Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The role of ultrasound evaluation in the detection of early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer.

OBJECTIVE Epithelial ovarian cancer kills more women than all other gynecologic malignancies combined because of our inability to detect early-stage disease. Ultrasonography has demonstrated usefulness in the detection of ovarian cancer in asymptomatic women, but its value for the detection of early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer in women of increased risk is uncertain. We examined the usefulness of sonography in the detection of early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer in asymptomatic high-risk women who participated in the National Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Program. STUDY DESIGN Only asymptomatic women of increased risk for the development of ovarian cancer with initial normal gynecologic and ultrasound examinations were eligible to participate in the institutional review board-approved National Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Program. Participants underwent comprehensive gynecologic and ultrasound examinations every 6 months. Increased risk includes women with at least 1 affected first-degree relative with ovarian cancer; a personal history of breast, ovarian, or colon cancer; > or =1 affected first- and second-degree relatives with breast and or ovarian cancer; inheritance of a breast cancer mutation from an affected family member, or membership within a recognized cancer syndrome. RESULTS The average age of the 4526 women who were evaluated was 46 years; 2610 women were premenopausal, and 1916 women were postmenopausal. A total of 12,709 scans have been performed since 1990. Visualization of both ovaries was noted in 98% of premenopausal and in 94% of postmenopausal women. Fourteen women had undergone unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Recall rates at less than the routine 6-month interval were 0.4% in the premenopausal and 0.3% in postmenopausal women. A total of 98 women with persistent adnexal masses were identified, and 49 invasive surgical procedures were performed that diagnosed 37 benign ovarian tumors and 12 gynecologic malignancies. All cancers were detected in asymptomatic women who had normal ultrasound and physical examinations 12 and 6 months before the cancer diagnosis. The detected malignancies were fallopian tube carcinoma (stage IIIC; n = 4 women), primary peritoneal carcinoma (n = 4 women; stage IIIA, 1 woman; stage IIIB, 2 women; stage IIIC, 1 woman), epithelial ovarian cancer (stages IIIA and IIIB; n = 2 women), and endometrial adenocarcinoma (stage IA; n = 2 women). Additionally 37 primary and 12 recurrent breast carcinomas were detected by physical examination. A total of 184 women with genetic predisposition (breast cancer positive) have undergone a prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy; 23% of these procedures found atypical hyperplasia, and unexpectedly, 2 women (1%) were found to have stage III (A and B) primary peritoneal carcinoma. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates the limited value of diagnostic ultrasound examination as an independent modality for the detection of early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer in asymptomatic women who are at increased risk for disease.
Improved Optimal Decentralized Load Modulation for Power System Primary Frequency Regulation

Nowadays the interest in smart load technologies for primary frequency regulation is spurred due to the increasing penetration of renewable energy resources. In this paper, an improved optimal load control (improved OLC) is introduced by applying a multiobjective optimization-based gain-tuning method to the conventional OLC approach. The objective is to minimize the frequency nadir, time response, steady-state error, total load shed, and aggregated disutility of controllable loads subject to power balance over the network. Simulation results indicate that enabling a multiobjective optimization-based gain-tuning procedure in the OLC approach can provide better power system frequency regulation. Time-domain analysis confirms the superior performance of improved OLC in terms of frequency nadir (Hz), steady-state error (Hz), control effort, and NERC-based performance metrics (MW/0.1 Hz), with detailed load and wind farm models. Furthermore, small-signal analysis demonstrates that the improved OLC enhances the system closed-loop performance and stability margins by increasing the damping ratio of the system's critical modes.
Performance outcomes and success factors of vendor managed inventory (VMI)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to investigate performance outcomes of vendor managed inventory (VMI) from a buyer's perspective and enablers for its successful application.Design/methodology/approach – Structural equation modelling through Partial Least Squares (PLS) is used to identify relationships between four enablers (information systems, information sharing, information quality, and relationship quality), perceived VMI success, and three outcomes (cost reductions, customer service, and supply chain control). Findings – Buyer‐perceived VMI success is impacted by the quality of the buyer‐supplier relationship, the quality of the IT‐system and the intensity of information sharing, but not by the actual quality of the information shared. Furthermore, VMI leads to three performance outcomes: higher customer service levels, improved supply chain control and, to a lesser extent, cost reduction.Research limitations/implications – Although theory stipulates a positive impact of high quality in.
Characterization of the Performance of a Quasi-Optical NbN Superconducting HEB Mixer

