Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mediation Effect of Technology Adaptation Capabilities Between the Relationship of Service Quality Attributes and Customer Satisfaction: An Investigation on Young Customers Perceptions Toward E-Commerce in China

The connection between consumer satisfaction and service quality may be quite researched in academia. Pertinently, we argue that there is a gap of the contribution of “technology adaptation capabilities (TAC)” in this relationship. Hence, objective of this empirical paper is to reveal the impacts of service quality on young customers’ satisfaction toward e-commerce in china, considering the mediating effect of technology adaptation capabilities. The independent factor, service quality was measured through SERVQUAL model including its five indicators: Tangibility (TAN), Reliability (REL), Responsiveness (RES), Assurance (ASR) and Empathy (EMP). Moreover, customer satisfaction is a notable concern for the organizations to exist and growth. Likewise, prior contemporary research also suggested a requirement for more empirical investigations on the current association. However, hypotheses in this present study are formulated based on the literature, and to the hypotheses, data were collected from 387 young e-commerce users from different cities in China used judgmental sampling method. For analyzing the data structural equation (PLM-SEM) model have been utilized. The result shows that all five indicators contribute to customer satisfaction. Additionally, with the mediation of technology adaptation capabilities, all factors have significant effects on customer satisfaction. This research intended to contribute to the researchers, professionals, investors, executives, and other stakeholders by broadening the profound insights on e-commerce.
On ecological protection, ecological construction and sustainable development of south Gansu plateau

Located in the southwest of Gansu province and the eastern edge of Qinhai Tibetan plateau, south Gansu (Gannan) plateau is a unique geographic unit of Gansu province, and has very important ecological status. With the increase of population, the development of livestock husbandry, the global warming, and the lack of protection and construction of the meadow ecosystem, a number of serious eco environmental problems have occurred in recent years. The serious and speedy degradation of the meadow ecosystem has a greatly harmful effect on the socioeconomic sustainable development of this area and even the watersheds of the Yangze and the Yellow rivers. It is very urgent to protect and construct the meadow ecosystem of this region. The authors put forward some measurements and advices for the protection and construction of the meadow ecosystem and its sustainable development of south Gansu plateau.
Fenugreek Seed Ethanolic Extract Improves Alveolar Bone Parameters by Attenuating Inflammation in Ovariectomized Rats

Introduction Alveolar bone residual ridge resorption remains a major challenge for dental implant placement in patients with edentulism. Fenugreek seed extracts have been reported to have potential roles in bone metabolism. Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the effects of fenugreek seed ethanolic extract (FSEE) on bone cells, inflammation, hormones, and angiogenesis parameters of alveolar bone tissue following teeth extraction in an ovariectomized (OVX) model. Methods A total of 30 adults female Wistar rats were assigned into two major groups. Each group consisted of control, OVX, OVX+FSEE 100 mg/kg BW, OVX+FSEE 200 mg/kg BW, and OVX+FSEE 400 mg/kg BW. The FSEE treatment was applied through the intragastric route for 7 days in the first group and for 30 days in the second group of animals. The first molar tooth of the right maxilla was extracted before the FSEE treatment. The level of 17β-estradiol was measured by the ELISA method. The dissected maxilla alveolar bone processus was sectioned for histological evaluation by hematoxylin–eosin staining and an immunohistochemistry assay. Results This study found that FSEE reduced the blood estrogen level and increased estrogen receptor-α (ER-α) expression. FSEE administration modified the number of bone cells, angiogenesis, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), sclerostin, and the osteoprotegerin/receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-β ligand (OPG/RANKL) ratio. Alterations were seen in the inflammatory markers interleukin-6 (IL-6), transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), and the macrophage-1/macrophage-2 (M1/M2) ratio. Conclusion In this study, inflammation was found to be attenuated by reductions in IL-6 and sclerostin, and an increase in TGF-β1. The maturation of bone osteocytes increased along with the increase in ER-α expression and ratio of OPG/RANKL.
Viscosity of liquid anorthite

