Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Repurchase Loyalty for Customer Social Co-Creation E-Marketplaces

Purpose – Social co-creation refers to the process of using social media as a vehicle to carry out customer co-creation engagements. By allowing many customers to contribute to a specific co-creation initiative, social media makes co-creation platforms more efficient. The purpose of this paper is to examine: first, whether usability and information quality, visual appeal and image, interactivity, and web innovativeness, as perceived web site quality dimensions, were related to value equity; second, whether value equity was related to commitment and repurchase loyalty to social co-creation; and third, the moderating effects of aesthetic appreciation and fashion opinion leadership. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual foundation was based on the Quality-Value-Satisfaction model. Data were collected from US online apparel shoppers (n=691) using a consumer panel via an online survey. Structural equation modeling was employed to test the proposed model and research hypotheses. Findings – Usability and .
Modeling and genetic solution of a class of flexible job shop scheduling problems

We consider an extended class of flexible job shop scheduling problems. First, we translate the problem into a mathematical programming formula, i.e., a mixed-integer programming problem. This makes it possible to apply standard packages of mixed integer programming solvers and, while lots of computational time is required in general, to obtain the optimal schedule. Then, in order to seek the schedules close to the optimal for larger-scale problems, we newly design a solution method by adopting genetic algorithms based on the formula. Through some computational experiments, the effectiveness and the possibility of the proposed approach are examined.
The heat of shortening and the dynamic constants of muscle

The hope was recently expressed (Hill 1937, p. 116) that with the development of a more accurate and rapid technique for muscle heat measurement, a much more consistent picture might emerge of the energy relations of muscles shortening (or lengthening) and doing positive (or negative) work. This hope has been realized, and some astonishingly simple and accurate relations have been found, relations, moreover, which (among other things) determine the effect of load on speed of shortening, allow the form of the isometric contraction to be predicted, and are the basis of the so-called “ visco-elasticity” of skeletal muscle. This paper is divided into three parts. In Part I further developments of the technique are described: everything has depended on the technique, so no apology is needed for a rather full description of it and of the precautions necessary. In Part II the results themselves are described and discussed. In Part I I I the “ visco-elastic” properties of active muscle are shown to be a con­ sequence of the properties described in Part II.
Flexible modem interface — Enabling DoD wideband SATCOM enterprise

Today, rapid business and technology innovations are producing an array of advanced commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) systems that can deliver massive amounts of SATCOM capacity at a fraction of current cost and offer communications diversity that is critical for achieving resilience in a military contested environment. Recognizing the alignment of commercial capabilities with the Department of Defense (DoD) requirements for high capacity, global coverage, lower cost, and resilience, the department is proactively engaging the industry to formulate strategies leading towards a DoD Wideband SATCOM Enterprise that efficiently acquires and effectively manages advanced commercial capabilities in its architecture. To fully leverage the expanded space resources, the DoD must also address the integration of commercial waveforms into the DoD tactical terminals. The terminal flexibility for operating across multiple operator networks, in multiple frequency bands, and support different waveforms/modems is not only a pre-requisite for accessing advanced services but also key in providing resilience against threats. The purpose of this paper is to provide an architectural overview of the flexible terminal and Flexible Modem Interface (FMI) concepts. The FMI enables managed terminal flexibility and should be considered as an important step in converging DoD tactical terminal segment capabilities for various types of satellite networks and managed services.
Executive Compensation in Foundation-Controlled Firms

In general, a large shareholder can discipline the manager by monitoring and/or incentivizing through compensation contracts. In foundation-controlled (FC) ﬁrms, the controlling shareholder, i.e., the foundation, does not personally consume cash ﬂow rights, and hence has weaker incentives to monitor the manager, ceteris paribus. I ﬁnd evidence of the substitution of compensation for monitoring based on a sample of 193 Swedish family ﬁrms listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the period of 2001-2009. A family can control a ﬁrm either with or without the establishment of a foundation. In the latter case, the family would donate their shareholdings to the foundation and thus give up their personal consumption of the resulting cash ﬂow rights. Compared to non-foundation family ﬁrms, foundation family ﬁrms reward their CEOs more. While base salary and bonus are equally competitive, foundation family ﬁrms strengthen the performance pay schemes by increasing the proportion of variable compensation and pay sensitivity to performance. The results are robust to various eﬀects including managerial ownership, family CEO and supplementary monitoring by other large shareholders.
Consumer Trade-Offs and the Evaluation of Services

