Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Humidity Sensor of p-n InN/Si Nanostructure With GHz Resonant Microwave Property

As the growth temperature, annealing temperature, and annealing time of InN sensing film of InN/InNO/In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/In/SiO<sub>2</sub>/Si humidity sensor were, respectively, adjusted at 400°C, 400°C, and 15 min, the sensing surface possesses obvious particles of nanometer scale. The particle size of InN sensing film was estimated about 65 nm which realized the quantum effect of InN sensing film for the humidity sensing performance in chemistry. The designed p-n InN/InNO/In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/In/SiO<sub>2</sub>/Si structures of humidity sensor in this paper contained three different buffer layers (indium layer, InNO layer, and In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> layer) which also revealed the negative differential resistance effect with peak current density of 2.8 kA/cm<sup>2</sup> and peak-to-valley current ratio of 1.93 for quantum resonant microwave performance in physics. The periods of water molecular adsorption and desorption are ~600 and 580 s, respectively. The sensing resolution of adsorption and desorption is defined by resistance variation per second. The response sensitivity (SR) of adsorption and desorption are ~0.25 mQ/s (0.1%RH/s) and 0.41 mQ/s (0.1%RH/s), respectively. The InN/InNO/In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/In/SiO<sub>2</sub>/Si humidity sensor revealed the sensing sensitivity of 6 × 10<sup>-3</sup> ohm/% RH. The InN/InNO/In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/In/SiO<sub>2</sub>/Si humidity sensor also revealed the resistive cutoff frequency ( fr) and the selfresonant frequency (fSR) of microwave device reached as 1.6 MHz and 70 GHz, respectively. Microwave transmission property of p-n InN/InNO/In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/In/SiO<sub>2</sub>/Si humidity sensor reached as gigahertz frequency range can transfer the humidity signal from patient to monitoring station via high frequency wireless communication from one device. InN/InNO/In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/In/SiO<sub>2</sub>/Si humidity sensor can be, therefore, applied in wireless microwave transmission of human body sensing signal.
Till Mortgage Do Us Part: Mortgage Switching Costs and Household’s Bank Switching

We investigate the role of mortgage switching costs in shaping the households’ decision to change their main bank. To this end, we use a unique panel dataset that enables us to infer household’s bank switching, in conjunction with a legal reform that exogenously slashed down the mortgage switching costs. The empirical evidence, which survives to a variety of robustness checks, supports the hypothesis that the explicit switching costs in the retail banking market are a weighty factor in shaping households’ bank switching, despite any potential “informational lock-in”. Dissecting the results, we show that the effects of the reform were not uniform across households. The more educated households, those with a longer or broader relationship with their previous bank and those residing in ex-ante less competitive banking markets were at the forefront of the wave of bank switching.
Getting Better: Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia

This report is about how to improve health system outcomes in countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. Long-term historical trends indicate substantial room for improvement, especially when ECA's health outcomes are compared to those of the Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (EU-15). Instead of catching up with their Western neighbors, many countries in ECA have been falling behind. This report, which explores the development challenge facing health sectors in ECA, identifies three key agendas for achieving more rapid convergence with the world's best-performing health systems: (i) the first is the health agenda, in which the main imperative is to strengthen public health and primary care interventions to help achieve the 'cardiovascular revolution' that has taken place in the west in recent decades; (ii) the second is the financing agenda, in which growing demand for medical care must be satisfied without imposing an undue burden on households, by achieving better financial protection, or on government budgets, by ensuring a more efficient use of resources; and (iii) the third agenda relates to broader institutional arrangements. Here, a few key reform ingredients are identified, each of which is common to most advanced health systems but lacking in many ECA countries.
INFLUENCE OF TIMBER TRADING ON POVERTY REDUCTION IN MUFINDI DISTRICT, IRINGA REGION, TANZANIA

Sustainable use of forest resource products such as timber has been reported to produce different benefits, which enhance households’ income and reduce poverty. This study assessed the influence of timber trading on poverty reduction to the selected communities in Mufindi District, Tanzania and its contribution to district revenue. As well the study focused on the challenges and opportunities to timber trading in the study area. Structured questionnaires and checklist were the data collection tools used. A sample of 100 households engaged in timber trading was randomly selected from four villages for a questionnaire survey. Observation and focus group discussion (FGD) were other methods employed. Descriptive statistics and comparative analysis were used to analyze data and compare relationships between and among variables. Quantitative data were analysed using computer program Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Qualitative data analysis was subjected to content analysis. Results show that timber trading contributed to 61% of the households’ income. 73 percent of households’ physical assets were acquired using income accrued from timber trading. Besides, timber trading contributed up to 35% of the district own sources of revenues. However, access to credit facilities by timber traders was very weak. Increase in the price of fuel, price of buying tree plots and poor infrastructure led to an increase in the costs of timber production. The situation decreases both household income and district revenues in terms of log cess (levy). Moreover, revenue collection from private owned wood lots remained a challenge to district council authority. It is recommended that package of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) business support programs, extension services and cost-effective technological support is provided to timber traders in the district to accelerate the meeting of the national strategy for growth and reduction of poverty (NSGRP) and realisation of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). ii
Perceived Threat of Alzheimer Disease (AD): The Role of Personal Experience With AD

