Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fuzzy approach for the selection of third party reverse logistics provider

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a structured model for evaluating and selecting the best third party reverse logistics provider (3PRLP) under fuzzy environment for the battery industry.Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the multi‐criteria decision‐making tools such as analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) are adopted to solve the problem of selection of 3PRLP.Findings – In a real‐time situation, collecting the returned products from the customer end to the manufacturer end becomes more tedious, time consuming work and also it makes the information flow in the supply chain management more complex. A separate logistics system has to be developed in order to inspect and maintain the collected returned products in the down stream management. This current scenario encourages the top‐level management to seek for an alternative for collecting the returned products instead of making their supply chain structure to be complex. This gives rise to th.
International Entrepreneurship: Linking Entrepreneurial Motivation, Orientation and Network Relationship

The paper analyses the importance of collaboration and networks in international entrepreneurship by distinguishing entrepreneurial small and medium firms (SMEs). SMEs, which characterized by fast internationalisation of their activity from the very beginning of the establishment despite limited resources, knowledge, international experience, are called born global. Such firms distinguish in entrepreneurial orientation, innovativeness, orientation towards niches, competitiveness and proactiveness towards international opportunities. The paper argues that the accelerator of entrepreneurial SMEs is their being in networks. Active interaction with customers, suppliers and external partners is inseparable from entrepreneurial orientation in pursuing for new possibilities in the market. The empirical data have been obtained from internationalized Lithuanian high-tech firms operating in the information technology sector. The paper presents motives, which determined the involvement of entrepreneurial SMEs into international markets, characteristics of entrepreneurial orientation as well as peculiarities of network relationship in Lithuania, a small Central and Eastern European country. The empirical evidence suggests that necessity to create national and international network relationships is the determinant success aspect of international expansion. The performed research extends the scope of international entrepreneurship research in emerging CEE countries.
Experimental results of a 7-channel spectroscopy detector module with mega-count rate capability

A compact detector module based on Si-drift detectors with integrated junction-field effect transistors has been developed. It has been set up for X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray standing-wave technique, and is usable in vacuum environment. The modules' hexagonal shape with a wrench size of 16 mm allows small distances to the samples and a compact multi-module arrangement. The monolithic 7-cell sensor has an active area of ~50 mm2 and a thickness of 450 mum. It provides a spectral resolution of some hundred eV in the soft X-ray regime at room temperature. A fully differential 7-channel BiCMOS readout chip has been developed to process the detector signals at a power dissipation of 15 mW per channel. First spectral measurements with energies up to 43 keV have been performed with the prototype module. A rate-dependent energy-peak shift remains below 3% at integral photon- count rates of more than 6 Mcts/s. The deviation from the linear regression is within plusmn2% in the energy range between 6 and 20 keV. The on-chip gain variations are below 3.4%.
What Roles Proxy Advisors Play: Evidence from International Comparison

For director election of French, Japanese, and UK companies, we examine how corporate ownership structures are associated with the sensitivity of voting outcome to proxy advisor recommendation. For UK companies, we find the approval rate significantly declines as foreign institutional ownership increases when Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recommends ‘Against’. For French shareholder meetings, the approval rate increases as foreign institutional ownership increases when ISS recommends ‘For’. These results suggest that ISS recommendations provide useful information to foreign institutional investors in France and UK who are subject to information asymmetry. Meanwhile, the approval rate in Japanese shareholder meeting, which are concentrated in the end of June, increases (decreases) as domestic institutional ownership increases when ISS recommends ‘For (Against)’. Overall, the results support the view that proxy advisor recommendations affect voting behaviors of institutional investors with high benefits and costs of information collection.
Investigating Source of Purchase-Occasion Heterogeneity with Implications for Acquisition and Retention Strategy

Recently, marketers realize that in order to maximize company profitability in the market for frequently purchased packaged goods, there should be a balanced use of both acquisition programs in targeting competitors’ consumers as well as retention programs in maintaining current retained consumers. One condition, in particular, is important to successful implementation of such programs: marketers need to understand consumers’ underlying motivational factors in making their repeat purchases and switching behaviors and the differential magnitudes of impacts of each marketing variables, along with brand preferences. In other words, marketers need to consider the role of purchase-occasion heterogeneity on the design and implementation of both types of marketing programs. By proposing a first-order brand choice model as a framework to capture the purchase-occasion heterogeneity, this study demonstrates that without accounting for it, marketers are highly likely to be misled by the resulting parameter estimates and two types of price elasticities and consequently, design wrong marketing programs due to their misunderstanding. In addition, this study finds that a single parameter for price in zero-order brand choice model is likely to push cross-price elasticity downward and own price elasticity upward due to aggregation bias. Overall, this study provides important managerial implications to marketing practitioners.
A real-time image recognition system using a global directional-edge-feature extraction VLSI processor

