Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
When Big Data Backfires: The Impact of a Perceived Privacy Breach by Pharmaceutical E-Retailers on Customer Boycott Intention in China

The objective of this study was to explore the impact of a perceived privacy breach by pharmaceutical e-retailers on customer boycott intention, especially the mediating role of emotional violation and the moderating effect of customer previous trust. Data were collected via a questionnaire survey of 335 customers of pharmaceutical e-retailers from China. Our research results showed that a perceived privacy breach by a pharmaceutical e-retailer had no direct effect on customer boycott intention; a perceived privacy breach positively affected emotional violation; emotional violation led to customer boycott intention; emotional violation played a mediating role in the relationship between a perceived privacy breach and customer boycott intention; and customer previous trust positively moderated the mediating effect of emotional violation.
Four cases of warts treated by individualized homoeopathic medicine - a clinical case study

The aim of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of homeopathic medicine in the treatment of various types of warts. In each case, medicine was selected after taking the detailed case history and performing analysis, evaluation, and repertorization using Kent’s Repertory. The similimum was selected after Materia medica differentiation. A single medicine was prescribed per the law of homeopathy. Two doses of the selected medicine were administrated followed by placebo as per law of minimum. During the follow-up, there was no change in the potency. The first and second cases were of filiform wart. They were treated with Hepar sulph and Arsenicum alb, respectively. The third case was of verruca vulgaris wart, which was treated with Natrum muriaticum. The fourth case was of a cutaneous horny wart that was also treated with Natrum muriaticum. All four cases were cured within 40–45 days with no adverse effects. The well-chosen homeopathic remedy was very effective in all four cases in this series; the patients reported reduction of symptoms along with improved general well-being. Individualized homeopathic treatment plays a very important role in such cases. Further, study is suggested for evaluating a larger spectrum of remedies in treating cases of warts.
A review of crop water productivity in the Mediterranean basin under a changing climate: Wheat and barley as test cases

The ever‐increasing water demands in the agricultural sector of the Mediterranean basin region (MBR) under climate change warrants that crop water productivity (WP) is a pertinent topic for discussion. Considering this need, this study aims to synthesize the body of knowledge on WP focusing on the MBR. The study is based on two test cases: (1) wheat, because it is a basic staple food in high dietary demand in the region and (2) barley, because it is a climate‐resilient alternative that is extensively cultivated in severe water‐ and salinity‐stress conditions. These staple crops are strategically important for regional food security in the MBR, which covers southern Europe, North Africa and western Asia. The study tries to investigate the plausible reasons for yield and WP gaps in the region. Our meta‐analysis revealed that wheat and barley are very different in their spatial distributions, productions and stress resiliencies in the MBR. Under the large gamut of biophysical and socio‐economic constraints that affect crop production, it is observed that the northern and southern parts of the MBR have large capacity differences (institutional, infrastructural and technical) in cereal production. It is noted that the role of soil‐water management in improving WP is vital and plays a critical role in closing yield gaps across the MBR. Moreover, the scaling of stress‐tolerant varieties along with a package of agronomic practices can enhance WP, and thereby we can make the region adaptive to climate change, especially in terms of water stress. The literature revealed that the MBR, especially the southern parts encompassing North Africa and western Asia, critically lacks comprehensive experimental/observational evidence on the dynamics of field water balance. This knowledge is key to enhancing WP assessments using modelling approaches. The paper concludes that the MBR does have water‐saving potential; it simply needs planned adaptation measures to enhance WP at the local and regional scales with effective benchmark studies in future.
An Adjustable Wide-Range Speed-Control Method for Sensorless IPMSM Drive Systems

This paper proposes an adjustable wide-range speed-control method for sensorless IPMSM drive systems from standstill, low-speeds, middle-speeds, and high-speeds in the flux-weakening region. A sensorless method and an online parameter estimation method based on the measurement of current-slope under SVPWM with an extension compensation are proposed. The estimated rotor position, rotor speed, d-q axis inductances, magnetic flux, and torque of the IPMSM are precisely computed by using a current-slope measurement, and then a closed-loop speed control sensorless IPMSM drive system is implemented without requiring any external high-frequency signal injection or a complicated observer. In addition, to achieve a high-performance sensorless IPMSM drive system, the estimated parameters are used for real-time maximum torque per ampere control and flux-weakening control. Finally, the proposed sensorless IPMSM drive system provides a wide operation range from 1 r/min to 3000 r/min with excellent performance in constant-torque regions and flux-weakening regions. A digital signal processor, made by Texas Instrument, type TMS 320F2802, is employed to realize the control algorithm and estimation algorithm. Experimental results show the proposed sensorless IPMSM drive system achieves satisfactory responses, including $\pm \,{\mathrm {2.5}}^{\circ }$ of electrical position estimation errors, good dynamic responses, and good tracking responses.
Predicting Schedule Duration for Defense Acquisition Programs: Program Initiation to Initial Operational Capability

