Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
I Will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato

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Second and third-order distortion suppression technique for noise canceling CMOS LNAs

A technique for simultaneous cancellation of noise, second-order distortion and third-order distortion in CMOS LNAs is presented. The proposed LNA topology consists of a matching stage and two common-source amplifier stages, performing single-ended to differential signal conversion with balanced output. The second and third-order nonlinearity of the individual amplifiers as well as the distortion caused by the interaction between the stages are suppressed to achieve high IIP3. A method for intrinsic cancellation of the second-order interaction is employed to reduce the dependence of the IIP3 on the frequency spacing between the interfering signals in the two-tone test.
Soft Fault Diagnosis in Analog Circuit Based on Fuzzy and Direction Vector

A basic circuit theory of fault diagnosis for analog circuits with parameter tolerance is proposed in this paper. The approach uses the direction vector of voltage increment in test nodes as a fault signature for predefined faults. A linear equation is built to locate a faulty element. On the condition that the component tolerances are taken into account, the concepts of direction vector and fuzzy analysis method are combined together to analyze a parametric fault. Examples illustrate the proposed approach and show its eectiveness.
Outsourcing Decision-Making

In recent years, outsourcing deals have increased in number and the strategic importance of the decision-making process has correspondingly increased. This chapter reviews various strategic frameworks that practitioners have attempted to develop for outsourcing decision-making and highlights the differences between proposed theories and current practice. While outsourcing decision-making is multi-faceted in nature, the frameworks reviewed appear to be largely mono-faceted in coverage, which indicates potential inadequacies in existing capabilities. The chapter proposes a framework to address such inadequacies by means of a tri-perspective approach, which extends the decision-making process to take into consideration issues from multiple domains. The proposed framework highlights a wide variety ofissues, ranging from the need to maintain internal expertise, to how national legislations can enforce unique constraints on the outsourcing decision-making process. The framework also attempts to provide a multi-perspective approach, which is required of current outsourcing decision-making practices, to enable both quantitative measurements and qualitative articulations.
Consumer Watchdogs on the Internet - Protecting Consumers Against Counterfeiting

Watchdogs on the Internet – Protecting Consumers against Online FraudL. SimpsonDepartment of Marketing,University of Otago,New ZealandCounterfeiting is one of the biggest growth industries in the world (Alcok, Chen, Ch’ng, Hodson et al 2003). The rise of the ‘super counterfeit’ has meant that consumers are often paying large amounts of money for products they believe are genuine (Nia and Zaichkowsky 2000). Some consumers have set themselves up as self-styled ‘watchdogs’, campaigning about this type of fraud by educating their more naïve counterparts. This research is concerned with two key issues – firstly the question of what motivates certain consumers to set themselves up in this way and secondly to assess how consumers in general react to such ‘watchdogs’ and to what extend they utilize these services.
The Performance of Third Grade Learning Disabled Boys on Tasks at Different Levels of Language

Twelve learning disabled third graders, 15 normally achieving third graders and 11 normally achieving first graders were given a number of different language tasks to measure language performance at the syntactic, semantic, orthographic, and discourse levels. Results indicate significant overall differences between the learning disabled children and their normally achieving peers, but differences between the learning disabled children and the reading level matched first graders were not significant. The data also were submitted to a set of model based regressions, testing several models used to discuss the language differences of learning disabled children (Rule Abstraction, Language in General, Speed of Processing). Implications for both classroom practice and further research in this area are discussed.
Perceived Youth: Appraisal and Characterization

Results from a mail survey of respondents aged sixty to ninety-four suggest that psychographic dimensions of youthfulness and identification with old age constitute effective inner-age research variables, especially to those seeking to study older populations. The two specific dimensions explored are: “perceived youth,” a magnitude measure of the proportional discrepancy between chronological and cognitive ages; and “feeling-old,” which inversely measured youth through reliance on a six-point Likert agree/disagree statement: “I feel old. …” In addition to the obvious inverse relationship between these inner-ages, research established trait covariation relative to an increase in perceived youth coincidental with a rejection of a feeling-old identity, corresponding to increases in “happiness, own-health rating, being venturesome, giving advice, self-esteem, social activity, and keeping-in-shape,” as well as decreases in “taking advice, being a homebody, and having health worries. ”
Job related factors and moderating effect of flexible work arrangement on job satisfaction among Malaysian offshore outsourcing support employees