A directional-edge-feature-based real-time image recognition system has been developed. By employing a digital-pixel-sensor-embedded feature extraction VLSI processor, the delay due to the image data transfer between the image sensor and the feature extraction circuits, the most serious bottleneck in such systems, has been reduced dramatically. Parallel feature vector-generation and template-matching processor functions implemented on an FPGA further accelerate the processing speed. As a result, the latency between the image capture and the final recognition has been reduced to only 906 µs, making this system suitable for time critical applications. In addition, the capability of the system for automatic adaptation to more significant features has also been experimentally demonstrated.
A histopathological and pharmacological analysis of the mode of action of non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs

Many of the methods currently employed in the search for new anti-inflammatory agents have an almost unexplored pathogenesis ; one such example is the carrageenan foot-oedema model of inflammation (Winter, Risley and Nuss, 1962). The use of this model of inflammation is mainly based on the observation that the ability of drugs to suppress the oedema correlates well with their therapeutic activity in chronic inflammation in man.
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Time Series Recovery From a Few Temporal Aggregates

Motivated by electricity consumption reconstitution, we propose a new matrix recovery method using nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). The task tackled here is to reconstitute electricity consumption time series at a ﬁne temporal scale from measures that are temporal aggregates of individual consumption. Contrary to existing NMF algorithms, the proposed method uses temporal aggregates as input data, instead of matrix entries. Furthermore, the proposed method is extended to take into account individual autocorrelation to provide better estimation, using a recent convex relaxation of quadratically constrained quadratic programs. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world electricity consumption datasets illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
A Functional Approach to Attitude Measurement

In this research, Katz's functional theory is used to examine theoretical, measurement, and statistical issues surrounding the problems of operationalizing the utilitarian, value-expressive, knowledge, and ego-defensive functions. The results are very encouraging in that they show the functional approach offers a multifaceted, motive-based measure which links motives to attitudes.
Large-format displays

magine a future when every surface in every built space is a high-resolution active display with sensing capabilities. Scenario: I'm walking down the hall toward my office when I'm reminded that I'm late for a meeting with Mary to discuss the design of the students' center being built on campus. Unsure of the location of her office, I tap on the wall next to me and a large floorplan appears. After following a path displayed on the floor to guide me, I arrive at her office, and we begin to work. Mary and I view an immersive walkthrough of the design on her " smart wall, " and I draw modifications with a virtual marker, whose strokes are recognized and used to manipulate the computer model … Scenarios like this one are no longer science fiction— the technologies to make interactive display surfaces commonplace are being invented and deployed right now. Soon we will move into a new era of computing— ubiquitous visual computing based on enormous visual information and natural user interactions. The reasons for this new era are twofold: increased computer performance and developed display techonology. First, continuous rapid improvements in CPU performance , storage density, and network bandwidth have provided sufficient bandwidth and computational resources to support high-resolution displays and natural human-computer interactions. Nowadays, the main bandwidth bottleneck in an interactive computer system occurs in the link between computer and human, not between computer components within the system. Second, large-format display devices, such as projectors and flat panels, are rapidly becoming commodity items. Meanwhile, new display technologies, such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), will soon become available at inexpensive prices. They can be attached to almost any kind of surface, allowing unlimited freedom of design for the interiors and exteriors of rooms and buildings. We believe that new display technologies will revolutionize the way we use computers, making us rethink the relationship between information technology and our society. As an example, consider how wall-sized displays enable qualitatively different human-computer interactions than traditional desktop displays. A recent paper by Mayer divides viewing experience into four categories. 1 The first category is the " postage-stamp experience, " where the field of view is constrained by desktop system bandwidth limitations and display technology limitations. The second is the " television experience. " Television is ubiquitous and it's the baseline of multimedia applications on a digital computer. The third is the …
An arylamine acetyltransferase (AT‐I) from syrian golden hamster liver: Cloning, complete nucleotide sequence, and expression in mammalian cells

