopolitical and economic forces of marketing channels. Framing the collection and analysis of data from retailer informants on channel environments, configuration, and decision structure, a theoretical model is developed for explaining interorganizational responses to uncertainty and dependence constraints of the channel environment. Heterogeneity is hypothesized to precipitate complex and fluid channel structures as a means of coping with uncertainty. In contrast, high levels of variability in the output environment are expected to foster vertical integration and bureaucratization as a means of reducing dependence. Support for both hypotheses is reported and implications for future research are discussed.
Fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and lenalidomide in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. A multicenter phase I–II GIMEMA trial

Abstract The activity and safety of a regimen combining lenalidomide with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide (FC) was investigated in patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Treatment consisted of six monthly courses of the FC regimen combined with 14 days of lenalidomide given at the starting dose of 2.5 mg during course 1. The maximum tolerated dose of lenalidomide was 5 mg. Forty patients were assessed for response, 66% were IGHV unmutated, 45% showed deletion 11q or 17p. The overall response and complete remission rates were 62.5% and 22.5%, respectively, the median progression-free and overall survival (OS) were 19 and 45 months, respectively. Grade 3–4 granulocytopenia was observed in 65% of cases, severe infections in 7.5%, the lenalidomide-related toxicity was mild. In conclusion, the results of this study demonstrate that low-dose lenalidomide associated with the FC schedule is an effective treatment for R/R patients with CLL, associated with an acceptable safety profile.
ISAR-REACT 3A: a study of reduced dose of unfractionated heparin in biomarker negative patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

AIMS Although a 140 U/kg dose of unfractionated heparin (UFH) was comparable with bivalirudin in terms of net clinical outcome in the Intracoronary Stenting and Antithrombotic Regimen: Rapid Early Action for Coronary Treatment (ISAR-REACT) 3 trial, it was associated with a higher risk of bleeding. We designed this study to assess whether a reduction in the UFH dose from 140 to 100 U/kg is associated with improved net clinical outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 2505 biomarker negative patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after clopidogrel pre-treatment received a single bolus of 100 U/kg UFH. The primary endpoint was net clinical outcome-a quadruple endpoint of death, myocardial infarction, urgent target-vessel revascularization within 30 days, or in-hospital REPLACE 2 defined major bleeding. The primary comparison was with the historical UFH group of ISAR-REACT 3 (2281 patients). In a second analysis, we checked for non-inferiority against the historical bivalirudin arm of ISAR-REACT 3 (2289 patients). The incidence of the primary endpoint was 7.3% in the lower UFH dose group compared with 8.7% in the higher UFH dose group [hazard ratio (HR) 0.81; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.67-1.00; P = 0.045]. The incidence of major bleeding was 3.6% in the lower UFH dose group and 4.6% in the higher UFH dose group (HR 0.79; 95% CI 0.59-1.05; P = 0.11). The lower UFH dose met the criterion of non-inferiority compared with bivalirudin (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION In biomarker negative patients undergoing PCI after clopidogrel loading, a reduced dose of 100 U/kg UFH provided net clinical benefit compared with the historical control of 140 U/kg UFH in the ISAR-REACT 3 trial. The benefit was mostly driven by reduction in bleeding. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION URL www.clinicaltrials. gov; Unique identifier NCT00735280.
How the Dragon Captured the World Export Markets: Outsourcing and Foreign Investment Lead the Way

This paper explores several theories regarding how China has become highly successful in capturing world export markets. The paper concludes that increased competitiveness is dependant on, but not limited to several factors discussed in detail including, exchange rate undervaluation, low wage rates and excess labor resources. Direct foreign investment which enabled China to produce products that meet world market specifications, brought new technology and foreign management, played a key factor. Reasons for China's advantage over other East Asian countries are explored. The merits and methods of various measures of China's competitiveness and comparative competitiveness are also discussed.
The Stoichiometry of the Cytochrome P-450-catalyzed Metabolism of Methoxyflurane and Benzphetamine in the Presence and Absence of Cytochrome b5(*)