The evaluation of services by consumers in terms of service attributes that should have an impact on judgments as well as the nature of the judgments themselves are investigated. A conjoint analysis is used to examine subjects’ utilities for service alternatives that differ in terms of price, level of quality, friendliness of the service personnel, and the degree of customization of the service. The impact on subjects’ utilities was studied in relation to several factors, including the type of service industry being evaluated (i.e., experience or credence services); the criticality of the service situation (i.e., high or low importance that the service be executed well); and the type of evaluative judgment asked of the respondent (i.e., ratings of subjects’ anticipated satisfaction, value, or likelihood of purchase). The results indicate that all service attributes are important to consumers and that their importance varies with the mediating factors. For example, consumers are price sensitive for less critical purchase situations, whereas quality is more important for credence services. The findings allow for a parsimonious theoretical explanation based on risk and the clarification of some constructs in the area of consumer evaluations.
Real Options Valuation of the License of a Copper Mine

The objective of this paper is to value as a Real Option the License of a copper mine in the exploration stage. We conceive the License of a copper mine, as the value of a call option that gives us the right to invest in the next stage. The underlying asset is the Net Present Value (NPV) of the cash flows of the mine adjusted by the probability of success. The strike price is the investment required for acquiring the phase. For the simulation of the project and the calculation of the volatility of the Real Option using the Copeland and Antikarov methodology, the copper price, fundamental market risk of the project, is modeled using a mean reversion with jumps model. Other alternatives of volatility estimation are discussed. The valuation of the Real Option is made using a binomial lattice which allows introducing in the process the subjective probabilities of success from exploration to production.
Traffic meteorological visibility estimation based on homogenous area extraction

A novel technique for estimating traffic visibility based on homogenous area extraction is presented in this paper. Focusing on the problem of detecting daytime fog and estimating visibility, this proposed algorithm adopts a measure defined by the International Commission on Illumination CIE as the distance beyond which a black object of an appropriate dimension is perceived with a contrast of less than 5%. The key step for the algorithm is homogenous area extraction including sky and road selection from the top to the bottom of traffic image. Traffic meteorological visibility will be known as long as the inflection point's location of this area is found. Camera parameter calibration should be done by vanishing points calculation based on painted lines detection. At last, calibration results, inflection point and traffic meteorological visibility for three different traffic scenes will be given. Comparison with real data obtained manually verifies the effectiveness of the algorithm.
The Attribute Importance of Audit Firm and Audit Fee

Audit fee rewards the effort of auditor team and auditor team has various attributes. In order to study the overall effect of attribute importance on audit fee,it is necessary to regard an audit firm with various attributes as a system.The Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants(CICPA) has issued yearly top 100 Chinese audit firm since 2006.Using the data,this paper examines the relationship between the attribute importance of audit firm and audit fee.We find that audit firm with a better education structure,a better experience structure and a bigger size can charge higher audit fee,but other attributes have no detectable effect on audit fee.
Severe Listeria monocytogenes Infection Induces Development of Monocytes with Distinct Phenotypic and Functional Features

Monocytes perform diverse roles during infection with the facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. They are essential as bactericidal cells in host defense but can also become Trojan horses transporting bacteria into the brain. To explain these contrasting roles, we characterized bone marrow (BM) monocytes in steady state and generated during lethal and sublethal L. monocytogenes infection. Ly-6ChighCD11b+ BM monocytes expressed high amounts of M-CSFR/CD115 in steady state and 72 h following sublethal infection. However, infection with increasing numbers of bacteria resulted in progressive loss of CD115 and strongly decreased CD115-encoding c-fms mRNA expression. Conversely, analysis of regulatory molecules showed de novo expression of the nonsignaling IL-1RII, CD121b, under the same conditions. Ly-6ChighCD11b+ monocytes in circulation also acquired a CD115neg/lowCD121bhigh phenotype during lethal infection. These BM monocytes showed upregulation of suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 and 3 and IL-1R–"associated kinase-M to a greater extent and/or earlier compared with cells from sublethal infection and showed decreased LPS-induced IL-6 production despite similar levels of surface TLR4 expression. BM monocytes from uninfected or sublethally infected mice bound and internalized very few L. monocytogenes in vitro. However, both functions were significantly increased in monocytes developing during lethal infection. Nonetheless, these cells did not produce reactive oxygen intermediates, suggesting an inability to kill L. monocytogenes. Together, these data show that systemic infections with lethal and sublethal amounts of bacteria differentially shape developing BM monocytes. This results in distinct phenotypic and functional properties consistent with being Trojan horses rather than bactericidal effector cells.
Education, Empowerment and Communication (EEC) as Drivers of Managing Change