A cDNA clone (designated hamAT101) encoding an arylamine acetyltransferase, AT‐I, was isolated from a hamster liver λgt11 cDNA library using a specific polyclonal antibody raised against AT‐I. The cloned cDNA insert consisted of 1181 nucleotides, including an open reading frame of 870 nucleotides encoding 290 amino acids (Mr 33,503). The isolated cDNA displayed high sequence similarity to those of chicken, rabbit, and human acetyltransferases. In Northern blots, the hamAT101 cDNA probe hybridized to an RNA band of 18S in the livers of both slow and rapid acetylator phenotypes. To confirm that hamAT101 cDNA encodes the monomorphic but not the polymorphic protein, the isolated cDNA was expressed in monkey kidney cells (COS‐1 cells) using the vector p91023(B). A protein with a molecular weight similar to that of AT‐I was detected upon Western blotting in the 9000 × g supernatant from the transfected cells. The activity toward four different substrates of the 9000 × g supernatant was also examined. In agreement with the results of purified AT‐I, the cDNA‐expressed protein exhibited a high capacity for N‐acetylation of 4‐aminoazobenzene and 2‐aminofluorene, and O‐acetylation of 2‐hydroxyamino‐6‐methyldipyrido[1,2‐a:3′,2′‐d]imidazole, whereas no activity was found for the N‐acetylation of p‐aminobenzoic acid. These results, in addition to the RNA blot hybridization, indicate that hamAT101 encodes the hamster acetyltransferase AT‐I.
Energy consumption of residential HVAC systems: A simple physically-based model

The residential sector accounted for almost a quarter of the total 2009 energy consumption in the United States, namely 21.2 out of 94.6 Quadrillion BTU of primary energy. Space conditioning end-use includes Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and represents the most significant residential energy consumption. This paper proposes a simple, physically-based model to simulate electric and heating energy consumption of residential HVAC systems during the year, starting from a limited set of household characteristic parameters. The model relies on fundamental principles of thermodynamics and heat transfer applied to a control volume including solely the air present in the household. The model has been implemented in MATLAB® and its flexibility allows different scenarios to be easily simulated and the impact of different technology adoptions to be assessed. A validation against actual metered residential load data provided by American Electric Power is provided.
The Replication-independent Histone H3-H4 Chaperones HIR, ASF1, and RTT106 Co-operate to Maintain Promoter Fidelity

Background: Transcription is disruptive to chromatin structure and can expose cryptic promoters. Results: We identify those factors that might regulate cryptic transcription from within inactive and transcribed locations. Conclusion: Nucleosome shielding prevents cryptic transcription, and replication-independent histone replacement is co-operatively mediated by three H3-H4 chaperones. Significance: Understanding how cryptic transcription is regulated and lost histones replaced is of fundamental importance. RNA polymerase II initiates from low complexity sequences so cells must reliably distinguish “real” from “cryptic” promoters and maintain fidelity to the former. Further, this must be performed under a range of conditions, including those found within inactive and highly transcribed regions. Here, we used genome-scale screening to identify those factors that regulate the use of a specific cryptic promoter and how this is influenced by the degree of transcription over the element. We show that promoter fidelity is most reliant on histone gene transactivators (Spt10, Spt21) and H3-H4 chaperones (Asf1, HIR complex) from the replication-independent deposition pathway. Mutations of Rtt106 that abrogate its interactions with H3-H4 or dsDNA permit extensive cryptic transcription comparable with replication-independent deposition factor deletions. We propose that nucleosome shielding is the primary means to maintain promoter fidelity, and histone replacement is most efficiently mediated in yeast cells by a HIR/Asf1/H3-H4/Rtt106 pathway.
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of Catchment Modelling with Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Model

Changed water regime in watercourses and high loads of sediment as a product of surface flow soil erosion can cause reductions in biodiversity, which is becoming one of the main indicators of environmental quality. Especially in the light of the European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) (2000/60/EC) which requires new approaches, methods and tools for improvement, protection and prevention of further decreasing water quality. The main aim of the WFD is to achieve good quality status of water bodies in Europe by 2015 (Volk et al., 2009). Changes in social system and climate may, regardless environmental legislation restrictions, lead to changes in land use and hence in quantity of water flow and sediment concentrations in waters. Merging the different spatial and environmental data is time consuming; therefore, the use of computer modelling tools is necessary.
Infusion line model for the detection of infiltration, extravasation, and other fluid flow faults

Infiltration or extravasation is the undesirable infusion of fluids and medication into the tissue space surrounding a blood vessel. If left undetected, it may cause severe tissue damage to patients requiring surgical repair or even amputation. While there are numerous patents purporting the automatic detection of infiltration, few seem to be built into current infusion devices, and none are able to distinguish between various faulty fluid flow conditions. An attempt was made to demonstrate that the dynamic hydraulic properties of an IV-line can be used to detect infiltration and extravasation as well as other fluid flow faults such as a kinked line or an occluded needle. A pressure step was applied to five IV-lines under five different experimental conditions; the resulting pressure curves were modeled by a third-order system. With a reliability of 92%, the system parameters were used to detect and correctly identify five different fluid flow conditions. <<ETX>>
Use of SNP Markers Within the Fat Mass and Obesity-associated (FTO) Gene to Verify Pedigrees and Determine Haplotypes in Paternal Half-sib Families of Slovenian Simmental Cattle