Abstract : Accurately predicting the most realistic schedule for a defense acquisitions program is an extremely difficult task considering the inherent risk and uncertainties present in the early stages of a program. We use a multiple regression analysis to predict schedule duration in a defense acquisition program. The prediction scope of our research is limited to predicting schedule duration from program initiation to initial operation capability (IOC). We use the data from 56 programs across all services, which was acquired from a SAR database created by RAND. We were able to achieve an R2 of 0.429 and an Adjusted R2 of 0.384 in our finalized model multiple regression model. Based on the lack of clarity present in the early stages of a program, we look to the R2 and Adjusted R2 of our final model to be significant in predicting schedule from program initiation to IOC. We found whether MS-B start occurred in 1985 or later, a program was a modification or not, the RDT and E funding at MS-B start (BY16), and RDT and E $(M) at MS-B start (BY16) to be significant predictors of the time in months between MS-B start and IOC.
Design spaces and EEG frequency band power in constrained and open design

ABSTRACT Design space is a common abstraction used in the investigation of design cognition. Characteristic properties of design spaces and how they change are underexplored. Design spaces can vary with the design task and its constraints, which are assumed to result in differences in neurocognitive processes. We review general cognition, creative cognition and design neurocognition EEG studies. We analyzed the brain activity of 32 professional mechanical engineers and industrial designers while performing constrained and open design tasks. The neurophysiological activations during reading the task, earliest reaction, and open externalization stages of constrained and open design are compared based on EEG frequency band power. Significant differences between constrained and open design for the beta bands were found in the earliest reaction stage. Significant differences between constrained and open design for alpha 2 and the beta bands were found in the open externalization stage. We discuss the results and relate the higher brain activity and significant differences in open design to cognitive functions of interest to design cognition. We show that EEG brain activation is sensitive to the level of constraints in designing, in particular alpha 2 and beta bands can act as proxies of the change and expansion of design spaces.
Consumer Behavior, Organizational Development, and Electronic Commerce: Emerging Issues for Advancing Modern Socioeconomies

Considering the global spread of e-commerce technologies and the rapid pace of organizational adoption of these technological advancements, there is a need for reliable research results on e-services, outsourcing applications, and consumer resources management.Consumer Behavior, Organizational Development, and Electronic Commerce: Emerging Issues for Advancing Modern Socioeconomies offers readers a one-stop resource for contemporary issues, developments, and influences in e-commerce. Through in-depth literature reviews and inventive methodologies, academics, students, and practitioners will find this publication to be a ready reference -- suitable for university or corporate library collections and advanced coursework -- for a complete depiction of technologies and their impact on modern global socioeconomics.
Medical Waste Management Practices at Healthcare Facilities in Cape Coast Metropolis

Objectives: This study examined the level of knowledge of health hazards associated with medical waste management, among healthcare workers and management staff of healthcare facilities in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Methods: Three hundred and twenty (320) healthcare workers were surveyed from two public hospitals in the Metropolis and 7 management staff were purposefully selected and interviewed. The participants include nurses, orderlies, administrators, and environmental health officers. Frequency, percentages and linear regression analyses were performed on the data. Results: The results showed that 95.9% (n = 307) of health professionals recorded good knowledge about management of medical waste in their facilities. However, arrangement for managing medical waste was inadequate at the facilities (Mean = 1.47, SD = 0.221, CV = 15.03%). The finding revealed that compliance with occupational health and safety guidelines was high (Mean=3.99, SD=0.39, CV=9.82%). Moreover, regression analysis indicated that training is a strong predictor of medical waste practices (0.357) even though educational level, working experiences, and age of the workers were also predictors (-0.356; -0.103; 0.010). Conclusion: Level of knowledge of hospital workers on medical waste health hazards is high, but arrangements for managing such waste are inadequate or weak. Compliance to Ministry of Health’s occupational health and safety guidelines is high. Meanwhile, training of healthcare workers would increase their medical waste management practices. A well-structured training with appropriate storage facility and good supervision at the point of waste generation should be prioritized to assist workers to practice safer and proper waste segregation.
Additive Growth

