Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Examining the Effects of Apparel Attributes on Perceived Copyright Infringement and the Relationship Between Perceived Risks and Purchase Intention of Knockoff Fashion

The growth of fast fashion retailers, availability of knockoff fashion apparel, and proposed apparel copyright law prompted this study. Fast fashion retailers are expanding rapidly and producing knockoffs fashion apparel in a matter of weeks, but current U.S. copyright laws do not protect apparel. The primary purpose of this study was to identify prominent visual fashion apparel attributes that could determine perceived copyright infringement. A secondary purpose was to examine the effects of fashion apparel attributes on perceived copyright infringement, perceived risk, and purchase intention. A sequential exploratory mixed method approach was used to explore the relationship between: Attributes, perceived copyright infringement, perceived risk, and purchase intention. This study consisted of a: Study one, study two, and study three. Twelve hypotheses were proposed, and five were supported. Quality significantly affected both perceived copyright infringement and purchase intention. Performance, social, and asset significantly affected purchase intention of knockoff fashion apparel.
Shared Genomic Segment Analysis. Mapping Disease Predisposition Genes in Extended Pedigrees Using SNP Genotype Assays

We examine the utility of high density genotype assays for predisposition gene localization using extended pedigrees. Results for the distribution of the number and length of genomic segments shared identical by descent among relatives previously derived in the context of genomic mismatch scanning are reviewed in the context of dense single nucleotide polymorphism maps. We use long runs of loci at which cases share a common allele identically by state to localize hypothesized predisposition genes. The distribution of such runs under the hypothesis of no genetic effect is evaluated by simulation. Methods are illustrated by analysis of an extended prostate cancer pedigree previously reported to show significant linkage to chromosome 1p23. Our analysis establishes that runs of simple single locus statistics can be powerful, tractable and robust for finding DNA shared between relatives, and that extended pedigrees offer powerful designs for gene detection based on these statistics.
Crosstalk between Photoreceptor and Sugar Signaling Modulates Floral Signal Transduction

Over the past decade, integrated genetic, cellular, proteomic and genomic approaches have begun to unravel the surprisingly crosstalk between photoreceptors and sugar signaling in regulation of floral signal transduction. Although a number of physiological factors in the pathway have been identified, the molecular genetic interactions of some components are less well understood. The further elucidation of the crosstalk mechanisms between photoreceptors and sugar signaling will certainly contribute to our better understanding of the developmental circuitry that controls floral signal transduction. This article summarizes our current knowledge of this crosstalk, which has not received much attention, and suggests possible directions for future research.
Novel mucoadhesive nasal inserts based on chitosan/hyaluronate polyelectrolyte complexes for peptide and protein delivery.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was the preparation and characterisation of mucoadhesive nasal inserts based on chitosan/hyaluronate polyelectrolyte complexes prepared at various pHs and at different molar ratios. METHODS A suspension of chitosan/hyaluronate complexes with or without the model drugs (vancomycin or insulin) was lyophilised into small inserts. Complexation yield, FT-IR spectra and thermogravimetric analysis were used to study the degree of interactive strength between polyions. In-vitro swelling, mucoadhesion and release tests were performed in order to investigate delivery of vancomycin and insulin in the nasal cavity. KEY FINDINGS The results indicated that the selection of complex preparative conditions allows modulation of insert swelling and mucoadhesion ability. Nasal inserts containing vancomycin or insulin had showed completely different drug release behaviour. CONCLUSIONS Chitosan/hyaluronate polyelectrolyte complexes can be used for the formulation of mucoadhesive nasal inserts for the delivery of peptide and protein drugs.
Discriminative Aspects of SF-36 and QQL-EPM Related to Asthma Control

Aim. To study any discriminative properties of SF-36 and QQL-EPM in stable and non-controlled moderate asthmatic patients. Methods. A total of 63 asthmatic patients were assessed regarding asthma symptoms, FEV1 % predicted value, PEF, ED visits and hospitalizations, QQL-EPM and SF-36 questionnaires. Results. QQL-EPM highlighted significance in all domains to distinguish stable from non-controlled patients (p = 0.0001) while SF-36 was only significant in 3 of its 7 domains (p = 0.009). Conclusion. The study showed that the specific quality of life questionnaire for asthma (QQL-EPM) demonstrates better discriminative properties that characterize asthma control when compared with the more generic SF-36 questionnaire.
House‐dust‐mite allergen (Der p 1) levels in university colleges

Background In coastal Australia, mean house‐dust‐mite allergen concentration is 20‐40 times higher in homes than in public buildings. Allergen concentrations in university colleges, which share some eharacteristics of both homes and public buildings, are not known. The study aimed to compare bed mite‐allergen concentration in colleges with local homes.
Bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation: a review of seven cases.