The objective of this preliminary study was to identify SNP markers within the FTO gene for evaluation of pedigree data accuracy and determination of haplotypes in paternal half-sib families of Slovenian Simmental cattle. Out of 23 polymorphic SNPs identified ten most informative SNPs for genotyping 31 sires and 56 half-sib progeny were used. The ATLAS program was used for paternity testing. Haplotype analysis revealed three haplotype blocks. The effect of SNPs “ex2 T>C” and “int2 indel*>T” was significant on three correlated carcass traits: live weight at slaughter (P= 0.03), carcass weight (P= 0.038), and lean weight (P= 0.048). The FTO gene can thus be regarded as a candidate for the marker assisted selection programs in our and possibly other populations of cattle. Future studies in cattle might also reveal novel roles of the FTO gene in carcass traits on livestock species as well as fatness control in other mammals.
PHEV Charging Strategy With Asymmetric Information Based On Contract Design

Abstract As the development of plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), this kind of hybrid vehicles have great potential in increasing the efficiency of energy and reducing carbon emission. The plug-in-feature not only means charging quickly and conveniently, but also brings power grid a great challenge in dynamic stability. Considering the information asymmetric characteristic in electricity market, we propose a contract based charging strategy with profit maximization of power sector as the object while guaranteeing the PHEV users' non-negative utility. We prove the result of the strategy via simulations based on meticulous modeling of PHEV.
Pengaruh Return On Asset, Sales Growth, Asset Growth, Cash Flow, Dan Likuiditas Terhadap Dividend Payout Ratio Perusahaan Perbankan Di Bursa Efek Indonesia Tahun 2009 - 2013

This study aims to determine the effect of ROA on Dividend Payout Ratio on Banking Companies Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, to determine the effect of the Sales Growth Dividend Payout Ratio on Banking Companies Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, to determine the effect of the Asset Growth Dividend Payout Ratio on Banking company Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, to determine the effect of the Cash Flow Dividend Payout Ratio on Banking Companies Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, to determine the effect of the Dividend Payout Ratio Liquidity in Banking Companies Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, to determine the effect of ROA , Sales Growth, Asset Growth, Cash Flow and Liquidity together against Dividend Payout Ratio on Banking Companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The population in this study are all companies belonging to banking in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). In accordance with the IDX publication shows that the number of listed companies in the period 2009-2013 a number of 45 issuers. In this study, the selected sample is 15 banking company incorporated in a row during 2009-2013 in Indonesia Stock Exchange. Analysis of the data used to test for normality, classic assumption test, F test, t test and the coefficient of determination. The results showed a significant effect on the Return On Parliament on Commercial Banks in IDX. Thus, Hypothesis 1. The results showed that SG significant effect on the House on Commercial Banks in IDX. Thus, Hypothesis 2 is acceptable. The results showed that AG significantly influence the House on Commercial Banks in IDX. Thus, Hypothesis 3 is acceptable. The results showed that the CF significantly influence the House on Commercial Banks in IDX. Thus, Hypothesis 4 is acceptable. The results showed that CR significantly influence the House on Commercial Banks in IDX. Thus, Hypothesis 5 is acceptable. From the test results simultaneously known that the independent variables simultaneously have a significant influence on the House of Commercial Banks companies in IDX. Keywords: Return on Assets, Sales Growth, Asset Growth, Cash Flow, Liquidity and Dividend Payout Ratio.
An insight into the impact of a retailer's relationship efforts on customers' attitudes and behavioral intentions

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to summarize existing evidence about the behavioral sequence of relationship marketing at the individual customer level, and also to offer a conceptual model of the impact of particular behaviors that signal whether customers remain with or defect from the company.Design/methodology/approach – Based on the SEM tool of Lisrel (Linear Structure Relation), This study develops and empirically tests a model for examination of the impact of different relationship efforts (financial bonding, social bonding, and structural bonding) made by a retailer on key relationship marketing outcomes (perceived relationship investment, customer satisfaction, trust, relationship commitment, and behavioral intentions). A cross‐department study in the financial services industry was conducted, based on three customer samples (from the departments of loans, deposits, and credit cards) drawn from XYZ bank, one of the most famous banks providing merchant banking services in Taiwan.Findings – S.