Job Satisfaction, organization performance and employee turnover intention are closely interlinked. High performance culture organizations that promote both job satisfaction and work-life balance often produce good results and have the ability to attract and retain talented employees. Job satisfaction of fixed scheduled employees in the Malaysian offshore outsourcing support is constantly challenged from working long irregular hours to fulfill global "Follow-the-sun" workflow commitment and maintaining effective communication in a temporal dispersed virtual organization. The work time demand is felt more as the temporal dispersion variance between parties in communication widens. This research was initiated with the objective of understanding employees working under such conditions and whether having good management policies such as flexible work arrangement buffer the impact and restore job satisfaction. For this quantitative survey, 306 Information Technology Outsourcing, and Business Process Outsourcing respondents, located in the MSC flagship town of Cyberjaya, were identified. The results reveal that Malaysian offshore outsourcing workers are generally satisfied with their work environment. Whilst global communication remains a temporal dispersion challenge, flexible work arrangement does not alleviate the impact of long irregular work hours; however, it promotes job satisfaction. The findings also confirm the importance of co-workers and supervisory support in mitigating the demands of work. Contrary to the belief that globalization emphasizes cost optimization and reluctance of MNCs in spending and developing resources, most respondents acknowledged that good support from their co-workers and supervisors are vital. The study highlights the critical impact of globalization and temporal dispersion on job satisfaction among fixed working arrangement employees who support Malaysian offshore outsourcing.
The effects of defects on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons

The quantum conductance of graphene nanoribbons that include vacancy and adatom–vacancy defects is studied for both armchair and zigzag edge structures. The conductance is calculated by using the Green’s function formalism combined with a tight-binding method for the description of the system. Our results reveal that, owing to the localized states that appear near the defect sites, the conductance of the defected nanoribbons generally decreases. We show that details of the conductance reduction depend on the structure of the defect, its distance from the ribbon edges, and the ribbon width. While some defect structures cause the conductance of the ribbon to vanish, some other defects have no effect on the conductance at the Fermi energy.
High‐Performance Planar Perovskite Optoelectronic Devices: A Morphological and Interfacial Control by Polar Solvent Treatment

Highly efficient planar perovskite optoelectronic devices are realized by amine-based solvent treatment on compact TiO2 and by optimizing the morphology of the perovskite layers. Amine-based solvent treatment between the TiO2 and the perovskite layers enhances electron injection and extraction and reduces the recombination of photogenerated charges at the interface.
Drivers of brand loyalty on tourists’ choice of destination in Kisumu County, Kenya

iv List of tables. viii List of figures . ix CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 Background . 1 1.1.1 Brand Loyalty . 2 1.1.2 Drivers of Brand loyalty . 4 1.1.3 Buyer Purchase Decision . 5 1.1.4 Kenya Tourist Destinations. 5 1.1. 5 Tourism Destinations in Kisumu County . 6 1.2 Statement of the Problem . 7 1.3 Research Objectives . 9 1.4 Value of the Study . 9 2.
A Fast and Comprehensive Analysis of 32 Synthetic Cannabinoids Using Agilent Triple Quadrupole LC-MS-MS.

Synthetic cannabinoids are a group of psychoactive compounds that mimic the effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the primary psychoactive constituent of marijuana (Cannabis sativa L). The Drug Enforcement Administration has classified many of the most common cannabinoids as Schedule 1 controlled substances. As a result, several novel synthetic cannabinoid series have emerged in the illicit drug market, including PINACA, FUBINACA, PB-22, AKB-48 and multiple derivatives of these compounds. Our laboratory developed and validated an analytical method for the analysis 32 synthetic cannabinoid metabolites in urine samples. Included in this method are metabolites that are constituents of the new generation of synthetic cannabinoids. Following enzymatic hydrolysis, target analytes were recovered by liquid-liquid extraction utilizing 1-chlorobutane:isopropyl alcohol (70:30) as the organic ratio. Chromatographic separation and detection was achieved using an Agilent Technologies 1290 liquid chromatograph coupled to a 6460-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with a Jetstream electrospray source. Linearity for all analytes was established along the range of 0.5-200 ng/mL. Both intraday and interday accuracy and precision data were all within acceptable limits, ±20% error and ±15% relative standard deviation, respectively. Recovery ranged from 48% to 104%. This method has shown to be selective and specific, providing no evidence of interference or carryover concerns. Finally, 11 distinct synthetic cannabinoids were detected in 23 of 25 donor samples analyzed with the method. The data presented here represents a validated liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method to accurately identify and quantitate synthetic cannabinoid metabolites in urine samples, incorporating new generation derivatives.
Long‐term leisure‐time physical activity has a positive effect on bone mass gain in girls