The viscosity of liquid anorthite has been determined over the temperature ranges between 1450°–1620°C and 820°–950°C. The high-temperature data agree well with previous experimental data and with predictions of the Bottinga and Weill model. The overall log (viscosity) versus 1/T relation exhibits pronounced and rather continuous curvature. The viscosity of anorthite is higher at any given temperature and more strongly temperature dependent than that of the anorthite-rich lunar compositions 14259, 14310, and 15418. The room temperature density of glassy anorthite (2.64 gm cm−3) and the thermal expansion coefficients of glassy and liquid anorthite have also been determined. The volume expansion coefficient for the glass is ∼1.8 × 10−5 °C−1, and that for the liquid is ∼4.8 × 10−5 °C−1. These values are used to relate the high-temperature flow data to the predictions of free volume theories.
Linearity and nonlinearity of silicon photodiodes for accurate absolute optical flux measurements: a review

The accurate evaluation of linearity for an Si photodiode (PD) with respect to the incident optical flux is of great importance to determine a highly accurate range for the absolute optical flux that is more than six orders of magnitude. As such, various evaluation methods of linearity and nonlinearity have been proposed, and their feasibilities have been demonstrated. These methods can cover the flux range more than six orders of magnitude and the wavelength regions from ultraviolet to near-infrared, which are comprised in an Si PD. This paper describes previous accurate nonlinearity evaluation systems, experimentally measured nonlinearity results and their numerical analyses. The findings of this study could contribute to the accurate absolute optical flux measurements by using Si PDs.
Chief Kerry's moose :a guidebook to land use and occupancy mapping, research design, and data collection

Aboriginal peoples in Canada have been mapping aspects of their cultures for more than a generation. Indians, Inuit, Metis, non-status Indians and others have called their maps by different names at various times and places: land use and occupancy; land occupancy and use; traditional use; traditional land use and occupancy; current use; cultural sensitive areas; and so on. I use “land use and occupancy mapping” in a generic sense to include all the above. The term refers to the collection of interview data about traditional use of resources and occupancy of lands by First Nation persons, and the presentation of those data in map form. Think of it as the geography of oral tradition, or as the mapping of cultural and resource geography. (PDF contains 81 pages.)
Fifty years of New Zealand Economic Papers: 1966 to 2015

ABSTRACT New Zealand Economic Papers was launched in 1966, seven years after the New Zealand Association of Economists was established. This paper discusses the journal's development including challenges of establishing and editing it. We examine the nature of the contributions, the contributors, their origins, and the gender distribution of authors. We assess whether the growth in joint authorship evident in other fields of research is displayed in NZEP. We also examine how research has evolved over the life of the journal. The evolution of the content of the journal is related to economic developments and events in New Zealand and globally, and to developments in the economics profession. The journal continues to reflect contemporary New Zealand issues, which was one of the original aims of establishing the journal. It also displays an increasing use of theoretical and empirical techniques, joint authorship and contributions from overseas authors.
The Racializing Work of Cultural Narratives: An Analysis of Colorblind Frames of Puerto Rican Climate Migrants

Using narrative analysis, this article examines the relationship between coloniality and racializing characterizations of Puerto Ricans, on the one hand, and taken-for-granted formula stories about U.S. national identity and morality, on the other. Our analysis draws from two data sets: 21 newspaper articles published in a Florida newspaper in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria about the needs and conditions of climate migrants from Puerto Rico and 54 interviews with Puerto Rican climate migrants who relocated to Florida after the hurricane struck the archipelago in 2017. This multilevel analysis explores prevailing colorblind racism frames that circulate across levels of social life embedded in stories that appeal to cultural ways of thinking and feeling about the world. Our findings show how colorblind frames in broadly shared narratives can reinforce racial scripts and perpetuate ethnoracial inequality. They also show that the broad circulation of such narratives at cultural, institutional, and interpersonal levels renders the racialization process less discernible.
Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone

The eastern California shear zone is an important component of the Pacifi c–North America plate boundary. This region of active, predominantly strike-slip, deformation east of the San Andreas fault extends from the southern Mojave Desert along the east side of the Sierra Nevada and into western Nevada. The eastern California shear zone is thought to accommodate nearly a quarter of relative plate motion between the Pacific and North America plates. Recent studies in the region, utilizing innovative methods ranging from cosmogenic nuclide geochronology, airborne laser swath mapping, and ground penetrating radar to geologic mapping, geochemistry, and U-Pb, 40Ar/39Ar, and (U-Th)/He geochronology, are helping elucidate slip rate and displacement histories for many of the major structures that comprise the eastern California shear zone. This fi eld trip includes twelve stops along the Lenwood, Garlock, Owens Valley, and Fish Lake Valley faults, which are some of the primary focus areas for new research. Trip participants will explore a rich record of the spatial and temporal evolution of the eastern California shear zone from 83 Ma to the late Holocene through observations of offset alluvial deposits, lava fl ows, key stratigraphic markers, and igneous intrusions, all of which are deformed as a result of recurring seismic activity. Discussion will focus on the constancy (or non-constancy) of strain accumulation and release, the function of the Garlock fault in accommodating deformation in the region, total cumulative displacement and timing of offset on faults, the various techniques used to determine fault displacements and slip rates, and the role of the eastern California shear zone as a nascent segment of the Pacifi c–North America plate boundary.
Central Role of Nitrogen Fertilizer Relative to Water Management in Determining Direct Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Global Rice‐Based Ecosystems

The increasing atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O) concentration stems from the development of agriculture. However, N2O emissions from global rice‐based ecosystems have not been explicitly and systematically quantified. Therefore, this study aims to estimate the spatiotemporal magnitudes of the N2O emissions from global rice‐based ecosystems and determine different contribution factors by improving a process‐based biogeochemical model, TRIPLEX‐GHG v2.0. Model validation suggested that the modeled N2O agreed well with field observations under varying management practices at daily, seasonal, and annual steps. Simulated N2O emissions from global rice‐based ecosystems exhibited significant increasing trends from 0.026 ± 0.0013 to 0.18 ± 0.003 TgN yr−1 from 1910 to 2020, with ∼69.5% emissions attributed to the rice‐growing seasons. Irrigated rice ecosystems accounted for a majority of global rice N2O emissions (∼76.9%) because of their higher N2O emission rates than rainfed systems. Regarding spatial analysis, Southern China, Northeast India, and Southeast Asia are hotspots for rice‐based N2O emissions. Experimental scenarios revealed that N fertilizer is the largest global rice‐N2O source, especially since the 1960s (0.047 ± 0.010 TgN yr−1, 35.24%), while the impact of expanded irrigation plays a minor role. Overall, this study provides a better understanding of the rice‐based ecosystem in the global agricultural N2O budget; further, it quantitively demonstrated the central role of N fertilizer in rice‐based N2O emissions by including rice crop calendars, covering non‐rice growing seasons, and differentiating the effects of various water regimes and input N forms. Our findings emphasize the significance of co‐management of N fertilizer and water regimes in reducing the net climate impact of global rice cultivation.
HEALTH AND EDUCATION: AN IMPACT ANALYSIS APPLYING PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING

In this paper, we estimated the effect of the School Health Program (PSE) on the total failure, total dropout, and total age/grade distortion rates based on microdata. Data was withdrawn from the School Census and Educational Indicators, published by INEP (Brazilian National Agency for Education and Research), and the list of public schools agreed in 2017 with the PSE, provided by the Ministry of Education (MEC). The Propensity Score Matching method applied sensitivity analyses developed by Ichino, Mealli, and Nannicini (2008) and Oster (2017) and heterogeneous tests to deepen questions intrinsic to the theme. The findings appoint to a fall in the total rates of failure, dropout, and age-grade distortion in schools under PSE compared to schools not participating in the Program. Such effects are significant and stand out in the total failure rate. In addition, it was noted that the PSE causes a more significant impact on the initial grades of middle school (1 st to 5 th grades) compared to the final years (6 th to 9 th
Life in a drawdown zone: natural history, reproductive phenology, and habitat use of amphibians and reptiles in a disturbed habitat.