Growth theory is based on the assumption of exponential total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Across countries and time periods I ﬁnd that TFP growth is additive. There is no evidence that TFP increments increase with the level of TFP as predicted by the exponential model. Even with low priors Bayesian esti-mations selects the additive model over the exponential one. The additive growth model, unlike the exponential one, provides useful long-term forecasts for TFP. For the distant past the model suggests piecewise linear evolutions with infrequent changes: the size of TFP increments increases around 1650, 1830 and 1930. For the distant future the model predicts ever increasing increments in standards of living but with falling real interest rates and growth rates that converge to zero.
Induction Motor Relaying Scheme for External Faults Detection and Classification Using Subtractive Clustering Based Sugeno Fuzzy Inference System

Abstract Conventional thermal relays generally suffer from inaccurate induction motor external faults identification. Recent developments in diagnosis systems have led to the scope of radically different diagnosis strategies based on artificial intelligence techniques. This study use fuzzy logic as a software tool and relay logic for external faults identification of an induction motor. In this study, a subtractive clustering based Sugeno-type fuzzy inference system is utilized to classify five external faults and the normal condition of a low-voltage three-phase induction motor using simulation and practical data sets. Five external faults- overload, over-voltage, under-voltage, single-phasing, and voltage unbalance-along with normal conditions are simulated on an induction motor over a wide range of operating voltage and load torque; sampled three-phase RMS voltages and currents are used as input feature vectors to train the fuzzy inference system. Average total classification accuracy and average root means square error obtained with ten-times random sub-sampling cross-validation of test data sets are used to find the best accurate and generalized fuzzy inference system configuration among different cluster radius fuzzy inference systems for both simulation and real-time data sets. This method accurately detects external faults with 94.37% average total classification accuracy for practical test data sets.
Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching

Evidence suggests that the features of a stimulus and the actions performed on it are bound together into a coherent mental representation of the episode, which is retrieved from memory upon reencountering at least one of these features. Effects of such binding and retrieval processes emerge in action control, such as in multitasking situations like task switching. In the task-switching paradigm, response-repetition benefits are observed in task repetitions, but response-repetition costs in task switches. This interaction of task repetition (vs. switch) with response repetition (vs. switch) may be explained in terms of task-response binding. In two experiments, we included a task-irrelevant contextual feature in a cued task-switching paradigm using word identification tasks. In Experiment 1, the cue modality could vary between visual and auditory; in Experiment 2, the cue language could vary between English and Spanish, while the target stimulus was always presented visually and in German. We predicted that repeating the contextual feature in the subsequent trial would retrieve the features of the previous trial, even though cue modality or cue language did not afford any response and were not associated with either task. The results showed that response repetition-benefits in task repetitions were observable when the context (i.e., the modality or the language of the cue) repeated but disappeared when the context switched from the previous trial. These results are consistent with context-specific binding and retrieval processes in task switching.
Alexithymia and Psychopathological Manifestations Centered on the Body: Somatization and Self-Harm

The present study aimed to investigate alexithymia and psychopathological manifestations centered on the body in a sample of adolescents with somatizing and/or self-harming issues to analyze the phenomenon of NSSI linked to Somatic Symptom Disorders (SSD). A sample of 184 adolescents between 12 and 19 years of age, was divided into three groups, one with NSSI (n = 49) and the second group with SSD (n = 57), comparing them with a third group of adolescents with SSD and NSSI (n = 78) to investigate their differences and similarities in psychopathological correlates and to analyze the mediation role of alexithymia and emotional dysregulation in NSSI and SSD related to internalizing problems. The battery of tests included the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the Youth Self-Report 11–18 (YSR). The NSSI + SSD group scored higher than the other two groups on all the YSR scales. The affective syndromes were the only clinical condition that discriminated between the three groups. On all the other syndrome scales, the NSSI + SSD group differed from the other two groups, while there were no differences between the NSSI group and the SSD group. The NSSI + SSD group revealed a more severely deficient emotional self-regulation. Difficulty identifying feelings was a trait shared by adolescents with SSD and those engaging in NSSI, a more complex overall alexithymia profile was associated with the combination of self-harming behavior and somatization. Alexithymia and emotional dysregulation played a mediating role in the relationship between internalizing problems and somatization. We did not find a mediating role in alexithymia and emotional dysregulation in the relationship between internalizing problems and self-injurious behavior. The combination of NSSI and SSD gave rise to more severe psychopathological correlates, clinical levels of alexithymia, and more severe deficient emotional self-regulation. Results of mediation role indicated a link between alexithymia, emotional dysregulation, and somatization.
The dissemination and impacts of deceptive eWOM: a dynamic process perspective