BACKGROUND Bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation (BPOP) is a rare tumour-like condition mostly affecting the tubular bones of the hands and feet. Although it recurs in 50% of cases after local excision, it is a form of heterotopic ossification and its behaviour is otherwise benign. The present study describes seven cases of BPOP collected by the Bone Tumour Registry of New South Wales. METHODS Clinical data, radiographs and histological specimens collected by the Bone Tumour Registry of New South Wales were examined, and further clinical data were sought from the referring doctor where necessary. RESULTS Six males and one female aged 18 to 37 years (median 30 years) presented between 1988 and 1995. There were three cases involving the hands, three involving the feet and one involving the distal humerus. Initial treatment was by local excision in all cases. There was local recurrence in three cases. The initial diagnosis was wrong in five of the seven cases. Radiologically, BPOP appears as a well-defined tumour arising directly from the bony cortex, without periosteal reaction or change to the underlying bone. Histologically, a large amount of hypercellular cartilage shows maturation to trabecular bone, which frequently contains spindle cells in the intertrabecular spaces. CONCLUSION BPOP is a rare, locally recurrent but otherwise benign condition of bone which must be distinguished from more sinister lesions such as parosteal osteosarcoma and chondrosarcoma.
Checklists, Checklists, Every Where, but not a List to Easily Check: An Exploratory Study of Personal Health Information Management Practices

Preventive healthcare services require consumers to coordinate and manage several healthcare activities with multiple service providers. In this paper we set out to understand what challenges people face in managing personal healthcare requirements. We conducted a qualitative study of consumers who participate in a preventive care program called the Health Enhancement Program in the State of Connecticut. Data from the interviews of 15 participants of this program highlighted several challenges faced by participants in scheduling and managing their healthcare requirements. While some of the challenges were due to lack of communication between several stakeholders of the process, others provide implications for design of technology that can support management of personal healthcare requirements.
Partial Public Ownership and Managerial Incentives

We analyze the impact of partial public ownership (PPO) on managerial incentives. A novelty of the paper is that it explicitly considers competition in the product market. We find that PPO negatively affects managerial incentives when all firms are partially owned by the government. When partially public firms compete with private firms, the effects on managerial incentives crucially depend on the degree of competitive pressure. Thereby, PPO induces either partially public firms or their private competitors to offer stronger managerial incentives. This result is essentially confirmed even if the government's primary concern is consumer protection rather than social welfare.
Faster-than-Nyquist System Based on Novel Shaping Waveforms

Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) system provides higher throughput and spectrum efficiency, which is pivotal in future communication. Traditionally in Nyquist system, orthogonality of shaping waveforms is required in order to avoid inter-symbol interference (ISI). However, ISI is permitted in FTN system and thus the advantages of nonorthogonal pulses can be utilized. In this paper, two innovative ones, namely EGF and Gaussian pulses, are designed in FTN system. Simulation results indicate that typical FTN system with EGF and Gaussian pulses obtains 1.9dB SNR gain compared with that of Raised-cosine pulse in case of 66.7% throughput gain. In addition, a practical FTN transceiver is proposed, in which complexity of MAP equalization is 94% reduced with the help of nonorthogonal waveforms.
A Methodology to Measure e-HR Capability in an e-Business Environment

기업 인력의 e-Business 적용 능력은 e-Business 환경에서 개인에게 주어진 업무를 효율적으로 수행하고 업무성 과를 향상하기 위해 필요하다. 본 연구는 e-Business 인력의 측정도구, 측정체계 및 방법을 제시한다. 개발된 측정 도구는 요인분석과 신뢰성 분석을 통하여 그 구조의 타당성을 검증하였고, e-Business 인력을 효과적으로 측정할 수 있는 16 개의 측정항목을 갖는 측정 도구를 제시하였다. 개발된 측정도구의 적용성과 활용성은 실제 e-Business 환경의 기업에서 근무하는e-Business 인력에 적용하여 그 결과를 제시함으로써 확인 하였다. 본 연구는 e-Business 환경의 기업에서 근무하는 인력의 e-Business 능력을 측정하고 개선하는 방법론을 개발하는 데 공헌할 것이다.
Objective measurement of patterns of nasal CPAP use by patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Obstruction of the upper airway during sleep (OSAS) is widely treated by having patients self-administer nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). To obtain objective evidence of the patterns of CPAP use, information was gathered from two urban sites on 35 OSAS patients who were prescribed CPAP for a total of 3,743 days. Patients were given CPAP machines that contained a microprocessor and monitor that measured actual pressure at the mask for every minute of each 24-h day for an average of 106 days per patient. They were not aware of the monitor inside the CPAP machines. Monitor output was compared with patients' diagnostic status, pretreatment clinical and demographic characteristics, and follow-up self-reports of CPAP use, problems, side effects, and aspects of daytime fatigue and sleepiness. Patients attempted to use CPAP an average of 66 +/- 37% of the days monitored. When CPAP was used, the mean duration of use was 4.88 +/- 1.97 h. However, patients' reports of the duration of CPAP use overestimated actual use by 69 +/- 110 min (p < 0.002). Both frequency and duration of CPAP use in the first month reliably predicted use in the third month (p < 0.0001). Although the majority (60%) of patients claimed to use CPAP nightly, only 16 of 35 (46%) met criteria for regular use, defined by at least 4 h of CPAP administered on 70% of the days monitored. Relative to less regular users, these 16 patients had more years of education (p = 0.05), and were more likely to work in professional occupations. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
The physiology of exercise under heat stress.