Supervisory Committee Dr. Patrick Gregory, Supervisor (Department of Biology) Dr. Geraldine Allen, Departmental Member (Department of Biology) Dr. John Dower, Departmental Member (Department of Biology) Virgil Hawkes, Additional Member (LGL Limited Environmental Research Associates) Canada is the second highest producer of hydroelectric energy in the world. Nearly 50 of the hydroelectric reservoirs in the country have a capacity larger than 1 billion m. Despite the great number and extent of hydropower developments in Canada and around the world, relatively little is known about how dams and their operations influence terrestrial and semi-aquatic wildlife. Reservoirs at northern latitudes are characterized by large fluctuations in water level, which create modified shorelines called drawdown zones. To evaluate the impact of these disturbances on amphibians and reptiles, I conducted visual encounter surveys at two sites in the drawdown zone of Kinbasket Reservoir, near Valemount, B.C. From April to August of 2010 and 2011, I documented the habitat use, reproductive phenology, and body condition of two amphibian species (Anaxyrus boreas and Rana luteiventris) as well as the growth, movements, diet, and distribution of one species of garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis). At two sites in the drawdown zone, A. boreas and R. luteiventris were present for the duration of the summer and utilized several ponds for reproduction. The presence and abundance of Rana luteiventris eggs were generally associated with ponds that had higher mean temperatures, higher mean pH, and the presence of fish. In 2010, there was sufficient time for amphibian breeding and metamorphosis to occur before the reservoir inundated the drawdown zone, but low precipitation levels in that year led to desiccation of many breeding ponds. In 2011, high rainfall and snowmelt led to early inundation of breeding
General Clinico-Pathological Characteristics in Glioblastomas in Correlation with p53 and Ki67

Introduction: A glioblastoma is an intra-axial brain tumour of glial origin that belongs to the category of diffuse gliomas and is the most common malignant neoplasia of the central nervous system. The rate of survival at 5 years, from the moment of diagnosis, is not higher than 10%. Materials and methods: In this retrospective study, fifty-four patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, from the Pathology Department of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital of Târgu Mureș, between 2014 and 2017 were included. We studied the clinico-pathological data (age, gender, location, and laterality) and, respectively, the immunoexpression of p53, Ki67, ATRX, and IDH-1 proteins. Results: We observed a statistically significant association between the laterality of the tumour according to the age groups, with the localization on the right side being more frequent in the age group below 65 years of age, while the involvement of the left hemisphere was more prevalent in those over 65 years. Out of the total 54 cases, 87.04% were found to be primary glioblastomas; more than 70% of the cases were ATRX immunopositive; almost 80% of the glioblastomas studied had wild-type p53 profile; and 35% of the cases were found to have a Ki67 index greater than 20%. A statistically significant association between gender and ATRX mutation was found; female cases were ATRX immunopositive in 92% of the cases. Almost 70% of the cases were both IDH-1 and p53 wild-type, and we observed the presence of both mutations in only 3.7% of the cases. Approximately 83% of primary glioblastomas were ATRX positive, respectively, and all IDH-1 mutant cases were ATRX negative. Conclusions: Glioblastomas still represent a multidisciplinary challenge considering their reserved prognosis. In this study, we described the most common clinico-pathological characteristics and IHC marker expression profiles, highlighting a variety of percentage ranges in primary and secondary glioblastomas. Given the small number of studied cases, further prospective studies on larger cohorts are needed in the future to evaluate the role of these immunohistochemical markers as prognostic factors for survival or recurrence.
Data Transfer in an Injection-Locked Oscillator Coupled to an External Resonator

