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The Determinants and Interest on Mobile Commerce Adoption among East Coast Entrepreneurs in Malaysia

Mobile commerce among rural entrepreneurs is still in the infancy stage. This study investigates the determinants and interest of mobile commerce usage among east coast entrepreneurs in Malaysia regarding purchase and sale activities. A questionnaire was adopted and adapted from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and previous empirical studies. 400 questionnaires were distributed through online and face-to-face survey methods for the east coast entrepreneurs in Malaysia. The purposive and snowball sampling method was applied in this study. 360 samples were subsequently analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression analysis aided by SPSS 26.0. The study found that social influence was the most significant factor in mobile commerce utilisation among east coast entrepreneurs in Malaysia. About 71.1% of east coast entrepreneurs in Malaysia were interested in mobile commerce in expanding their business network at least once a month. It highlighted that the mobile commerce adoption has good attention from east coast entrepreneurs in Malaysia. The finding obtained that the east coast entrepreneurs in Malaysia were ready for implementing mobile commerce in their business activities. Hence, it added significantly to bridging the knowledge gap concerning the infancy rate of mobile commerce usage among rural entrepreneurs. This empirical study provides significant input to all stakeholders, including government, relevant stakeholders (e.g. entrepreneurs, supply chain industry, telecommunications industry, and ICT industry), and local communities to strategise further initiative mainly for society, economic and country development.
PRODUCTION OF LACTIC ACID ON LIQUID DISTILLERY STILLAGE

PRODUCTION OF LACTIC ACID ON LIQUID DISTILLERY STILLAGE PROIZVODNJA MLEČNE KISELINE NA TEČNOJ DESTILERIJSKOJ DŽIBRI Ljiljana MOJOVIĆ, Maja VUKAŠINOVIĆ-SEKULIĆ, Aleksandra ĐUKIĆ, Dušanka PEJIN, Marica RAKIN, Jelena PEJIN , Svetlana NIKOLIĆ Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, 11120 Beograd, Serbia, Faulty of Technology,, University of Novi Sad, Bulevar cara Lazara 1, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia e-mal: lmojovic@tmf.bg. ac.rs
Generationin T Cell Proliferation and Memory Differing Roles of Inflammation and Antigen

Recent studies have demonstrated that viral and bacterial infections can induce dramatic in vivo expansion of Ag-speciﬁc T lymphocytes. Although presentation of Ag is critical for activation of naive T cells, it is less clear how dependent subsequent in vivo T cell proliferation and memory generation are upon Ag. We investigated T cell expansion and memory generation in mice infected alternately with strains of Listeria monocytogenes that contained or lacked an immunodominant, MHC class I-restricted T cell epitope. We found substantial differences in the responses of effector and memory T cells to inﬂammatory stimuli. Although effector T cells undergo in vivo expansion in response to bacterial infection in the absence of Ag, memory T cells show no evidence for such bystander activation. However, Ag-independent expansion of effector T cells does not result in increased memory T cell frequencies, indicating that Ag presentation is critical for effective memory T cell generation. Early reinfection of mice with L. monocytogenes before the maximal primary T cell response induces typical memory expansion, suggesting that the capacity for a memory T cell response exists within the primary effector population. Our ﬁndings demonstrate that T cell effector proliferation and memory generation are temporally overlapping processes with differing requirements for Ag. The Journal of Immunology, 2000, 164: 4063–4070. Flow cytometry was performed using a FACSCalibur, collecting 200,000 CD8 1 events; data were further analyzed with CellQuest software (Becton Dickinson, Mountain View, CA). The following mAbs were used (all ob- tained from PharMingen): CyChrome-conjugated anti-CD8 a (clone 53-6.7) and FITC-conjugated anti-CD62L (clone MEL-14).
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Ying Zhang* Li-Rong Liang * Shu Zhang 1 Yong Lu Yang-Yu Chen Huan-Zhong Shi Ying-Xiang Lin 1Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine and Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, People’s Republic of China; 2Clinical Epidemiology and Tobacco Dependence Treatment Research Department, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing ChaoYangHospital,CapitalMedicalUniversity, Beijing 100020, People’s Republic of China
Flights From Wonder

C arotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid artery stenting (CAS) can be considered for patients with carotid artery bifurcation disease on optimized medical therapy who have been determined to require additional treatment. In CREST (Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy versus Stenting Trial), the largest, most rigorous trial comparing these 2 strategies in both symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects, there were no differences in the primary endpoint of death, stroke, and myocardial infarction at 30 days plus ipsilateral stroke to 4 years (2). Subsequently, efforts have been made to analyze the trial’s data to gain a better understanding of the comparative early safety of these therapies (3,4); the long-term data on death, stroke prevention, and need for repeat revascularization are indistinguishable. However, efforts at stratification or constructing predictors of the 30-day outcomes of CEA and CAS according to clinical or procedural characteristics are confounded by 1 simple, unassailable fact: the number of outcome events in carotid intervention is too small to achieve statistical significance in most cases. For example, in the intention-to-treat analysis of the 2,502 randomized CREST subjects, a total of 79 periprocedural stroke events occurred, and in the only group in which there were differences between the therapies (the minor ipsilateral events), there
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In most event-related potential (ERP) studies on the second language (L2) processing, the native speaker (L1) control group’s grand average ERP pattern serves as the ‘gold standard’ that the L2 group has to reach to be labeled ‘native-like’. This relies on the assumption that the grand average is representative of all or most individuals in a group. Recent research, however, has shown that there can be considerable systematic qualitative variability between individuals even in coherent L1 samples, especially in studies on morphosyntactic processing. We discuss how these qualitative individual differences can undermine previous findings from the gold standard paradigm, and critically assess the main ERP components used as markers for nativelike grammatical processing, namely the left-anterior negativity and the P600. We argue that qualitative variation reflects the dynamics characteristic of nativelike grammatical processing and propose a model for experimental designs that can capture these processing dynamics and, thereby, has the potential to provide a more fine-grained understanding of nativelike attainment in an L2.
Corrosion Inhibition of Aluminium with A Series of Aniline Monomeric Surfactant and Their Analogues Polymers in 0.5 M HCl Solution Part І: 3-(6- Sodiumsulfonate hexayloxy) Aniline Monomeric Surfactant (MC6) and Its Analogues Polymer

HE INHIBITION effect of 3-(6sodiumsulfonate hexayloxy) . aniline monomeric surfactant (MC6) and the analogues polymer poly 3-(hexayloxy sulphonic acid) aniline (PC6) on the corrosion of aluminium in 0.5 M HCl solution was investigated with weight loss and potentiodynamic polarization techniques. The results show that the inhibition occurred through the adsorption of inhibitor molecules on the metal surface. The inhibition efficiency was found to increase with increasing of inhibitor concentration and decrease with increasing temperature. It was found that these inhibitors acted as mixed–type inhibitors with anodic predominance. The adsorption of these compounds on the metal surface obeyed the Langmuir and Frumkin adsorption isotherms. Thermodynamic functions for both the dissolution and adsorption processes were determined. The obtained results from weight loss and potentiodynamic polarization techniques are in good agreement.
Attitudes of Muslims and Christians Community of Pakistan Towards Euthanasia: A Cross Religion Study

Received: August 17, 2021 This study investigated the attitudes of Muslims and Christian community of Pakistan towards euthanasia.This research wants to see differences in attitude towards euthanasia interm of gender among Pakistani public. Results of the study revealed that the Christians has more tolerating attitude towards euthanasia as compared to Muslims of Pakistani community. The findings also showed that gender is significant moderator between religion and attitude towards euthanasia in Pakistani society. The results of the study will be helpfulin legislation on euthanasia in Pakistan.This study will provide insight and indigenous perspective of Pakistani society. Accepted: March 18, 2022
Novel Receptor Independent Mechanism: Evidence for a - (PAF) and LysoPAF via a PAF-Receptor in Response to Platelet-Activating Factor Mouse and Human Eosinophils Degranulate

Platelet-activating factor (PAF [1- O -alkyl-2-acetyl- sn -glycero-3-phosphocholine]) is a phospholipid mediator released from activated macrophages, mast cells, and basophils that promotes pathophysiologic inﬂammation. Eosinophil responses to PAF are complex and incompletely elucidated. We show in this article that PAF and its 2-deacetylated metabolite (lysoPAF) promote degranulation (release of eosinophil peroxidase) via a mechanism that is independent of the characterized PAFR. Speciﬁcally, we demonstrate that receptor antagonists CV-3988 and WEB-2086 and pertussis toxin have no impact on PAF- or lysoPAF-mediated degranulation. Furthermore, cultured mouse eosinophils from PAFR 2 / 2 bone marrow progenitors degranulate in response to PAF and lysoPAF in a manner indistinguishable from their wild-type counterparts. In addition to PAF and lysoPAF, human eosinophils degranulate in response to lysophosphatidylcholine, but not phosphatidylcholine, lysophosphatidylethanolamine, or phosphatidylethanolamine, demonstrating selective responses to phospholipids with a choline head-group and minimal substitution at the sn-2 hydroxyl. Human eosinophils release preformed cytokines in response to PAF, but not lysoPAF, also via a PAFR-independent mechanism. Mouse eosinophils do not release cytokines in response to PAF or lysoPAF, but they are capable of doing so in response to IL-6. Overall, our work provides the ﬁrst direct evidence for a role for PAF in activating and inducing degranulation of mouse eosinophils, a crucial feature for the interpretation of mouse models of PAF-mediated asthma and anaphylaxis. Likewise, we document and deﬁne PAF and lysoPAF-mediated activities that are not dependent on signaling via PAFR, suggesting the existence of other unexplored molecular signaling pathways mediating responses from PAF, lysoPAF, and closely related phospholipid mediators. The Journal of Immunology , 2010, 184: 000–000.
Inter-Comparison of Particle and Gaseous Pollutant Emissions of a Euro 4 Motorcycle at Two Laboratories

The Euro 4 regulation, applicable since 2016 for L-category vehicles (i.e., two and threewheelers, and mini cars) reduced the emission limits, but also introduced a new cycle, the WMTC (World Harmonized Motorcycle Test Cycle). The emission studies of Euro 4 motorcycles are limited, and most importantly there are no published studies comparing the results of different laboratories applying the new cycle. In this study we compared the particle and gaseous pollutants of one Euro 4 motorcycle measured in two laboratories in 2017 and 2020. The gaseous pollutant results had a variance (one standard deviation of the means) of 0.5% for CO2, 4–19% for CO, NOx, HC (hydrocarbons) and SPN (Solid Particle Number). The particulate matter mass results had higher variance of 50–60%. Additional tests with open configuration to mimic dilution at the tailpipe gave equivalent results to the closed configuration for the gaseous pollutants and SPN. The total particles (including volatiles) had significant differences between the two configurations, with the closed configuration giving higher results. The main conclusion of this study is that the new procedures have very good reproducibility, even for the SPN that is not regulated for L-category vehicles. However, the measurement of total particles needs attention due to the high sensitivity of volatile particles to the sampling conditions.
Peak Flows and Stormwater Networks Design—Current and Future Management of Urban Surface Watersheds

Abstract: Stormwater urban drainage systems are typically designed in open channel flow. Pipe sewers must have enough capacity to transport maximum design flows for a given frequency of the project rainfall. The classic rational method or related procedures that are based on rational approaches are still currently used to a great extent, particularly for small urban drainage basins, and the pipes are frequently designed in uniform steady flow. Numerical integration of Saint-Venant equations for one-dimensional gradually varied unsteady flow allows the computation of waves’ progression along the pipes for given input surface hydrographs. This paper presents a comprehensive, systematic, simple, and original comparison between the peak flows that are achieved through simulation in unsteady flow using an implicit complete dynamic model, developed in the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment of Coimbra University, and those that are obtained with the classic rational method along urban drainage networks. Boundary conditions and some approximations typically considered in the methodologies are analyzed in detail. Classic rational approaches may underestimate the peak and design flows. Practical recommendations for the system design phase when rational approaches are used are also proposed. The need for indispensable requirements for suitable urbanization rules, intelligent management of surface runoff in urban basins, and control measures for the reduction of peak flows entering existing networks is confirmed and reinforced.
Temperature determines the diversity and structure of N<sub>2</sub>Oâ•’reducing microbial assemblages

1Environmental Microbiomics Research Center and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; 2Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; 3State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China; 4Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology and State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou, China; 5Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; 6School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; 7School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; 8College of Agriculture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China; 9Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA; 10CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 11University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 12Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China; 13Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA and 14School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Complete Genome Sequence of an Aerobic Thermoacidophilic Crenarchaeon, Sulfolobus tokodaii strain7

The complete genomic sequence of an aerobic thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon, Sulfolobus tokodaii strain7 which optimally grows at 80◦C, at low pH, and under aerobic conditions, has been determined by the whole genome shotgun method with slight modifications. The genomic size was 2,694,756 bp long and the G+C content was 32.8%. The following RNA-coding genes were identified: a single 16S–23S rRNA cluster, one 5S rRNA gene and 46 tRNA genes (including 24 intron-containing tRNA genes). The repetitive sequences identified were SR-type repetitive sequences, long dispersed-type repetitive sequences and Tn-like repetitive elements. The genome contained 2826 potential protein-coding regions (open reading frames, ORFs). By similarity search against public databases, 911 (32.2%) ORFs were related to functional assigned genes, 921 (32.6%) were related to conserved ORFs of unknown function, 145 (5.1%) contained some motifs, and remaining 849 (30.0%) did not show any significant similarity to the registered sequences. The ORFs with functional assignments included the candidate genes involved in sulfide metabolism, the TCA cycle and the respiratory chain. Sequence comparison provided evidence suggesting the integration of plasmid, rearrangement of genomic structure, and duplication of genomic regions that may be responsible for the larger genomic size of the S. tokodaii strain7 genome. The genome contained eukaryote-type genes which were not identified in other archaea and lacked the CCA sequence in the tRNA genes. The result suggests that this strain is closer to eukaryotes among the archaea strains so far sequenced. The data presented in this paper are also available on the internet homepage (http://www.bio.nite.go.jp/ E-home/genome list-e.html/).
Understanding Cross-Product Purchasing Intentions in an IT Brand Extension Context

This study investigates why some customers of a brand tend to purchase IT products launched by the same brand in a different category, but others do not. Combining insights from marketing and information systems research, we develop an integrative model of cross-category purchases of IT products in a brand extension context. We extend the IS continuance model by integrating brand extension factors such as perceived fit into the new model. Our model is empirically tested using data collected from 342 Xiaomi customers. The results show that in addition to post-acceptance usefulness perceptions and brand satisfaction, the perceived service quality and perceived fit of the initial purchase also have strong effects on consumers’ continuance purchase intentions toward a brand extension product. Hedonic and utilitarian expectancy mediate the relationship between consumers’ post-consumption views of the initial purchase and their intention of the subsequent purchase of a different product under the same brand.
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Kaul, Dhananjaya K. , Xiao-Du Liu, Mary E. Fabry, and Ronald L. Nagel. Impaired nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation in transgenic sickle mouse. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 278: H1799–H1806, 2000. —Transgenic sickle mice expressing human bSand bS-Antilles-globins show intravascular sickling, red blood cell adhesion, and attenuated arteriolar constriction in response to oxygen. We hypothesize that these abnormalities and the likely endothelial damage, also reported in sickle cell anemia, alter nitric oxide (NO)-mediated microvascular responses and hemodynamics in this mouse model. Transgenic mice showed a lower mean arterial pressure (MAP) compared with control groups (90 6 7 vs. 113 6 8 mmHg, P , 0.00001), accompanied by increased endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) expression. NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), a nonselective inhibitor of NOS, caused an ,30% increase in MAP and ,40% decrease in the diameters of cremaster muscle arterioles (branching orders: A2 and A3) in both control and transgenic mice, confirming NOS activity; these changes were reversible after L-arginine administration. Aminoguanidine, an inhibitor of inducible NOS, had no effect. Transgenic mice showed a decreased (P , 0.02–0.01) arteriolar dilation in response to NO-mediated vasodilators, i.e., ACh and sodium nitroprusside (SNP). Indomethacin did not alter the responses to ACh and SNP. Forskolin, a cAMP-activating agent, caused a comparable dilation of A2 and A3 vessels (,44 and 70%) in both groups of mice. Thus in transgenic mice, an increased eNOS/NO activity results in lower blood pressure and diminished arteriolar responses to NO-mediated vasodilators. Although the increased NOS/NO activity may compensate for flow abnormalities, it may also cause pathophysiological alterations in vascular tone.
Assessment of pan coefficient models for the estimation of the reference evapotranspiration in a Mediterranean environment in Turkey

Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is essential for irrigation practices and the management of water resources and plays a vital role in agricultural and hydro-meteorological studies. The FAO-56 Penman-Monteith (PM) equation, recommended as the sole standard method of calculating ETo by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is the most commonly used and accurate model to determine the ETo and evaluate ETo equations. However, it requires many meteorological variables, often restricting its applicability in regions with poor or missing meteorological observations. Many empirical and semi-empirical equations have been developed to predict the ET0 from numerous meteorological data. The FAO-24 Pan method is commonly used worldwide to estimate ETo because it is simple and requires only pan coefficients. However, pan coefficients (Kpan) should be determined accurately to estimate ET0 using the FAO-24 Pan method. As the accuracy and reliability of the Kpan models can be different from one location to another, they should be tested or calibrated for different climates and surrounding conditions. In this study, the performance of the eight Kpan models was evaluated using 22-year daily climate data for the summer growing season in Adana, which has a Mediterranean climate in Turkey. The results showed that the mean seasonal pan coefficients estimated by all Kpan models differed significantly at a 1% significance level from those observed by FAO-56 PM according to the two-tail z test. In the study, ETo values estimated by Kpan models were compared against those obtained by the FAO-56 PM equation. The seasonal and monthly performance of Kpan models was varied, and the Wahed & Snyder model presented the best performance for ETo estimates at the seasonal scale. (RMSE = 0.550 mm d−1; MAE = 0.425 mm d−1; MBE = −0.378 mm d−1; RE = 0.134). In addition, it showed a good performance in estimating ETo on a monthly scale. The Orang model showed the lowest performance in estimating ETo among all models, with a very high relative error on the seasonal scale. (RMSE = 1.867 mm d−1; MAE = 1.806 mm d−1; MBE = −1.806 mm d−1; RE = 0.455). In addition, it showed the poorest performance on a monthly scale. Hence, the Wahed & Snyder model can be considered to estimate ETo under Adana region conditions after doing the necessary calibration.