(91); Proceedings of the International Symposium on Behavio ral Temperature Regulation (10); Essays on Temperature Regulation (7); and Proceedings of the Dublin Symposium on Temperature Regu­ lation (92). The amount of research is too great to review effectively in the space allotted; consequently no effort was made to consider all papers in the period assigned. I have, therefore, confined myself to three aspects of acclimatization to heat­ the mechanisms, the role of physical conditioning, and certain practical aspects; three aspects of physiological responses to exercise in heat-the central circula­ tory and body fluid shifts, capacitance vessels, and core temperature; and three aspects of temperature regulation-the statistical evaluation of the effects on sweating and heat conductance of the input signals from Teore, r. , and other thermal sources, the use of Bullard's resistance hygrometer in holding local skin temperature, Tal, constant while varying other inputs and vice-versa, and the influence of modeling upon our concepts of temperature regulation.
A CMOS embedded RF-MEMS tunable capacitor for multi-band/multi-mode smartphones

This paper reports on 1-chip RF-MEMS tunable capacitor that equips CMOS driver circuit in the underlying layer. A Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) optimized for RF-MEMS is employed to minimize the module size. The MEMS actuation voltage is generated by an Actuation Voltage Generator (AVG). The boost mechanism employed in the AVG enables instant high voltage generation and reduction of the dielectric charging. The measured noise at RF frequencies is less than -120dbm, thanks to a shield metal layer formed between MEMS and CMOS layers. To achieve high power handing and high creep immunity, we employ the previously reported techniques, the Quadruple Series Capacitor (QSC) [1] and the SiN springs [2]. The quality factor measured in the WLCSP is larger than 100 at 1GHz. The capacitance can be changed from 1.4pF to 5pF by a step of 0.45pF.
OPTION VALUATION WITH MATHEMATICA

Studies in option pricing have became more important and challenging in financial area because option valuation can add significant information to the decision making process. In this study we attempt to establish the American and European call option. Call option gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation to buy a specified stock at a predetermined price on or before a predetermined date. An American option may be exercised earlier before the expiration date. For European options, early exercise is not possible. It can only be exercised only at maturity. In this paper, we do mathematical experiments to solve the problem of financial valuation using Mathematica.
Targeting intrinsically disordered proteins in rational drug discovery

Introduction: Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) have gained wide recognition over the past decade due to their versatile roles in cell physiology and pathology. A large repertoire of IDPs/IDPRs has been implicated in numerous diseases, making them potential targets for therapeutic intervention. Recent advances in experimental methods and computational approaches have enabled detection and characterization of these highly dynamic proteins at atomistic detail, thus facilitating disorder/dynamic-based drug discovery. Areas covered: This article presents an overview of the functional relevance and pathological implications of IDPs/IDPRs in cells. The authors outline the currently available experimental methods employed for structural characterization of these proteins. They also exemplify the practical limitations encountered during such characterization and ways to overcome them. Taken together, the article discusses the plausibility of exploiting protein disorder for drug targeting. Expert opinion: Disorder-based drug targeting is gearing up in the realm of novel drug discovery approaches. Tools for probing the molecular features of IDPs and IDPRs are rapidly improving and start to provide accurate descriptions of the complex ensembles populated by IDPs/IDPRs. They thus pave the way for the development of drug molecules, which specifically target disease-associated disorder.
Controlling migration performance of virtual machines according to user's requirements

Live Virtual Machine (VM) migration is an important technology for cloud management and guaranteeing a high service quality. However, existing studies are mainly focusing on improving migration performance but without much consideration of user's requirements. Also, the migration process is transparent to cloud managers and users. Once a migration is initialized, it is uncontrollable as desired. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze the migration process of pre-copy and figure out the relationship between migration performances and dynamic influence factors. Then, by taking user's requirements into consideration, a migration control algorithm is proposed through tuning the dynamic factors. The migration convergence problem of pre-copy is solved as well with the performance control algorithm. We base our study on Xen platform, and the experimental results verify the efficiency of our migration control algorithm.
Characterization of herpes simplex virus strains differing in their effects on social behaviour of infected cells.