The purpose of this 7‐year prospective longitudinal study was to examine whether the level and consistency of leisure‐time physical activity (LTPA) during adolescence affected the bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) attained at early adulthood. The study subjects were 202 Finnish girls who were 10 to 13 years of age at baseline. Bone area (BA), BMC, and BMD of the total body (TB), total femur (TF), and lumbar spine (L2–L4) were assessed by dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry (DXA). Scores of LTPA were obtained by questionnaire. Girls were divided into four groups: consistently low physical activity (GLL), consistently high (GHH), and changed from low to high (GLH) and from high to low (GHL) during 7 years of follow‐up. At baseline, no differences were found in BA, BMC, and BMD among the groups in any of the bone sites. Compared with the GLL group, the GHH group had higher BMC (11.7% in the TF, p < .05) and BMD at the TB (4.5%) and the TF (12.2%, all p < .05) at age 18. Those in the GLH group also had higher a BMC at each site (8.5% to 9.4%, p < .05) and a higher BMD in the TB (5.4%) and the TF (8.9%) than that of GLL (all p < 0.05) at the age 18. Our results suggest that long‐term leisure‐time physical activity has a positive effect on bone mass gain of multiple bone sites in girls during the transition from prepuberty to early adulthood. In addition, girls whose physical activity increases during adolescence also benefit from bone mass gain. © 2010 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
CEST signal at 2 ppm (CEST@2ppm) from Z‐spectral fitting correlates with creatine distribution in brain tumor

In general, multiple components such as water direct saturation, magnetization transfer (MT), chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) and aliphatic nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) contribute to the Z‐spectrum. The conventional CEST quantification method based on asymmetrical analysis may lead to quantification errors due to the semi‐solid MT asymmetry and the aliphatic NOE located on a single side of the Z‐spectrum. Fitting individual contributors to the Z‐spectrum may improve the quantification of each component. In this study, we aim to characterize the multiple exchangeable components from an intracranial tumor model using a simplified Z‐spectral fitting method. In this method, the Z‐spectrum acquired at low saturation RF amplitude (50 Hz) was modeled as the summation of five Lorentzian functions that correspond to NOE, MT effect, bulk water, amide proton transfer (APT) effect and a CEST peak located at +2 ppm, called CEST@2ppm. With the pixel‐wise fitting, the regional variations of these five components in the brain tumor and the normal brain tissue were quantified and summarized. Increased APT effect, decreased NOE and reduced CEST@2ppm were observed in the brain tumor compared with the normal brain tissue. Additionally, CEST@2ppm decreased with tumor progression. CEST@2ppm was found to correlate with the creatine concentration quantified with proton MRS. Based on the correlation curve, the creatine contribution to CEST@2ppm was quantified. The CEST@2ppm signal could be a novel imaging surrogate for in vivo creatine, the important bioenergetics marker. Given its noninvasive nature, this CEST MRI method may have broad applications in cancer bioenergetics. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Weekend hospitalization and additional risk of death: An analysis of inpatient data

Objective To assess whether weekend admissions to hospital and/or already being an inpatient on weekend days were associated with any additional mortality risk. Design Retrospective observational survivorship study. We analysed all admissions to the English National Health Service (NHS) during the financial year 2009/10, following up all patients for 30 days after admission and accounting for risk of death associated with diagnosis, co-morbidities, admission history, age, sex, ethnicity, deprivation, seasonality, day of admission and hospital trust, including day of death as a time dependent covariate. The principal analysis was based on time to in-hospital death. Participants National Health Service Hospitals in England. Main Outcome Measures 30 day mortality (in or out of hospital). Results There were 14,217,640 admissions included in the principal analysis, with 187,337 in-hospital deaths reported within 30 days of admission. Admission on weekend days was associated with a considerable increase in risk of subsequent death compared with admission on weekdays, hazard ratio for Sunday versus Wednesday 1.16 (95% CI 1.14 to 1.18; P < .0001), and for Saturday versus Wednesday 1.11 (95% CI 1.09 to 1.13; P < .0001). Hospital stays on weekend days were associated with a lower risk of death than midweek days, hazard ratio for being in hospital on Sunday versus Wednesday 0.92 (95% CI 0.91 to 0.94; P < .0001), and for Saturday versus Wednesday 0.95 (95% CI 0.93 to 0.96; P < .0001). Similar findings were observed on a smaller US data set. Conclusions Admission at the weekend is associated with increased risk of subsequent death within 30 days of admission. The likelihood of death actually occurring is less on a weekend day than on a mid-week day.
Scalable 0.35V to 1.2V SRAM bitcell design from 65nm CMOS to 28nm FDSOI

We present a design and characterization method for a scalable ultra-wide voltage range (UWVR) SRAM bitcell array, targeting a minimum voltage prediction, high yield and Si-CAD correlation within 5%. The experimental validation is first performed in bulk CMOS 65nm, then confirmed in 28nm FDSOI. Over 10× energy gain is achieved from 1.2V down to 0.35V range while measuring high speed at nominal voltage.
Constructible falsity and inexact predicates