Although corporate jargons like employee education, empowerment and communication are frequently used by the top management, it rarely translates into an inherent part of change management. Using organizational-level data from single site case study, an attempt has been made to impress upon the fact that these popular jargons when applied in true sense can become potent tools in managing people side of change successfully. On the basis of collection of responses from 516 respondents through a well-structured questionnaire, both executives and non-executives, a model for successfully managing change has been proposed and validated through structured equation modelling to indicate that people’s skill and competencies developed consistently through education to meet the emerging technological changes and challenges; their alignment, involvement and empowerment in respective areas of work and persistent communication significantly affect the outcome of change initiatives.
Infinitely many lattice surfaces with special pseudo-Anosov maps

We give explicit pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms with vanishing Sah-Arnoux-Fathi invariant. Any translation surface whose Veech group is commensurable to any of a large class of triangle groups is shown to have an affine pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of this type. We also apply a reduction to finite triangle groups and thereby show the existence of non-parabolic elements in the periodic field of certain translation surfaces.
Early Cell Cycle BoxMediated BoxMediated BoxMediated Transcription of CLN 3 and SWI 4 Contributes to the Proper Timing of the G 1toS 1toS 1toS toS toS Transition in Budding Yeast

The Cln3-Cdc28 kinase is required to activate the Swi4-Swi6 transcription complex which induces CLN1 and CLN2 transcription in late G1 and drives the transition to S. Cln3 and Swi4 are both rate limiting for G1 progression, and they are coordinately transcribed to peak at the M/G1 boundary. Early cell cycle box (ECB) elements, which confer M/G1-specific transcription, have been found in both promoters, and elimination of all ECB elements from the CLN3 promoter causes both a loss of periodicity and Cln3-deficient phenotypes, which include an extended G1 interval and increased cell volume. Mutants lacking the ECB elements in both the CLN3 and SWI4 promoters have low and deregulated levels of CLN transcripts, and the G1-to-S transition for these mutants is delayed and highly variable. These observations support the view that the coordinated rise of Cln3 and Swi4 levels mediated by ECB-dependent transcription controls the timing of the G1-to-S phase transition.
A 10-bit 400 MS/s asynchronous SAR ADC using dual-DAC architecture for speed enhancement

This paper presents a high-speed and power-efficient successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). A dual-DAC architecture is proposed to enhance the conversion rate by decreasing the worst-case logic delay and thus the time needed for each conversion cycle. A 1-bit redundancy is introduced to absorb the decision errors caused by the mismatch between the two DACs and to relax the DAC settling requirement. In addition, an addition-only digital error correction technique is utilized to convert the non-binary codes into binary ones. A 10-bit SAR ADC is designed in a 28-nm FDSOI CMOS technology. The ADC achieves a signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 59.69 dB at the Nyquist input frequency, while consuming 1.53 mW from a 1.0 V power supply at 400 MS/s. The resulting figure-of-merit (FOM) is 4.86 fJ/conv. -step.
Dialysis dose scaled to body surface area and size-adjusted, sex-specific patient mortality.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES When hemodialysis dose is scaled to body water (V), women typically receive a greater dose than men, but their survival is not better given a similar dose. This study sought to determine whether rescaling dose to body surface area (SA) might reveal different associations among dose, sex, and mortality. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Single-pool Kt/V (spKt/V), equilibrated Kt/V, and standard Kt/V (stdKt/V) were computed using urea kinetic modeling on a prevalent cohort of 7229 patients undergoing thrice-weekly hemodialysis. Data were obtained from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 2008 ESRD Clinical Performance Measures Project. SA-normalized stdKt/V (SAN-stdKt/V) was calculated as stdKt/V × ratio of anthropometric volume to SA/17.5. Patients were grouped into sex-specific dose quintiles (reference: quintile 1 for men). Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for 1-year mortality were calculated using Cox regression. RESULTS spKt/V was higher in women (1.7 ± 0.3) than in men (1.5 ± 0.2; P<0.001), but SAN-stdKt/V was lower (women: 2.3 ± 0.2; men: 2.5 ± 0.3; P<0.001). For both sexes, mortality decreased as spKt/V increased, until spKt/V was 1.6-1.7 (quintile 4 for men: HR, 0.62; quintile 3 for women: HR, 0.64); no benefit was observed with higher spKt/V. HR for mortality decreased further at higher SAN-stdKt/V in both sexes (quintile 5 for men: HR, 0.69; quintile 5 for women: HR, 0.60). CONCLUSIONS SA-based dialysis dose results in dose-mortality relationships substantially different from those with volume-based dosing. SAN-stdKt/V analyses suggest women may be relatively underdosed when treated by V-based dosing. SAN-stdKt/V as a measure for dialysis dose may warrant further study.
Design-intensive born globals: a multiple case study of marketing management