In this paper we focus mainly on the investigation of the performance of a quasi-optical (planar log-spiral antenna) phonon-cooled NbN superconducting hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer, which is cryogenically cooled by a close-cycled 4-K cryocooler, at 500 and 850 GHz frequency bands. The mixer's noise performance, stability of IF output power, and local oscillator (LO) power requirement are characterized for three NbN superconducting HEB devices of different sizes. The transmission characteristics of Mylar and Zitex films with incidence waves of an elliptical polarization are also examined by measuring the mixer's noise temperature. The lowest receiver noise temperatures (with no corrections) of 750 and 1100 K are measured at 500 and 850 GHz, respectively. Experimental results also demonstrate that the bigger the HEB device is, the higher the stability of IF output power becomes.
Alcohol Craving and Consumption in Borderline Personality Disorder

Substance use is highly prevalent in our society, and substance use disorders are comorbid with most psychiatric disorders, including borderline personality disorder (BPD). Craving is a fundamental feature of addiction and disorder, yet the contexts in which craving occurs and is associated with substance use is still underresearched. We examined alcohol craving and consumption in a sample of 56 BPD individuals and a comparison group of community drinkers (COM; n = 60) who carried electronic diaries for approximately 21 days. BPD individuals reported more craving than COM individuals in most contexts. Compared with COM individuals, elevated craving in BPD individuals was paralleled by more drinking when at work, at home, and with romantic partners, coworkers, and children. These findings identify contexts of particular relevance to those with BPD and other mood/anxiety disorders in which craving may lead to risky and maladaptive alcohol use.
Customer adoption of e‐service: an experimental study

So far, the term e‐commerce has been primarily associated with communicating the brand and/or enabling sales transactions. However, the next vista for companies operating in the virtual marketplace seems to be e‐service or, delivering value‐added, interactive services to customers. This e‐business function has been left virtually unexplored in the services research literature. In this article, an attempt is made to investigate the impact of organizational reputation, relative advantage, and perceived risk on perceived service quality, trust and behavioral intentions of customers towards adopting e‐services. In the context of an electronic travel service, hypotheses on the relationships between aforementioned variables are investigated by means of an experimental study. The results suggest that the three factors have a significant main effect on the customers’ attitude and behavior towards e‐service. The only exception is that relative advantage does not appear to have a significant impact on customer trust. The results also show that organizational reputation and perceived risk have a combined effect: a good organizational reputation impacts the effect of perceived risk on the three dependent variables. Finally, the three factors appeared to be evenly important in the forming of customers’ attitude and behavior. Again, the only exception is that organizational reputation and perceived risk appear to be more important in terms of trust than relative advantage.
Reproduction: A New Venue for Studying Function of Adult Neurogenesis? 1

Adult neurogenesis has been a focus within the past few years because it is a newly recognized form of neuroplasticity that may play significant roles in behaviors and recovery process after disease. Mammalian adult neurogenesis could be found in two brain regions: hippocampus and subventricular zone (SVZ). While it is well established that hippocampal neurogenesis participates in memory formation and anxiety, the physiological function of SVZ neurogenesis is still under intense investigation. Recent studies disclose that SVZ neurogenesis is under regulation of reproductive cues like pheromones. Reciprocally, the newborn neurons may exert their effect on reproductive and maternal behaviors. This review discusses recent understanding of the interrelationship between neurogenesis and reproduction. The studies highlighted in this review illustrate the potential importance of neurogenesis in reproductive function and will provide new insights for the significance of adult neurogenesis.
Covered Warrant Valuation: A Costly Hedging Model

We provide a new, supply-side explanation for the consistent, statistically signiﬁcant, empirical observation that covered warrant prices are higher than those of corresponding traded options. Covered warrant market-makers, who set prices, are also the issuers and always have net short positions. Their reservation prices for redeeming or issuing more warrants reﬂect the change in their total hedgingrelated costs. For overall net short positions we show both bid and ask reservation prices lie above perfect-market values, since transaction costs increase both issuers’ marginal costs of warrant issuance and the marginal beneﬁts of warrant redemption. The model generates prices and bid-ask spreads consistent with existing empirical evidence and also new testable implications.
Innovation or Multiple Copies of the Same Lottery Ticket: The Effect of Widely Shared Knowledge on Organizational Adaptability

Marketing literature suggests that a market orientation has a positive effect on a firm’s performance and innovativeness. This paper applies biological metapopulation theory to describe how a high dispersion of market information and significant shared homogeneous knowledge may reduce the evolutionary adaptation and the creation of successful new products. Empirical results derived from survey data support the theory that organizational information processing routines associated with a market orientation are not always the same as those required to facilitate organizational adaptability, contrary to previous assertions in the marketing literature.
Marketing mix, service quality and loyalty - in perspective of customer-centric view of balanced scorecard approach