Summary Established (laboratory) strains and fresh isolates of herpes simplex virus from patients with skin and genital lesions were classified into four groups depending on their effects on the social interaction among infected hep-2 cells. The groups comprised strains causing (1) rounding of cells but no adhesion or fusion, (2) loose aggregation of rounded cells, (3) tight adhesion of rounded cells, and (4) fusion of cells into polykaryocytes. Protype strains from each group were found to differ with respect to immunologic specificity, buoyant density in CsCl solutions and stability at 40°.
Fatigue is associated with quality of life in sarcoidosis patients.

BACKGROUND Fatigue is one of the core symptoms of sarcoidosis patients. Although it is known that fatigue affects quality of life (QOL) in other patient groups, this relationship has never been studied in sarcoidosis patients using a reliable and valid fatigue scale and a multidimensional QOL instrument. The present cross-sectional study among sarcoidosis patients attempts to gain more insight into this relationship. METHODS One hundred forty-five sarcoidosis patients of an outpatient pulmonary clinic in Zagreb, Croatia, completed the Fatigue Assessment Scale (FAS) and QOL scale (World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument-100) between January 2002 and May 2004. Clinical parameters were derived from the patients' medical files. RESULTS Tired patients reported a worse QOL in all domains and fatigue negatively predicted all QOL domains by means of multivariate regression analyses (beta values ranging from - 0.31 to - 0.64, all p < 0.001). Corticosteroid use was not a predictor of QOL. Diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide was the only clinical parameter associated with a QOL domain, namely level of independence. CONCLUSIONS Fatigue was related to all QOL domains. Furthermore, standard clinical parameters were not associated with fatigue or QOL, except for level of independence. If these results were to be replicated in a prospective study, fatigue as measured by the FAS could be a good indicator of QOL in sarcoidosis patients.
Superoxide Anion, the Main Species of ROS in the Development of ARDS Induced by Oleic Acid

It is believed that reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a very important role in the pathogenesis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but the mechanism has not been so clear, owing to the absence of direct measurable (experimental) data. In majority of the medical studies on free radicals, the analysis of ROS has generally been done by the way of measuring their secondary and breakdown products. In our study, we used electron spin resonance (ESR), a sensitive and accurate technique to detect ROS directly and also used some other sensitive techniques including ultra-weak luminescence and chemical luminescence to identify the species and relative amount of ROS. Furthermore, superoxide dismutase (SOD) was pre-administrated in ARDS rats to verify the results from the above studies and explore the possibility of the clinical application of SOD in ARDS. The spectra of ESR showed that the concentration of ROS increased at 10 min and reached a summit at 30 min after injection of oleic acid (OA), then dropped gradually. The scavenging effects of different scavenging agents on ROS by the analysis of ultra-weak luminescence proved that superoxide anion was the main species of ROS in the development of OA-induced ARDS. Moreover, the results of quantified measure of superoxide anion by chemical luminescence also showed the accordant tendency exhibited in ESR measurement. The pre-treatment of SOD might distinctly inhibit the production of superoxide anion, obviously improve the blood gas status, lung wet/dry ratio and lung/body ratio in ARDS rats. It is suggested that ROS may play a key role in the initiation phase of ARDS, while superoxide anion may be a leading actor in this process and SOD could effectively protect rats from ARDS. These results may provide helpful information for the treatment and prevention of ARDS.
Assessing Sexual Behavior in High-Risk Adolescents with the Adolescent Clinical Sexual Behavior Inventory (ACSBI)

This study examined the reliability and validity of the Adolescent Clinical Sexual Behavior Inventory (ACSBI), a new 45-item measure, designed to elicit parent-and self-report regarding a range of sexual behaviors in high-risk adolescents. Using this measure, this study also investigated predictors of adolescent sexual behavior. Participants were 174 adolescents and their parents consecutively admitted to one of three clinical settings (i.e., inpatient treatment, partial hospital program, and outpatient clinic). Parent-and self-reports of adolescent sexual behavior were moderately correlated, and there was a strong relationship between high-risk sexual behavior and adolescent emotional and behavioral problems, as well as sexual concerns, distress, and preoccupation. In addition to sexual abuse, physical abuse, life stress, and impaired family relationships also significantly predicted sexual behavior in adolescents.