ABSTRACT To minimise risk, consumers seek out eWOM, recommendations, and reviews from others before making purchasing decisions. However, it is not uncommon to see companies masterminding deceptive eWOM, disguising promotional messages as user-generated product reviews to attract and retain consumers. The extant literature is extremely limited regarding deceptive eWOM and its long-term effects. Ours is the first longitudinal study to examine consumers’ belief and attitude changes in the context of deceptive eWOM. This study found that, in a herding situation, deceptive eWOM can strongly influence changes in consumers’ beliefs and attitudes, whether in the early phase or mainstream phase, at the pre-adoption stage. If deceptive eWOM emerges earlier, it has a more powerful influence later. At the post-adoption stage, once they have used it, consumers may change their evaluations of a new product. However, this new evaluation is still subject to the initial anchoring effect brought by deceptive eWOM. If consumers sense deceptive eWOM and attribute it to a certain responsible party, the anchoring effect will be weakened. These findings provide further knowledge and understanding of the effects of deceptive eWOM, with implications for firms seeking to develop more effective eWOM marketing strategies.
Transferring sampling errors into geostatistical modelling

In mineral resources/reserves modelling, the main and sometimes only source of information is the exploratory drilling data-set. During different stages of the project evaluation, various drilling campaigns are carried out in different periods of time and/or with different goals. As such, the exploratory data-set is continually updated by each campaign. The lifetime of an exploration project can be several decades, and in this context different technologies may be used during these drilling campaigns. Legacy data from campaigns drilled at early stages of the project may not have been subjected to any quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures1. Even recent campaigns drilled will have different precision due to the drilling technique used, for example, diamond or reverse circulation drilling, or due to different QA/QC standards. The effect of poor-quality data at different stages of a project has been widely discussed in the literature2–4. The quantification of sampling error during sample collection and preparation for chemical analysis is also well documented; most operations perform routine checks of the quality of their sampling procedures5–8. One outstanding problem in the evaluation of mineral resources and reserves is the use of data with inherent errors. The use of imprecise data has been studied in the literature4,9–11, but it is uncommon to find that the errors have been accounted for in the evaluation of the mineral inventory12,13. Transferring sampling errors into geostatistical modelling
Regression model for entry capacity of a roundabout under mixed traffic condition – an Indian case study

Abstract This paper presents a regression model which is developed to estimate entry capacity of an approach on a roundabout for Indian traffic conditions. The entry capacity of an approach on a roundabout is expected to depend on the circulating traffic flow in front of that approach and the safe opportunity for vehicles entering that flow. The relationship between entry capacity and circulating traffic flow is found to be negative exponential i.e. the entry capacity decreases exponentially with an increase in the circulating traffic flow. The analysis also indicated that the widths of circulating roadways and central island diameters have a significant influence on the entry capacity. The circulating traffic flow versus entry capacity charts were made with the purpose of comparing the results of the proposed model with the existing models available in the literature, namely Jordanian, Malaysian, and Indian. The comparison indicated that the proposed entry capacity model gave the highest entry capacity, whereas the Malaysian model gave the lowest entry capacity. The results of the proposed model have shown very good relationship with the field entry flow data, as compared to other models. Hence, this model is suggested to estimate entry capacity on roundabouts under similar varied traffic flow conditions in developing countries.
Do the Emotions Evoked by Interface Design Factors Affect the User’s Intention to Continue Using the Smartwatch? The Mediating Role of Quality Perceptions

Abstract Based on the S-O-R model as the overall theoretical framework, this study combined objective factors in interface design with subjective perceptions, and investigated whether the emotions evoked by interface design factors would affect user’s intention to continue using the smartwatch through two stages. The first stage, we used two-way ANOVA to analyze whether symmetry and complexity in interface design have different effects on user’s emotions. The findings found that asymmetrical interface designs tend to be more likely to evoke emotional arousal, whereas symmetrical interface designs are more likely to evoke emotional valence. Moreover, complex interface designs are more likely to evoke emotional arousal and valence than simple interface designs. The second stage, the bootstrapping method was adopted to examine the mediating effect of quality perceptions, and to explore the influence of emotions evoked by interface design factors on the user’s intention to continue using smartwatch. The results found that users’ hedonic and pragmatic qualities fully mediate the effect of emotional arousal and valence on continuous usage intention of the smartwatch. Moreover, it is important to address the relationship between users and products through emotions and quality perceptions evoked by interface design factors to increase user experience and enjoyment. Furthermore, it is suggested to design and manufacture products with strong emotional attachment, which is also one of the effective methods to solve some environmental issues caused by consumer electronics.