A high level of customer loyalty has been identified as a successful marketing approach enabling firms to become more profitable. When firms retain their customers and build new relationships, they have more marketing capability to meet customer needs and preferences. This newly built relationship affects purchase behaviours positively and retains customers committed to repurchasing. The purpose of this study is to borrow the customer-centric view of the balanced scorecard approach to investigate several interconnected relationships such as marketing mix, service quality and customer loyalty. Utilising multi-source samples consisting of 200 customers from four large retail chain stores, as well as the multi-regression approach and Sobel test, the study ensued in providing suggestion that there is a significant mediator effect of customer service quality in the interconnected relationship between marketing mix and customer loyalty. The finding provides important information for retail chain stores that need to promote customer service quality as a vital practice for customer retention.
Customer Knowledge Development: Antecedents and Impact on New Product Performance

By enhancing the fit between new product features and customer preferences, the customer knowledge development process fosters new product success. Despite this significant benefit, there is considerable variance in the extent to which firms engage in this process in their new product development projects. This is because not all firms can meet the resource, strategic flexibility, and motivational requirements of the process. In this research, the authors develop a nomological network wherein they identify (1) the organizational actions that enable effective implementation of the customer knowledge development process, (2) the characteristics of new product development projects that moderate the effects of these actions, and (3) the outcomes that are generated by the process. The results from a survey of 165 marketing managers who had recently participated in new product development projects provide substantial support for the nomological network. The authors explore the theoretical and managerial implications that arise from their results and provide future research directions.
The effect of corporate associations on consumer behaviour

Purpose – In the present paper, the authors aim to study the relationship between corporate associations and loyalty by analyzing the role of identification with the company and satisfaction in this connection.Design/methodology/approach – The effects of corporate associations on consumers' loyalty were tested through a structural equation model for a sample of 781 financial services users.Findings – The results confirm the value of commercial expertise (CE) as one of the most important determinants of both consumer satisfaction and identification with their financial services provider. Besides, corporate social responsibility (CSR) contributes to building consumer identification with the company, which is positively correlated to satisfaction too. Satisfaction is thus presented as both an affective and cognitive consumer response in the financial industry, which, along with identification, finally determines the attitudinal loyalty a consumer shows towards their provider.Originality/value – With this stu.
ORAL‐MOTOR DYSFUNCTION AND FAILURE TO THRIVE AMONG INNER‐CITY INFANTS

Non‐organic failure to thrive among socio‐economically deprived inner‐city infants may be associated with abnormal oral‐motor functioning and aspects of social adversity, such as disorganised mealtimes. A Feeding Assessment Schedule was devised to rate oral‐motor behaviour objectively and was used to test nine pairs of case and comparison children while they were being fed at home. Video‐recordings were made for later analysis. The case infants had immature and abnormal oral‐motor development that made them less able to be fed successfully. Temperamentally they were more ‘difficult’ than the comparison infants, and they were less adept at signalling their needs during meal‐times. The case infants also were fed in inappropriate positions for their age, with more distractions and less suitable utensils.
An Empirical Observation of Age Factor’s Moderating Role on Mobile Banking Adoption in Rural Karnataka

Mobile banking can be the best tool for government of India to achieve success in financial inclusion given the fact that there is high penetration of mobile phones in India. It is a challenge to achieve success without having a clue of rural people‘s take on benefits, learning capability, attitude, and social influences of a technology. An attempt of determining the factors that affect adoption of mobile banking service was made by searching and short listing important factors from literature review by subjecting them to reliability and EFA (Exploratory Factor Analysis). Rural regions in the state of Karnataka were surveyed. Double sampling technique was used to reach the sample size of 957. Collected data was subjected to regression analysis and interaction-moderation analysis through SPSS-AMOS. The interaction relationship in the model was supported by attitude‘s path towards behavioural intention that was moderated by age. An interaction plot showing moderation behaviour of age was achieved.
Human monocytes activated by immunomodulators in liposomes lyse herpesvirus-infected but not normal cells.

