Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
High Tech versus High Touch: Visitor Responses to the Use of Technology in Tourist Attractions

There are a number of current debates in the academic and management literature about the benefits and costs of introducing technology into tourist experiences. The debate is an important one for those who manage tourist attractions when making decisions about which directions to take in the development of visitor experiences. A review of the relevant literature in tourism suggests that very little attention has been paid to tourists' perceptions of, and interest in, the use of technology to create and enhance their experiences. This study sought to address this gap by surveying visitors to an Australian aquarium and asking them about their support for the adoption of various forms of exhibits. The results indicated that tourists can be grouped according to their support for the use of technology in visitor experiences and their levels of use of technology in general. A general model of tourist technology adoption is proposed and explored and implications of the results are discussed both for tourist attraction management and for future research into this phenomenon.
The Effects of Fashion Interest, Product Novelty and Product Quality on Brand Consciousness and Brand Loyalty in Fashion Apparel Purchase

The study examines the relationship fashion interest, product novelty and product quality on brand consciousness and brand loyalty in apparel purchase in Gauteng, South Africa. The study is located within a post-positivist paradigm using a quantitative method. Participants were 199 randomly selected students registered in 2013 from a University in South Africa. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the composition of the sample. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the relationships between the constructs. Validity and reliability were assessed through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Cronbach alpha values. The results show that that there are no significant casual relationships between fashion interest and brand consciousness. Significant casual relationships were found between product novelty and brand consciousness and product quality and brand consciousness. However, brand consciousness does not seem to influence brand loyalty. The study provides valuable implications for retailers and more specifically marketers, for the constant need to emphasise the product quality and product novelty aspects of fashion apparel in order generate opportunities for sales among this cohort of consumers. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014. v5n8p32
Reduce Power Consumption for Digital Cmos Circuits Using Dvts Algoritham

The Power consumption of large scale integrated circuits increasing with each generation which becomes a serious design issue. This paper proposed a generalized power tracking algorithm that reduces power directly by dynamic control of supply voltage and body bias. The DVTS algorithm-(Dynamic Voltage and threshold scaling algorithm) save the leakage power during active mode of the circuit. Total active power can be minimized by dynamically adjusting Vdd and Vth based on circuit operating conditions such as temperature, workload, and circuit architecture. The power saving method of DVTS is similar to that of the Dynamic VDD Scaling (DVS) scheme, which adaptively changes the supply voltage depending on the current workload of the system. For a digital circuit, it is possible to trade off dynamic and sub threshold leakage power by balancing between Vdd and Vth to maintain performance.
Effects of relationship benefits and relationship proneness on relationship outcomes: a three-country comparison

Relationship marketing is not equally effective in every country; this study investigates the potential moderating effects of individualism, long-term orientation (LTO), and consumer relationship proneness (CRP) on the links of relationship benefits with relational satisfaction, trust, and relationship commitment in a retail context. Multigroup analyses of a sample of 502 graduate students from the USA, France, and China revealed that consumers significantly differ in their perceptions of relational benefits, relationship proneness, trust, relational satisfaction, and commitment. Moreover, positive relationships of relational benefits with trust, relational satisfaction, and commitment are moderated by CRP and cultural factors (individualism and LTO). Therefore, personality traits and national culture both exert important influences on consumer attitudes toward relationship benefits and retail relationships. Both factors accordingly should be taken into consideration in segmentation decisions and when developing international marketing strategies. Managerial implications are discussed.
Characterization of rotavirus strains from newborns in New Delhi, India

Between 1986 and 1993, 72% of rotavirus strains isolated from newborns at five hospitals in New Delhi, India, had long electropherotypes, subgroup II VP6 antigens, and G and P genotypes (G9P11) identical to those of prototype strain 116E. A novel strain with a G9P6 genotype, representing 13% of the isolates, was identified. These results demonstrate that G9P11 and G9P6 rotavirus strains are common in nurseries in New Delhi.
Cluster Headache in the Taiwanese — a Clinic-Based Study

Cluster headache has not been fully investigated in Asians. One hundred and four patients (90M/14F; mean age 39.2 ± 12.2 years) with cluster headache were recruited from two major headache clinics in Taiwan. They filled out a structured cluster headache questionnaire. All participants were diagnosed to have episodic cluster headache. Mean age of onset was 26.9 years; mean latency of diagnosis was 8.1 years. A trend of decrease in male/female ratio with time was noted. Seventy-three percent were ex- or current smokers (M: 79%, F: 36%). Restlessness was reported by 51% patients. Only 1 patient (1%) reported visual aura. Patients responded well to standard acute and prophylactic treatment. The monthly incidence of cluster period was inversely related to sunshine duration. Compared to Western series, our patients were different in several aspects including the absence of chronic cluster headaches and a low prevalence of restlessness and aura. Racial and geographical factors might contribute to these discrepancies.
THE IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING PROGRAMME ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ZIMBABWE: A CASE OF GWERU

Zimbabwe and the other developing countries struggle to achieve economic growth and development through small and medium scale enterprises. The Zimbabwean has put small and medium scale enterprises as an important key to fight against poverty, help create more employment and income generating programs, create more wealth through increasing productivity in the SMEs Sector. Most SMEs facing viability problems over the past years mainly due to lack of business expertise. The study sought to assess the impact of entrepreneurship training programme on economic development in Zimbabwe. The study used stratified sampling technique; questionnaires were distributed to a sample of 25 entrepreneurs and including 3 SEDCO staff. Data was analyzed using the statistical package for social scientist (SPSS). The research found that most entrepreneurs lacked stock management, business plan, business skills and ethics, operations and strategic management and production management. Some of the entrepreneurs got training from government institution such as SEDCO, Hope Humana and through NGOs that were Implementing developmental projects. The main conclusion was that entrepreneurship training programmes are ineffective, the major courses being offered was bookkeeping and the only benefit of attending such programs was the ability to draw from book of accounts and receiving loans from the government. The research recommended that training programs should engage in diversifying of trainers to provide a one stop shop for addressing all the problems of entrepreneurs, and the scope of training should be widening, including practical guide of how to run a business, to ensure sustainable development.
Verification of simple calibration method for multi-baseline SAR tomography

SAR Tomography processing by using multiple SAR images can create a 3-D image including the height distribution of scatterers. The height estimation can be realized assuming that the multi-baseline observation data as an array data in the DOA (direction of arrival) estimation methods. Orbit error in observation might cause DOA/height errors in imaging results; therefore, calibration of orbits or equivalent phase compensation is necessary. In this report, we evaluate a simple calibration method by simple phase compensation for multi-baseline datasets and show experimental results by using the Pi-SAR2-X datasets.
Bmp signaling is required for intestinal growth and morphogenesis

Intestinal growth, morphogenesis, differentiation, and homeostasis are regulated by reciprocal interactions between the epithelium and the underlying mesenchymal stroma. The identification of BMPR1A mutations in patients with Juvenile Polyposis implicates Bmp signaling as an important mediator of these interactions. To test this hypothesis, we inhibited Bmp signaling in the mouse proximal intestine by transgenic misexpression of the BMP antagonist, noggin, using regulatory elements of the fatty acid binding protein (Fabp1) gene. This leads to abnormal villus morphogenesis, stromal and epithelial hyperplasia, and ectopic crypt formation. The resulting intestinal histopathology resembles that seen in human Juvenile Polyposis. Misexpression of noggin in the large intestine gives a similar abnormal phenotype in this region of the gut. Analysis of gene expression in the transgenic small intestine raises the possibility that Hedgehog and Pdgf signaling play a role in the development of the Juvenile Polyposis‐like phenotype. Developmental Dynamics 235:1563–1570, 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Synthesis of the heptadecapeptide corresponding to the entire amino acid sequence of salmon melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH).

The heptadecapeptide corresponding to the entire amino acid sequence of melaninconcentrating hormone (MCH), isolated from chum salmon pituitaries, was synthesized by successive condensation of four peptide fragments and the N-terminal amino acid, i. e. , Boc-(14-17)-OBzl, Boc-(9-13)-OH, Boc-(5-8)-NHNH2, Boc-(2-4)-NHNH2 and Boc-Asp (OBzl)-OH, followed by deprotection with 1 M trifluoromethanesulfonic acid-thioanisole in trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and disulfide formation through the S-sulfonate. When melanin-concentrating activity was measured on a tilapia scale, the minimum effective concentration of the synthetic peptide was equivalent to that of natural salmon MCH (1nM).
Using linked data to more comprehensively measure the quality of care for stroke - understanding the issues

This article brings together a summary of the current issues in the utilisation of available Australian data to better understand the quality of health care. Data linkage is an important method that can help to reduce the burden of collecting data. However, issues related to governance and ethics, and technical processes such as data quality and analysis, can be significant impediments to undertaking data linkage projects. These issues may be exacerbated when attempting to link non-government clinical registry data with routinely collected government data. We outline these issues and some possible solutions using the condition of stroke as a case study. This article represents a summary of the proceedings of national workshop on the topic of data linkage and stroke.
Advertainment or Adcreep Game Players’ Attitudes toward Advertising and Product Placements in Computer Games

ABSTRACT Using netnography and questionnaires, we examine how commercial practices are interpreted by electronic game-players. An analysis of 805 postings on Slashdot (2002-2004) revealed active discussions and insight into gamers’ beliefs about the effectiveness and appropriateness of marketers’ tactics as well as the perceived impact on self. Players were fairly positive about brands in games when they added realism. Those who were negative about product placements were also negative about advertising. While some players did not think they were influenced by product placements, others reported instances of learning about and then purchasing new brands. A survey of gamers empirically tested observations from the netnography. Positive relationships between attitudes toward advertising in general and attitudes toward product placement in games were noted, and each of these was positively related to perceived impact on purchasing behaviors. Attitudes toward product placements in games partially mediated the effect of attitudes toward advertising on respondents’ perceived purchasing behaviors.
An automatic JPEG ghost detection approach for digital image forensics

In this paper we propose a new automatic method for discriminating original and tampered images based on “JPEG ghost detection” method, which is a subset of format-based image forensics approaches. The inconsistency of quality factors indicates that the photo is a composite one created from at least two different cameras and therefore it is a manipulated photo. Our classification algorithm first extracts the ghost border. Then the image is classified as original or tampered groups by thresholding a distance in feature space.
LOCATION TRACKING MITIGATION FOR HONEST NODES AND LOCATION ESTIMATION OF UNCOOPERATIVE DEVICES IN WIRELESS MOBILE NETWORKS

Wireless mobile networks are on the cusp of actualizing revolutionary advances in many areas, including public safety. Vehicular communications, for example, can convey real-time, life-preserving notifications of impending collisions and other hazards, and thus reduce the daily carnage on our roads. To bolster public faith in mobile networks and ensure that these don’t fall prey to unscrupulous attackers, their security vulnerabilities must be exposed in a methodical fashion and suitably mitigated. Yet many novel wireless technologies face a difficult quandary in their need to meet two seemingly orthogonal requirements: network security and user privacy. Security measures must guarantee that the originators of broadcast messages are authorized, and that their transmissions have integrity and are non-repudiable. Concurrently, honest cooperative mobile devices must be assured of a reasonable degree of privacy without the threat of location tracking over time and space. We aim to harmonize wireless network security requirements with the preservation of location privacy by addressing three interdependent issues: the identification and assessment of serious risks to emerging wireless technologies; the mitigation of the location tracking threat in vehicular networks; and the localization of uncooperative wireless devices for the purpose of attack attribution or emergency assistance. Our contributions in reconciling security requisites with location privacy in wireless mobile networks are thus three-fold: 1. We conduct a threat analysis into the risks to vehicular networks and compare the results with known threats to wireless access technology in order to assess the security of mobile networks in general. We identify location tracking and insider attacks as critical threats. 2. We examine the risk of location tracking in vehicular networks, and propose a scheme to secure vulnerable broadcast messages while preserving driver anonymity. We find that our approach achieves this goal, with smaller message sizes and more computationally efficient cryptographic operations. 3. (i) We explore the threat posed by uncooperative mobile network devices,
Investigation of current dependencies of displacement under variable load for giant magnetostrictive actuators

The dependencies of displacement on current under different variable loads for giant magnetostrictive actuators are computed by using the finite-element method and measured. It is found that the computed result is in agreement with the measured one. This indicates that the finite-element model is valid for computing the displacement for actuators under variable load, and it can be used to design actuators.
Molecular basis of interaction between NG2 proteoglycan and galectin‐3

Previous work has demonstrated the ability of the NG2 proteoglycan, a component of microvascular pericytes, to stimulate endothelial cell motility and morphogenesis. This function of NG2 depends on formation of a complex with galectin‐3 and α3β1 integrin to stimulate integrin‐mediated transmembrane signaling. In addition, the co‐expression of galectin‐3 and NG2 in A375 melanoma cells suggests that the malignant properties of these cells may be affected by interaction between the two molecules. Here, we extend the theme of co‐expression and interaction of NG2 and galectin‐3 to human glioma cells. We also establish a molecular basis for the NG2/galectin‐3 interaction. The C‐terminal carbohydrate recognition domain of galectin‐3 is responsible for binding to the NG2 core protein. Within the NG2 extracellular domain, the membrane‐proximal D3 segment of the proteoglycan contains the primary binding site for interaction with galectin‐3. The interaction between galectin‐3 and NG2 is a carbohydrate‐dependent one mediated by N‐linked rather than O‐linked oligosaccharides within the D3 domain of the NG2 core protein. These studies establish a foundation for attempts to reduce the aggressive properties of tumor cells by disrupting the NG2/galectin‐3 interaction. J. Cell. Biochem. 98: 115–127, 2006. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Single-trial variable model for event-related fMRI data analysis

Most methods for fMRI data analysis assume that the hemodynamic responses (HRs) across similar experimental events are same. This assumption is not appropriate when HRs vary unpredictably from trial to trial. Here, we introduce a new method for fMRI data analysis. The main features of the proposed method are as follows: 1) The trial-to-trial variability is modeled as meaningful signal rather than assuming that the same HR is evoked in each trial; 2) Since the proposed method is a constrained optimization based general framework, it could be extended by utilizing prior knowledge of HR; 3) The traditional deconvolution method can be included into our method as a special case. A comparison of performance on simulated fMRI datasets is made using the general linear model, the deconvolution method and the proposed method with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) methodology. In addition, we examined the effectiveness and usefulness of our method on real experimental data.
Energy consumption measurements and reduction of Zigbee based wireless sensor networks

This paper discusses energy consumption reduction in Zigbee based networks. We introduce energy consumption benchmarking platform (ECBP) - a versatile data acquisition based energy consumption profiling system for WSNs. The ECBP can be utilized to find power intensive processes in a given system, discover energy consumption anomalies and wasted power, measure active duty and sleep cycles, measure voltage, current, power, and energy consumption for a given time period, and discover power consumption related faults in sensor networks. We show how to use ECBP on a Zigbee based sensor network to reduce power consumption by an order of magnitude, thus, extending the network lifetime by the same factor.
Structural Analysis of Xanthomonas XopD Provides Insights into Substrate Specificity of Ubiquitin-like Protein Proteases*

XopD (Xanthomonas outer protein D), a type III secreted effector from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria, is a desumoylating enzyme with strict specificity for its plant small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) substrates. Based on SUMO sequence alignments and peptidase assays with various plant, yeast, and mammalian SUMOs, we identified residues in SUMO that contribute to XopD/SUMO recognition. Further predictions regarding the enzyme/substrate specificity were made by solving the XopD crystal structure. By incorporating structural information with sequence alignments and enzyme assays, we were able to elucidate determinants of the rigid SUMO specificity exhibited by the Xanthomonas virulence factor XopD.
Reading of cracked optical discs using Iterative Learning Control

Optical discs, including Compact Discs (CDs), Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs), and Blu-ray Discs (BDs), can get cracked during storage and usage. Such cracks commonly lead to discontinuities in the data track, potentially preventing reading of the data on the disc. The aim of the present paper is to improve tracking performance of the optical disc drive in the presence of cracks. A Hankel Iterative Learning Control (ILC) algorithm is presented that can perfectly steer the lens during the crack towards the beginning of the track immediately after the crack, i.e., the actuator is steered appropriately during the crack crossing to compensate for the discontinuity in the data track. Experimental results confirm improved reading capabilities of cracked discs. The presented approach potentially enables the recovery of data from cracked discs that were previously considered as unreadable.
Local Business Perceptions of Weather Impacts on Tourism in Svalbard, Norway

Tourism in Svalbard, Norway has expanded rapidly in recent decades due to increased accessibility and the region’s appeal as a perceived wilderness destination. Using two-stage interviews with employees, mainly operators/owners, from thirteen small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Longyearbyen, this article explores the tourism and hospitality industry’s perceptions of weather’s impacts on their business. Perceptions of how future weather trends, expected due to climate change, will impact their work are also examined. Three main categories from the surveys comprise the results and discussion. First, weather is one factor amongst many affecting business operations and is not seen as being important. Second, the interviewees’ comments on changing weather requiring business flexibility and adaptation are discussed in the context of day-to-day and inter-annual variability, as well as longer-term climate change. Third, SME interviewees’ thoughts are described and analyzed regarding their perceptions of the weather preferences of and impacts on the tourists whom the businesses serve. Overall, weather is seen as being comparatively unimportant for SMEs’ operational decisions at any time scale. Instead, they accept weather as something that must be dealt with as it comes—part of life in the Arctic. This pragmatic attitude matches SMEs’ approaches in general in terms of not planning strategically for either the short-term or long-term. That works well at the moment since many tourists travel to the Arctic assuming that the weather is part of the experience, plus they cannot go elsewhere from Svalbard in case of inclement weather. Nevertheless, SMEs could consider longer-term planning to address climate change.
iphtheria : A zoonotic disease in France ?

Thanks to vaccination, diphtheria has almost disappeared in France. The case definition, used for mandatory notification, was expanded in 2003 to include toxin-producing strains of Corynebacterium ulcerans. eceived in revised form 1 April 2009 ccepted 16 April 2009 vailable online 5 May 2009