This paper explores the marketing activities of "born global" companies that have been established either by one or two designers, or by a designer and a business graduate. "Born globals" are companies that have internationalised their business soon after their establishment. The focus in this paper is on the impact that the mental model of the founders – in terms of marketing competences operationalised in terms of educational background – has on the firmś commercial success in the early stages of internationalisation. Our analysis shows that the marketing competences of the designers we studied were geared toward establishing the founders' own brand as designers or successfully launching their product offering into the market. Participating in international trade fairs, personal contacts with the distribution channel representatives and control of point of sale activities were the main marketing methods. Conventional advertising was used very little, mainly because of the high costs associated with operating in the global arena. After early development and early growth the design-intensive born globals began to suffer with a lack of sufficient marketing competencies. The marketing competences required for managing growth to maturity and managing profitability were crucial, if there was to be any 'second stage' for the design-intensive firm. In the companies we studied, a partnership between design entrepreneur and a marketing professional was a source of sustained competitive advantage in some firms. We propose that our findings are generalisable. We believe that also other design-intensive born globals meet the challenge of higher requirements for marketing competences in the 'second stage' of growth than in the initial stage. Hence, they may find valuable our result of why and how a "co-preneurial" partnership between the designer and a marketing professional can be a solution.
Diving‐Type Injury of the Cervical Spine: Contribution of Computed Tomography to Management

We have utilized computed tomography (CT) in addition to conventional radiography for evaluation and as a guide to management of serious diving injuries to the cervical spine. This technique has proven to be invaluable in the initial assessment and further clinical management of this type of injury. A classification of these injuries and associated fractures is presented based on CT appearance. Representative cases are presented comparing standard radiography and CT.
Venture Capital Budgeting

Venture capital firms typically invest in portfolios of only a few highly correlated enterprises. From a diversification perspective this seems suboptimal. We analyze venture capital budgeting focusing on the venture capitalist's decision to invest in correlated enterprises. We provide equilibrium conditions that emphasize the importance of information and the venture capitalist's role in resolving adverse selection on the entrepreneurial side. The importance of information increases the minimum carried interest offered to the venture capitalist. In particular, the carried interests received by venture capitalists are, by and large, determined by the size and level of correlation in their portfolios.
The impact of cultural diversity on the effectiveness of construction project teams

Before the global financial crisis hit the region in 2008, the buoyant construction activities in the United Arab Emirates, especially in Dubai, were successful in attracting many multinational companies and professionals from across the globe. One of the main drawbacks of this business environment is the increasingly high competition between such companies to recruit and retain the needed human resources. This paper investigates the cultural diversity phenomenon in construction project teams in Dubai and its effect on their effectiveness. The main objective of the paper is to examine the impact of cultural diversity of the project teams on their performance. The paper reports the results of an empirical study into the relationship between the extent of cultural diversity and project team performance. The findings of the empirical study suggest that there is no significant relationship between the degree of project teams cultural diversity and their overall performance measures. However, the results showe.
Identification of a Streptococcus agalactiae Serotype III Subtype 4 Clone in Association with Adult Invasive Disease in Hong Kong

ABSTRACT Characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae serotype III isolates revealed a subtype 4 clone that has an indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern and possesses a C-α protein, IS1381, and a novel sequence type (ST), ST 283, by multilocus sequence tagging. This clone was significantly associated with diseases caused by invasive strains from nonpregnant adults (P ≤ 0.01, chi-square test) and was not present in the genital tracts of pregnant mothers.