In 1949 Nelson [5] proposed a constructive logic in which falsity is conceived in a fashion analogous to that for intuitionistic truth. The predicate calculus N (for strong negation) was characterized by the usual axioms and rules for positive intuitionistic connectives (see Kleene [4, p. 82, la–7 and 9–12]), with the additional axiom schemata for strong negation: A ⊃ (¬A ⊃ B), Nelson's paper showed that N may be interpreted with concepts for constructive truth (P-realizability) and falsity (N-realizability). The paper also gave mappings between the intuitionistic and strong negation systems of arithmetic. These mappings are easily adapted to pure predicate calculus. One shows that intuitionistic predicate calculus I is a subsystem of N by reading the intuitionistic negation of A as A ⊃ B & ¬B in N. It is possible to map N into a subsystem of I using the definition of A′ in [5, p. 19] changing only the definition of (¬A)′ for atomic A to A ⊃ B & ¬B.
Perceived Service Quality and Customer Loyalty: Evidence from Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka

Service quality plays an important role in any organization in order to achieve competitive advantage. For banks, service quality is considered as central to their business since it affects the customer’s inclination to deal or not to deal with the bank anymore. In this regard, there was a need to investigate the link between the constructs of perceived service quality and customer loyalty. For this purpose, commercial banks in Sri Lanka were identified using univariate and bivariate analysis. As per data analyzed, it was revealed that there was a positive strong correlation existing between perceived service quality and customer loyalty at commercial banks in Sri Lanka. Moreover, all dimensions of perceived service quality had the positive relationships with customer loyalty. However, the dimensions of reliability and assurance showed a higher correlation than other dimensions. Thus, the findings emphasized the banks to highly engage in increasing service quality and customer loyalty. The future researchers may look into the constructs in different areas and with different measurement of instruments.
Strategies of Anti‐Cytokine Monoclonal Antibody Development: Immunoassay of IL‐10 and IL‐5 in Clinical Samples

The identification of cytokines, a class of intermediate molecular weight, intercellular regulatory proteins, and an understanding of their function has been facilitated tremendously by the use of recombinant DNA technology. Following closely upon these developments has come the ability to detect and quantify cytokines in clinical and biological samples, in large part made possible by the use of specific and sensitive immunoassays using anti-cytokine antibodies. Cytokine detection with antibody-based techniques is particularly useful because so many of these factors have overlapping, parallel, or counter-regulatory bioactivities and it is extremely difficult to distinguish and measure them in complex mixtures on the basis of biological activity alone, Therefore, both neutralizing antibodies in bioassay systems and cytokine immunoassays of complex samples are required (Mosmann & Fong 1989). In the first part of this review, we outline the general strategy we have followed for preparing a large panel of anti-mouse and human cytokine monoclonal antibodies (mAb) and setting up cytokine immunoassays. While there is a general consensus that many of the frequently produced cytokines such as IL-1, TNF, IFN-y, IL-6, and IL-8 may be general inflammatory mediators, see for example (Dunn 1991), definitive links between the detection of specific cytokine patterns and the pathogenesis of particular diseases are in the early stages of being understood. The eventual elucidation of such cause-and-
Stochastic Spanning Stelios Arvanitis

This study develops and implements methods for analyzing whether introducing new securities or relaxing investment constraints improves the investment opportunity set for risk averse investors. We develop a statistical test procedure for ‘stochastic spanning’ for two nested polyhedral portfolio sets based on subsampling and Linear Programming. The test is statistically consistent and asymptotically exact for a class of weakly dependent processes. Using this test, we accept market portfolio efficiency but reject two-fund separation in standard data sets of historical stock market returns. The divergence between the test results for the two hypotheses illustrates the role for higher-order moment risk in portfolio choice and challenges representative-investor models of capital market equilibrium.
Mutants of FtsZ Targeting the Protofilament Interface: Effects on Cell Division and GTPase Activity

ABSTRACT The bacterial cell division protein FtsZ assembles into straight protofilaments, one subunit thick, in which subunits appear to be connected by identical bonds or interfaces. These bonds involve the top surface of one subunit making extensive contact with the bottom surface of the subunit above it. We have investigated this interface by site-directed mutagenesis. We found nine bottom and eight top mutants that were unable to function for cell division. We had expected that some of the mutants might poison cell division substoichiometrically, but this was not found for any mutant. Eight of the bottom mutants exhibited dominant negative effects (reduced colony size) and four completely blocked colony formation, but this required expression of the mutant protein at four to five times the wild-type FtsZ level. Remarkably, the top mutants were even weaker, most showing no effect at the highest expression level. This suggests a directional assembly or treadmilling, where subunit addition is primarily to the bottom end of the protofilament. Selected pairs of top and bottom mutants showed no GTPase activity up to 10 to 20 μM, in contrast to the high GTPase activity of wild-type FtsZ above 1 μM. Overall, these results suggest that in order for a subunit to bind a protofilament at the 1 μM Kd for elongation, it must have functional interfaces at both the top and bottom. This is inconsistent with the present model of the protofilament, as a simple stack of subunits one on top of the other, and may require a new structural model.