Highly purified peripheral blood monocytes from normal human donors were activated in vitro by incubation with liposomes containing immunomodulators such as recombinant human gamma interferon, human lymphokines, or muramyl dipeptide. The ability of liposomes containing immunomodulators to activate monocytes to a cytotoxic state capable of discriminating between virus-infected and uninfected cells was shown by activated monocytes recognizing and destroying herpes simplex virus type 2-infected cells while leaving uninfected cells unharmed .
Linking the hierarchical service quality model to customer satisfaction and loyalty

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reassess the properties of the hierarchical service quality model (HSQM) – a previously introduced service quality assessment tool. The HSQM views service quality as a three‐tiered concept with interaction quality, outcome quality, and physical environment quality as initial sub‐dimensions. The study aims to apply HSQM to two new service contexts and to further investigate the relationship between service quality, as measured by this instrument, and satisfaction and customer loyalty. To this end, five hypotheses are to be submitted to empirical tests.Design/methodology/approach – The data for empirically re‐assessing the scale's properties and for testing the proposed hypotheses were collected from convenience samples of 250 customers of hairdresser/barber services and 300 customers of local phone service subscribers. The measurement model of the HSQM was re‐assessed using confirmatory factor analysis. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling.
PREDICTING CONSUMER INTENTIONS TO SHOP HERBAL PRODUCTS ONLINE: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

The burgeoning market for herbal products in Malaysia along with government support and access to cheaper production methods has led to the production of more and more local herbal products by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). However in contrast to the imported products brought in by large importers, the local SMEs have limited capital and resources with which to market and distribute their products, often competing for limited shelf space in stores. The similarly increasing internet use in Malaysia provides a potential solution to this problem. Hence this study sets out to identify the factors which can be used to predict a consumers’ intention to buy an herbal product online using a binary logistic regression model based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour framework. A structured selfadministered questionnaire was distributed via email to internet users residing in Peninsular Malaysia. A total of 1063 users completed the questionnaire. The collected data was then analysed for demographic characteristics and TPB-based factors identified beforehand. The factors which have been found significant in predicting the intention of an average Malaysian to shop online for an herbal product are: Age, Gender, Marital Status, Income, Internet Speed and Experience, Herbal Products Characteristics, Perceived Benefits, Subjective Norm, Payment Method and English Proficiency. The results of the logistic regression model hint that by taking steps such as widening payment options, providing English and Malay version of websites, and gaining good safety and health certifications, among other factors, SMEs could increase the likelihood of consumers to purchase herbal products online.
MANAGEMENT INNOVATIVENESS: A CASE OF SLOVENIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

Vojko Potocan Department of Organization and Informatics Faculty of Economics and Business University of Maribor Razlagova 14, 2000 Maribor Slovenia Tel. : +386 2 22 90 255 Fax: +386 2 25 16 681 E-mail: vojko.potocan@uni-mb.si Zlatko Nedelko Department of Organization and Informatics Faculty of Economics and Business University of Maribor Razlagova 14, 2000 Maribor Slovenia Tel. : +386 2 22 90 131 Fax: +386 2 25 16 681 E-mail: zlatko.nedelko@uni-mb.si
Nonlinear Analysis in the Aw-Rascle Anticipation Model of Traffic Flow

In this paper, the Aw–Rascle anticipation (ARA) model is discussed from the perspective of the capability to reproduce nonlinear traffic flow behaviors observed in real traffic. For this purpose, a nonlinear traffic flow stability criterion is derived by using a wavefront expansion technique. The result of the nonlinear stability analysis can be used not only to judge the stability evolution of an initial traffic state but also to determine the pressure term in the ARA model. The KdV equation is derived from the ARA model added by the viscous term with the use of the reduction perturbation method. The soliton solution can be analytically obtained from the perturbed KdV equation only near the neutral stability line. Weighted essentially nonoscillatory schemes are employed to simulate the KdV soliton. The numerical results confirm the analytical KdV soliton solution.
Celebrity Endorsements and Its Impact on Consumer Buying Behavior - In Context to India

The practice of celebrity endorsements has proliferated over time. Now days it has become a pervasive element of advertising industry especially in India. Celebrity endorsement business has become a multi-million industry in India. Marketers use celebrity endorsers to influence the purchase decision of consumers in order to increase their sales and extend their market shares. This made the author curious to explore the impact of celebrity endorsements on consumer buying behaviour.This dissertation focuses on examining the perception of Indian consumers about celebrity endorsements, examining the celebrity attributes likely to influence consumer purchase intentions and finally the impact of celebrity endorsements on their purchase intention.This project begins with the review of existing literature available on celebrity endorsements, which provides an insight into the research topic and clarifies many important aspects related to the subject. A quantitative method is used for this research project to investigate the perceptions of the consumer, attributes and its subsequent impact on purchase intention. The data is collected through a questionnaire and later analysed using the data analysis software program SPSS.It was proven in this research that consumers find celebrity endorsements more attractive and influential as compared to non-celebrity endorsements. Moreover, the tested attributes show positive relationship with purchase intention. In other terms, celebrity attributes do impact the purchase intention of consumers. Finally, the results of the study prove that celebrity endorsements positively impact the purchase intention of the consumers.