This work proposes the use of an injection-locked oscillator inductively coupled to an external resonator for power and data transfer. The injection locking prevents the variation of the oscillator carrier frequency with the coupling factor, while taking advantage of the oscillation to obtain high output power and efficiency under a low input amplitude. By using a rectifier, the inductively coupled oscillator can power a low-frequency source in the external resonator, which is used to modulate the oscillator signal. The high phase sensitivity of the locked regime enables a phase modulation through the variation of the external-resonator capacitance. This way data can be transmitted from the resonator to the oscillator, acting as a reader. A proof of concept has been implemented using a Class-E oscillator operating at 13.56 MHz, with good experimental results.
Recursive Prediction Model: A Preliminary Application to Lassa Fever Outbreak in Nigeria

Lassa fever (LF) is endemic in West Africa and Nigeria in particular. Since 1969 when the disease was discovered, a seasonal outbreak is often reported in Nigeria. Many researchers have reported inconsistent or varying numbers of suspected, confirmed and death cases since 2012 to date. To enhance this reportage, and due to the high mortality rate associated with LF, it is pertinent to design a suitable and robust model that could predict or estimate the number of LF cases based on the onset data. To achieve these, we proposed a recursive prediction (RP) model that could do predictions with the onset data. The Pearson correlation coefficient (R) and R2 are applied to determine the performance analysis of the model. The RP model predicted 96.7% confirmed cases and 89.6% death cases for the first three months of 2022 based on the onset data. The model was also applied to predict COVID-19 death cases during the six weeks of the outbreak in India. The result showed a comparable prediction with the regression output for the COVID-19 death cases. This study demonstrated that the proposed model could be applied to perform prediction for any disease of unknown etiology during the onset of the disease outbreak without any treatment similar to the COVID-19 outbreak. The performance analysis of the RP showed that the model is useful to predict the increasing trend of an outbreak of a disease with unknown etiology without prior treatment experience and vaccines.
Prognostic Significance of PD-L1 Expression in Stage 4 Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Objectives: Since lung cancer is the most deadly cancer in the world, developments regarding immune control points and molecules affecting these points have increased. The positive effects of immunotherapy treatments affecting the PD-1/programmed death receptor ligand-1(PD-L1) immune checkpoint on prognosis have drawn attention to these immunocheckpoints. While immunotherapy studies developed for the PD-1 pathway continue rapidly, the aim of this study is to investigate whether PD-L1 level can be used as a prognostic marker in non-small-cell lung cancer independent of immunotherapy. Methods: 115 patients admitted to our center between January 01, 2016, and January 01, 2018 and diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer were retrospectively analyzed. The files of all patients were scanned in detail and their pathological data were confirmed. Demographic data of the patients included in the study, pathological diagnosis methods, treatment information about the disease, and past medical histories of the patients were recorded with reference to the hospital database. Results: The patients with PD-L1 <50% were considered the negative group (NG), and the group with a PD-L1 value of 50% or more was considered the positive group (PG). There were 27 patients in the NG and 11 patients in the PG. It was determined that 21 (67.8%) of 27 NG patients and 3 (21.3%) of 11 PG patients died. In total, 24 (73.2%) of 38 patients were found to have died. While the mean survival in the NG was 10.81 months, the mean survival in the PG was 28.54 months. Mean survival in the PG was statistically significant (p=0.046). Conclusion: PD-L1 expression was found to be a positive predictive value in Stage 4 non-small-cell lung cancer. Our study differs from other studies in that it excluded epidermal growth factor receptor, anaplastic lymphoma kinase, and ROS mutations. To determine the relationship of PD-L1 with prognosis more clearly, there is a need for randomized, prospective studies with larger patient groups that exclude target mutations and are independent of immunotherapy and targeted therapies.