The complete stoichiometry of the metabolism of the cytochrome b5 (cyt b5)-requiring substrate, methoxyflurane, by purified cytochrome P-450 2B4 was compared to that of another substrate, benzphetamine, which does not require cyt b5 for its metabolism. Cyt b5 invariably improved the efficiency of product formation. That is, in the presence of cyt b5 a greater percentage of the reducing equivalents from NADPH were utilized to generate substrate metabolites, primarily at the expense of the side product, superoxide. With methoxyflurane, cyt b5 addition always resulted in an increased rate of product formation, while with benzphetamine the rate of product formation remained unchanged, increased or decreased. The apparently contradictory observations of increased reaction efficiency but decrease in total product formation for benzphetamine can be explained by a second effect of cyt b5. Under some experimental conditions cyt b5 inhibits total NADPH consumption. Whether stimulation, inhibition, or no change in product formation is observed in the presence of cyt b5 depends on the net effect of the stimulatory and inhibitory effects of cyt b5. When total NADPH consumption is inhibited by cyt b5, the rapidly metabolized, highly coupled (≌50%) substrate, benzphetamine, undergoes a net decrease in metabolism not counterbalanced by the increase in the efficiency (2-20%) of the reaction. In contrast, in the presence of the slowly metabolized, poorly coupled (≌0.5-3%) substrate, methoxyflurane, inhibition of total NADPH consumption by cyt b5 was never sufficient to overcome the stimulation of product formation due to an increase in efficiency of the reaction.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Histopathology in Dementia, Clinically of Frontotemporal Type

The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography findings in 28 patients with the clinical diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) were compared with the findings in a control group of 76 individuals without dementia or stroke. A pattern of frontal and temporal atrophy with predominantly frontal white matter changes was found in the FTD patients, and this was significantly different from the radiological findings in the control group. Six of the FTD patients have undergone autopsy. Histopathological evaluation showed a primary cortical degenerative disease (frontal lobe degeneration of non-Alzheimer type) in 3 of them, and primary white matter disorder, mainly frontal, of basically ischemic type (selective incomplete white matter infarction) in 3 of them. MRI could be a helpful tool to support the clinical diagnosis FTD, especially in young patients. MRI may also be helpful for the differentiation of a primary neurodegenerative from a mainly ischemic-vascular type of dementia.
Housing Real Estate Sector in Bangladesh Present Status and Policies Implications

The real estate sector is the growth centre for the development of an economy. Bangladesh, being one of the densely populated nations in the world, has been experiencing severe of houses shortage for its citizens. Although majority of the population is segmented into the middle and the low income groups, still housing for all 1 has been a fallacy in Bangladesh. The private sector housing real estate developers have met a small proportion of the national housing demand in the last more than twenty years. The gap between demand and supply is still joy wide. Despite inadequate policy preparations, these real estate developers have been successfully making business although the middle and the low income households are still untapped. With the larger proportion of people living in this income group, the private housing real estate sector has a huge scope to grow in this country. The positive notion is supported by many key indicators such as increasing house rent, inadequate and costly land, easier financing availability and more. To pave the way for the organic development of the industry, the problem of long existent inadequate financing availability at lower burden of terms and costs must have to be removed immediately, and wider scope has to be created for Non -Resident Bangladeshis. With many other issues, this study attempts to identify the current status of the private housing real estate in Bangladesh, presents deeper insights of the critical factors for increasing its coverage, and thus finally recommends some immediate policy measures.
The syndrome of acute encephalitis in children in India: Need for new thinking

Acute encephalitis is the clinical diagnosis of children with acute onset of symptoms and signs of inflammatory lesions in the brain. Changes in sensorium, seizures and upper motor neuron type of altered muscle tone point to cerebral dysfunction. Brain tissue would show the pathology, but at the bedside, inflammation is surmised from pleocytosis of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to predominantly lymphocytes, since the aetiology is mostly non-pyogenic infection1. The clinical picture usually consists of a prodromal phase (one to three days) with fever, malaise and headache and an encephalitic phase with continued fever, decreasing level of consciousness, seizures, abnormal movements or paralysis. Signs of meningeal inflammation are absent or minimal. Many children may succumb, but others recover through a post-encephalitic phase, the fortunate ones more or less completely, but others with sequelae of cognitive deficiencies, muscle paralysis, abnormal movements, etc.
Comparative assessment of 3.3kV/400A SiC MOSFET and Si IGBT power modules

In this paper, a comparative evaluation between a commercial 3.3 kV/400 A Si-IGBT and a 3.3 kV/400 A SiC MOSFET power module in half-bridge configuration is presented. With a constant current of 250 A, a lower forward voltage (VDS) drop of 1.6 V is obtained for SiC MOSFET at 300 K compared to Si IGBT. At 400 A, the difference is reduced to 1.3 V. SiC MOSFET offers an on-state resistance of 8.7 mΩ, and blocking voltage of 3.5 kV at 300 K. Compared to Si-IGBT, a significant lower leakage current for the SiC MOSFET is obtained with varying temperature from 300 K to 400 K. SiC MOSFET offers 7.5 times lower switching losses compared to Si-IGBTs for a supply voltage of 2000 V at 300 K. The switching losses of the SiC MOSFET are not affected by the temperature. Total energy loss increases (3.5 times) linearly with variation of the gate resistance from 6 Ω to 27 Ω. The capability of the SiC MOSFET to withstand short-circuit (SC) events under hard switch fault condition is also investigated. The SiC MOSFET power modules survived short circuit tests performed at a DC-link voltage of 1.5 kV and a pulse duration of 3 μs with a measured short-circuit energy of 6.4 J. The SiC power module failed when the pulse duration was increased to 4 μs, where a short-circuit energy of 9.1 J was obtained. The cause of the failure is the thermal runaway leading to a drain-source short.
Race and Gender Bias in Online Ratings: An Origins Story