The fear of developing Alzheimer disease (AD) is highly salient, particularly for biologic family members. The current study evaluated social/cognitive explanations for perceived AD threat beyond genetic relatedness, including personal experience with AD, belief in negative aging stereotypes, and performance on delayed memory tasks. Participants were 97 healthy older adults aged 50 to 85, self-referred for a free community memory screen. Results showed that, as expected, personal AD experience was related to perceived AD threat. Furthermore, consistent with expectations, AD experience moderated the relationship between perceived AD threat and other explanatory variables, including age, belief in negative aging stereotypes, and cognitive performance. In those with AD experience, whether genetic or not, younger age was associated with more perceived AD threat, but an inverse relationship was seen in those without AD experience. Those with genetic AD experience seem particularly vulnerable to the effects of negative age stereotype beliefs on perceived AD threat, and show an inverse relationship between their actual cognitive performance and their perception of personal AD threat. Results highlight the importance of considering personal experience with AD when assessing a person's self-reported concerns about AD or his/her own memory changes.
The Effect of Regional Financial Integration on Intra-Regional Trade in the East African Community

This paper aimed at establishing effects of regional financial integration on intraregional trade in East African Community (EAC). The importance of financial integration on trade prompted the study. Quantitative and qualitative data between year 2000 and 2009 from the East African community was used. This paper employed the general method of moments in its analysis. Results showed that regional financial integration significantly affect intraregional trade in the EAC. The study recommends that EAC coordinating committee promote effective bank supervision to achieve uniform bank spread, initiate ways of issuance of common bond and develop secondary markets for all financial assets in the region.
540 fs light pulses at 1.5 /spl mu/m with variable repetition rate using a tuneable twin guide laser and soliton compression in a dispersion decreasing fiber

A novel and simple method to generate ultra short light pulses with variable repetition rate is demonstrated. A wavelength modulated tuneable twin guide laser, emitting blue-chirped light, together with pulse compression in a standard single mode fiber is used to generate light pulses of 3 ps width. Amplification and further compression in a dispersion decreasing fiber leads to Fourier transform limited pulses of 1.87 ps width or to 540 fs pulses with a small pedestal. <<ETX>>
Benchmarking for information systems management using issues framework studies: Content and methodology

As a means of benchmarking their position and assisting with anticipating an uncertain future, the identification of critical information systems (IS) management issues frameworks is becoming an increasingly important research task for both academics and industrialists. This paper provides a description and summary of previous work on identifying IS issues frameworks by reviewing 20 research investigations in terms of what they studied and how they were conducted. It also suggests some possible directions and methodologies for future research. The summary and suggestions for further work are applicable for issues framework research in the IS management field as well as in other business and management areas.
Extension of an orographic‐drag parametrization scheme to incorporate orographic anisotropy and flow blocking

The Kim–Arakawa orographic gravity‐wave drag parametrization scheme, which is a component of the US Navy's NOGAPS ALPHA (Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System, Advanced‐Level Physics and High Altitude), is extended to include the effects of orographic anisotropy and low‐level flow blocking. The algorithms to calculate the orographic statistics needed for the parametrization are also revised. The extended scheme is evaluated against mountain waves explicitly simulated with COAMPS®† (Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System) of NRL (Naval Research Laboratory).
Differences in Sustainable Management Between Four- and Five-Star Hotels Regarding the Perceptions of Three-Pillar Sustainability

Although there are a wealth of publications about sustainability in tourism destination management literature, the concept has only recently started coming under examination within the area of hospitality management. This article’s main focus is on capturing the perceptions and practices of hotel management in respect to the concept of three-dimensional sustainability. A literature-based self-administered questionnaire was used and 423 hotels participated in the study. Logistic regression was employed in order to examine four research hypotheses and extract useful findings. The findings suggest that hotel star ratings play a significant role in the perceived importance of financial measures of economic viability, as well as in the application of socially responsible practices by hotel management; the same conclusion does not apply to environmental practices. Furthermore, it was found that hotel location does not play a significant role in shaping perceptions of sustainability dimensions.
Embeddedness as a facilitator of sustainable entrepreneurship

This conceptual paper makes the case for a strong embeddedness at all stages of sustainable entrepreneurship – opportunity identification and/or creation, evaluation, and exploitation. This strong embeddedness is argued to drive entrepreneurs towards sustainability through the set-up of long-term social contracts with multiple stakeholders. Building upon extant literature on sustainable, social, and environmental entrepreneurship and the framework of stakeholder theory, as well as the embeddedness argument, a model is developed and propositions are suggested. Theoretical and practical implications are derived from these propositions.
Association of Herpes Simplex Virus pUL31 with Capsid Vertices and Components of the Capsid Vertex-Specific Complex

ABSTRACT pUL34 and pUL31 of herpes simplex virus (HSV) comprise the nuclear egress complex (NEC) and are required for budding at the inner nuclear membrane. pUL31 also associates with capsids, suggesting it bridges the capsid and pUL34 in the nuclear membrane to initiate budding. Previous studies showed that capsid association of pUL31 was precluded in the absence of the C terminus of pUL25, which along with pUL17 comprises the capsid vertex-specific complex, or CVSC. The present studies show that the final 20 amino acids of pUL25 are required for pUL31 capsid association. Unexpectedly, in the complete absence of pUL25, or when pUL25 capsid binding was precluded by deletion of its first 50 amino acids, pUL31 still associated with capsids. