Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Side-Effects of Permissions Requested by Mobile Banking on Android Platform: A Case Study of Morocco

No one among us can deny that Android has become in the last years one of the most popular mobile operating systems worldwide, as the price of this popularity, Android becomes the favorite destination of hackers and the main target of various attacks, which takes advantage of the users' ignorance. Nowadays, Android security has become a big problem due to the free app provided and features that make it very easy for anyone to develop it. Among the applications installed under Android we found M-Banking applications that are of course infected by the security problems that surround Android applications in all the coasts and we mention here especially the permissions requested when installing an M-Banking application that had in most cases no relation with their features or services provided. In this paper, we investigated the danger of the permissions requested by mobile banking applications, their effects on sensitive user data and that their relationship with the attack called "Man in the middle" and its different forms and we took Morocco as a case of study.
Detection of Transient Inter-regional Coupling in fMRI Time Series: A New Method Combining Inter-subjects Synchronization and Cluster-Analyses

We present a new method for the analysis of fMRI time series. The aim is to identify functionally-relevant transient "bursts" of inter-regional coupling between brain areas, using a fully data-driven approach. We use inter-subjects synchronization (i.e. correlation between time series of different subjects who are presented with the same sensory input) to isolate relevant transients in the fMRI time series. Next, we apply a first cluster analysis to group together areas that show such synchronized activity in a concurrent manner. Finally, a second cluster analysis identifies patterns of the fMRI signal that repeat consistently across the different transients. The final output of the analysis is a set of networks that show transient patterns of functionally relevant fMRI signal, consistently over specific windows of the time series. Importantly, the fMRI signal can differ between different areas belonging to the same network. This new approach is particularly suited to investigate multi-components control processes using naturalistic stimuli during fMRI.
Organizational Buyer Behavior of Caribbean Food and Beverage Importers

Abstract This paper examines the behavior of Caribbean importers with respect to the purchase of branded food and beverage products manufactured in the Canadian province of Ontario. The determinants of the import purchase decision are identified, and the import response of buyers to changes in the importance rating of key purchase criteria is quantified. The study is based on personal interviews with forty-eight Caribbean food and beverage purchasing executives. The results indicate that price and requests from local customers are the most important decision criteria used by Caribbean importers. Also, firms with a recent history of importing Ontario food and beverage products place a higher level of importance on brand image and package design. A one-unit decrease in the importance rating of the packaging design variable was found to increase the odds of a firm importing from Ontario by thirty percent.
The Transformational Power of Digital Feedback

ABSTRACT This paper reports research that used digital technology to provide feedback on individual and social performance. The research shows that digital feedback that traces an individual’s performance (e.g. energy usage, distance walked) can influence behaviour and change the way in which people think about their everyday activities. Categories and Subject Descriptors Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.5. 2 [User Interfaces: Miscellaneous] : General Terms Measurement, Performance, Design, Experimentation Keywords feedback, social norms approach, physical activity, walking, mobile phone, domestic electricity, sustainability 1. INTRODUCTION This paper reports research that used digital technology to provide feedback on individual and social performance. The research shows that digital feedback that traces an individual’s performance (e.g. energy usage, distance walked) can influence behaviour and change the ways that people think about their everyday activities. The CHARM project was funded by the Digital Economy programme. CHARM compared digital feedback of individual performance with feedback that included both individual performance and average group performance. CHARM draws on the Social Norms Approach, which influences behaviour by communicating the average performance of a relevant reference group. This approach that has been successfully applied to alcohol and substance-abuse amongst students [1], sexual behaviour [2], bullying [3], hotel towel re-use [3] and domestic electricity consumption [5, 6, 7]. These studies have generally ignored the influence of personalised
3D vision systems for industrial bin-picking applications

This paper relates to a vision-based system for robotic grasping of various objects randomly organized in a bin. In other words, this work deals with the bin-picking problem where the objects that are about to recognize by the vision system are placed in a bin non-oriented, interlocked, jumbled and/or heavily occluding each other. Concerning the industrial applications, demands for a functional technology to cope with the problem are still rising. In this paper we present a short review regarding the bin-picking applications followed by selected results concerned with the system structure description, control system structure, bin-picking methodology and pilot testing projects solutions.
Comparative Evaluation of 16S, map1 and pCS20 Probes for the Detection of Cowdria and Ehrlichia Species in Ticks a

ABSTRACT: We have developed a panel of 16S ribosomal RNA gene probes for heartwater epidemiology; five of these detect different Cowdria genotypes (Ball3, Senegal, Omatjenne, Crystal Springs, and Mara 87/7); one detects all five of these genotypes; one detects any Group III Ehrlichia species other than Cowdria; one detects any Group II Ehrlichia species. We have used these probes on PCR‐amplified rickettsial 16S rRNA genes from over 200 Amblyomma ticks. Control ticks were laboratory‐reared and either uninfected or fed on sheep experimentally infected with different Cowdria isolates, field ticks were harvested from animals in heartwater‐endemic and heartwater‐free areas. All the samples were also examined by PCR amplification and probing for two other Cowdria genes (map1 and pCS20) which have been used for heartwater epidemiology. This paper describes the first direct comparison of all the currently available DNA probes for heartwater‐associated organisms.
Buccal mucosal graft for secondary hypospadias repair and urethral replacement.

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of buccal mucosa in the treatment of complex hypospadias. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventeen patients had an onlay patch of buccal mucosa to reconstruct the urethra after failed previous surgery; five had a tubed buccal mucosal graft as an urethral replacement in the 'primary' repair of severe hypospadias. RESULTS There were no complications in 19 patients; two developed fistulae and one a stricture due to graft narrowing. There were no meatal complications. CONCLUSION Buccal mucosa taken from the inner aspect of the lip is very suitable for reconstructing a failed hypospadias repair, especially when used as an onlay graft.
S-Net: From Answer Extraction to Answer Generation for Machine Reading Comprehension

In this paper, we present a novel approach to machine reading comprehension for the MS-MARCO dataset. Unlike the SQuAD dataset that aims to answer a question with exact text spans in a passage, the MS-MARCO dataset defines the task as answering a question from multiple passages and the words in the answer are not necessary in the passages. We therefore develop an extraction-then-synthesis framework to synthesize answers from extraction results. Specifically, the answer extraction model is first employed to predict the most important sub-spans from the passage as evidence, and the answer synthesis model takes the evidence as additional features along with the question and passage to further elaborate the final answers. We build the answer extraction model with state-of-the-art neural networks for single passage reading comprehension, and propose an additional task of passage ranking to help answer extraction in multiple passages. The answer synthesis model is based on the sequence-to-sequence neural networks with extracted evidences as features. Experiments show that our extraction-then-synthesis method outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
[A case-control study on the quality of life and the way of response among patients with anxiety disorder in Shandong province].

OBJECTIVE To explore the characteristics related to the quality of life and the way of response among patients with anxiety disorder in Shandong province. METHODS Case-control study was adopted, with secondary data analysis on mental disorders among adults over 18 years of age, in Shandong province. 720 patients with anxiety disorder who met the anxiety diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV, were selected from the database, according to the distributions on gender, age (±3 years of age), village or community. 720 persons without any psychiatric diagnosis were selected and served as controls, under 1 :1 paired choice. Research tools would include:General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12),Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ), Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ), and questionnaire on general information. RESULTS Scores of QLQ among patients with anxiety disorder were lower than that of the control group, with statistically significant difference(P < 0.01). Scores on the negative ways of coping among patients with anxiety disorder were higher than the scores of the control group, with statistically significant difference(P < 0.01). Regardless of gender, age, occupation, education, marriage, religious belief etc., results from the 'two factors anova-analysis' showed that the scores of QLQ among patients with anxiety disorder were still lower than the scores of the control group while the scores on negative coping were still higher than the scores of the control group. CONCLUSION Patients with anxiety disorder and having poor quality of life outnumbered the ones from the control group, and using negative coping ways to cope with the stress events.
Service Delivery Innovation

Service innovation is one means of gaining an advantage in a highly competitive environment. In addition, service delivery has played a key role in interactions with customers in recent years. Yet, research on the link between innovation and service delivery is scant. This article theoretically and empirically examines innovation in service delivery and its antecedents and consequences. The authors identify innovation orientation, external partner collaboration, and information technology capability as the antecedents of service delivery innovation and analyze the impact of service delivery innovation on firm performance. Respondents were managers in the marketing and information technology departments of financial firms in Taiwan. Overall, 298 responses were received (including 123 paired responses from both department managers). Findings indicated that service delivery innovation contributes to firm performance. These results support the crucial influences of innovation orientation and information technology capability on service delivery innovation.
Horizontal Multinational Firms, Vertical Multinational Firms and Domestic Investment

We build a dynamic general equilibrium model with 2 countries, horizontal and vertical multinational activity and endogenous domestic and foreign investment. It is found that horizontal multinational activity always leads to a complementary relationship between domestic and foreign investment. Vertical multinational activity, in contrast, leads to either a substitutional or complementary relationship between domestic and foreign investment, depending on the firms' technologies. We test the theoretical implications with a panel of U.S. multinationals and find empirical support.
A Novel Interaction between the Juxtamembrane Region of the p55 Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor and Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-Kinase*

Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) binding to its receptors leads to a diversity of biological responses. The actions of TNF are the result of the interaction of cytoplasmic proteins that bind directly to the intracellular domains of the two TNF receptors, p55 and p75. Here we report a novel interaction between the juxtamembrane region of the p55 TNF receptor and a newly discovered 47-kDa isoform of phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase (PIP5K), a member of the enzyme family that generates the key signaling messenger, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. The interaction was found to be specific for the p55 TNF receptor and was not observed with the p75 TNF receptor, the Fas antigen, or the p75 neurotrophin receptor, which are other members of the TNF receptor superfamily. In vitro experiments using recombinant fusion proteins verify the authenticity of the interaction between the p55 receptor and PIP5KIIβ, a new isoform of PIP5K, but not the previously identified 53-kDa PIP5KIIα. Treatment of HeLa cells with TNF-α resulted in an increased PIP5K activity. These results indicate that phosphatidylinositol turnover may be linked to stimulation of the p55 TNF receptor and suggest that a subset of TNF responses may result from the direct association of PIP5KIIβ with the p55 TNF receptor.
Relative antigen levels affect bispecific antibody behavior 1 Impact of Cell-Surface Antigen Expression on Target Engagement and Function of an EGFR x c-Met Bispecific Antibody *

The efficacy of engaging multiple drug targets using bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) is affected by the relative cell surface protein levels of the respective targets. In this work, the receptor density values were correlated to the in vitro activity of a BsAb (JNJ-61186372) targeting epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and hepatocyte growth factor receptor (c-Met). Simultaneous binding of the BsAb to both receptors were confirmed in vitro. By using controlled Fab-arm exchange (cFAE), a set of BsAbs targeting EGFR and c-Met was generated to establish an accurate receptor quantitation of a panel of lung and gastric cancer cell lines expressing heterogeneous levels of EGFR and c-Met. EGFR and c-Met receptor density levels were correlated to the respective gene expression levels as well as to the respective receptor phosphorylation inhibition values. We observed a bias in BsAb binding toward the more highly expressed of the two receptors, EGFR or c-Met, which resulted in the enhanced in vitro potency of JNJ-61186372 against the less highly expressed target. On the basis of these observations, we propose an avidity model of how JNJ-61186372 engages EGFR and c-Met with potentially broad implications for bispecific drug efficacy
Saving and using encountered information: implications for electronic periodicals

As part of a focus on electronic publications, we undertook an exploratory study of how people saved and used the information they encountered while reading. In particular, we wanted to understand the role of clipping and whether it would be a necessary form of interaction with electronic publications. We interviewed 20 diverse individuals at home and at work, bringing together narrative accounts and physical and digital examples to investigate how people currently collect and use clippings from their everyday reading. All study participants had examples of materials they had deliberately saved from periodicals, ranging from ads torn from newspapers and URLs received in email messages to large stacks of magazines. Participants rarely read periodicals specifically to clip but rather recognized items of interest when they were encountered. The work highlights the importance of encountering information as an activity distinct from task-focused browsing and searching and reveals design implications for online reading and clipping technologies.
How Internal and External Supervisors Influence Employees' Self-Serving Decisions

The current investigation examined the effects of internal and external supervisors (i.e., formally installed institutions that hold employees accountable for their actions) on employees' self-serving decisions. In two studies, it was found that internal supervisors reduced self-serving decisions more strongly than external supervisors did because they hold more position power over employees. The findings further suggest that the presence of both supervisors did not provide additive advantages, as employees primarily responded to internal supervisors. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.
Formal Contractual Governance Mechanisms, Contract Contingencies, Inter-Organizational Trust, Supplier Opportunism and Outsourcing Performance

The purpose of this study was to explicate the influence of formal contractual governance mechanisms, contract contingencies, inter-organizational trust and supplier opportunism on outsourcing performance. This research was prompted by reports of increased poor outsourcing performance characterized by poor quality of services provided, incomplete and substandard work, failure to deliver on agreed schedules, increased user complaints and contract violations in Uganda’s public sector. Anecdotal evidence attributes poor outsourcing performance to lack of clearly designed formal contractual governance mechanism, failure to handle contract contingencies, lack of inter-organizational trust and existence of high levels of supplier opportunism. Hence this study was guided by the following research question: Do formal contractual governance mechanisms, contract contingencies, inter-organizational trust and supplier opportunism influence outsourcing performance? Cross sectional and quantitative survey data drawn from 612 contract managers in Uganda’s public sector (i.e. ministries, commissions and government parastatals) revealed that formal contractual governance mechanisms, contract contingencies, inter-organizational trust and supplier opportunism are significant predictors of outsourcing performance. Results of this study have managerial and theoretical implications that are presented in this paper.
Frontier Based Multi Robot Area Exploration Using Prioritized Routing

The paper deals with multi-robot centralized autonomous area exploration of unknown environment with static obstacles. A simple reasoning algorithm based on preassignment of routing priority is proposed. The algorithm tracks the frontiers and assigns the robots to the frontiers when the robots fall into a trap situation. The algorithm is simulated with various multi-robotic configurations in different environments and compared with performance indices in the MATLAB simulation environment.
ERP Systems and Management Accounting: A Methodological Note from a Multiple Case Study

This paper seeks to show that the framing of qualitative research affects the responses received from respondents. Thirty-nine participants, including chief financial officers, from 20 major New Zealand firms were interviewed. The research demonstrates that framing the questions affects responses. The research also augments our understanding of the impact of ERP systems on management accounting and management accountants. More specifically, ERP provide the capacity to drill-down from financial numbers to non-financial numbers; and by supporting more granular and non-financial explanations, they allow for a more insightful understanding of the drivers of financial numbers.
Scene Classification with the Discriminative Representation

Scene classification is an extremely challenging task owing to the complexity of the scene content. In this paper, a novel method is designed to harvest the discriminative representation for the scene classification. The proposed model simultaneously takes both discriminative patches and entire scene image into consideration. First, the discriminative patches are extracted from the raw scene image by an iterative algorithm. Then, the convolutional neural network is employed to capture the high-level semantic features from discriminative patches and entire image, respectively. Next, the modified VLAD is exploited to aggregate the features of discriminative patches into local feature. Finally, the global feature generated from the entire image is concatenated with the local feature to be the discriminative representation for classification. The proposed outperforms several state-of-the-art methods on the MIT 67 Indoor and Scene 15 database.
A Profile of Australian Regional SME Non-Adopters of E-commerce

Abstract The sluggish pace of e-commerce adoption by regional SMEs in Australia is well documented and has been attributed to various barriers faced by the SME. The association between these barriers and business profile factors is not so well understood. This paper presents a study of 247 non-adopting regional SMEs. The study shows that it is the organisational barriers, rather than the technical barriers, that appear to be uppermost in the minds of owner/managers where e-commerce adoption is concerned. The data also shows that the gender of the owner/manager, together with the market focus of the business, are associated with the rating of importance of barriers to e-commerce adoption.
Pulmonary Metastases Tumor Doubling Time: Assessment by Computed Tomography

Growth rate is a prognostic factor for pulmonary metastases treatment. We used computed tomography (CT) to quantify tumor doubling time (Tdt) variation of pulmonary metastases in the same patient, from different histologies and sizes. We prospectively evaluated chest CTs of patients with pulmonary metastases under no cancer treatment. Tdt of 408 pulmonary nodules in 21 patients was determined. One hundred twenty-three (30%) remained unaltered, 44 (11%) had reduction, and 241 (59%) increased in size. Nodules that grew presented a mean Tdt of 118 ± 134 days (range: 22–930 days). There was high intraindividual variability of mean Tdt with no difference between histologies. Smaller nodules presented greater tendency to grow, and lower Tdt. There is large variation in clinical behavior for pulmonary metastases in the same patient. Each nodule should be evaluated independently. Selection of a single nodule to evaluate metastatic disease behavior could influence the therapeutic decision.
Self‐protection vs opportunity seeking in business buying behavior: an experimental study

Purpose – Theories on industrial buying behavior differ fundamentally with regard to motivation and direction of industrial purchasing decisions. This becomes extremely in the case of new institutional economics, highlighting administrative aspects, and market process theory, focusing on entrepreneurial aspects of buying decisions. This paper aims to challenge these approaches by setting up an experimental design. Decisions of sales and purchasing managers were investigated with respect to their motivation of self‐protection or opportunity seeking.Design/methodology/approach – The contribution is based on an experimental design. The design is based on a prospect theory scenario. Prospect theory states that successful economic agents show a stronger tendency towards self‐protection, whereas under‐performing economic agents are willing to bear greater risks in search for opportunities.Findings – The results suggest that indeed out‐performers show a tendency to risk avoidance and under‐performers are willing.