The digitization of commerce has provided both a mechanism by which goods and services are exchanged, as well as an efficient way for consumers to voice concerns, in the form of online rating systems. Yet, despite the evidence that online feedback is useful to consumers and can contribute to sales, recent work has begun to uncover biases that manifest during the feedback process. In this work, we build upon research that has identified race and gender biases in online transactions, and probe the mechanisms by which such biases may manifest. Using an experimental methodology, we find little evidence of bias across race and gender when information about historical quality is available. Moreover, in the presence of a high quality experience, we find no differences in ratings based on race or gender. However, when quality is poor, worse ratings accrue for African Americans and females, notably when they are rated by white men, suggesting that bias may manifest because of errors of attribution. the shows rating the final shows three detailed reviews positive narratives when describing a ride experience significantly and strongly correlated with a higher overall rating ( p=.8, p<.0001). These results are confirmed using an OLS regression analysis (results available upon request).
Pheochromocytomas, PASS, and Immunohistochemistry

Differentiation between malignant and benign pheochromocytomas of the adrenal gland traditionally relies on the presence of clinically detectable metastases. The PASS system for differentiating between benign and malignant pheochromocytomas is based on defined morphological criteria, of which some are related to tumour cell proliferation and survival. Immunohistochemical markers for important events in the cell cycle were explored in order to characterise differences in apoptosis, G1 checkpoints, and S phase in more detail. A panel consisting of p53, tenascin, bcl-2, pRb, cyclin D1, mcm2, and p27 was employed. Only for pRb a statistically significant difference between PASS 3 and less and PASS 4+ tumours was detected, indicating qualitative differences in the mitotic cycle, probably immediately before early S phase. These results are discussed in relation to similar studies in recent literature.
On the role of bank staff in online customer purchase

Purpose – This paper reports the findings of the latest, quantitative phase of a continuing study that explores the impact of the internet on bank‐customer relationships. The specific aim is to shed light on customers' own views about when, how and in which circumstances personal contact with bank staff remains appropriate despite developments in online banking.Design/methodology/approach – Building on key elements of the theoretical framework developed in earlier phases of the study and taking methodological leads in the academic literature, a questionnaire was constructed and delivered to 5,000 customers of one UK bank. The usable response rate was just less than ten per cent, delivering almost 500 sets of respondent data, which were analysed by multiple regression.Findings – Motivating and inhibiting influences on interaction with bank staff are identified. Data analysis shows that the more complex the service product offerings, the more customers require reassurance about internet security and the imp.
An exploratory study of grocery shopping stressors

Many factors affect the store patronage decision, e.g. location, service levels, pricing policies, merchandise assortment, store environment and store image, but very little research has considered stress as a determinant. This is despite the increase in dual income families and longer working hours which are making general shopping a more stressful activity for many families because of time pressure and lack of response by retailers. This exploratory research confirms grocery shopping to be stressful, but time pressure was mentioned as only one factor causing shopping stress; other factors included: crowd density, staff attitude and training, store layout/relocation, impulse purchasing pressure, location, product assortment, music, and lighting. The article concludes by proposing a shopping stress curve for future examination.
Analyzing User Awareness of Privacy Data Leak in Mobile Applications

To overcome the resource and computing power limitation of mobile devices in Internet of Things (IoT) era, a cloud computing provides an effective platform without human intervention to build a resource-oriented security solution. However, existing malware detection methods are constrained by a vague situation of information leaks. The main goal of this paper is to measure a degree of hiding intention for the mobile application (app) to keep its leaking activity invisible to the user. For real-world application test, we target Android applications, which unleash user privacy data. With the TaintDroid-ported emulator, we make experiments about the timing distance between user events and privacy leaks. Our experiments with Android apps downloaded from the Google Play show that most of leak cases are driven by user explicit events or implicit user involvement which make the user aware of the leakage. Those findings can assist a malware detection system in reducing the rate of false positive by considering malicious intentions. From the experiment, we understand better about app’s internal operations as well. As a case study, we also presents a cloud-based dynamic analysis framework to perform a traffic monitor.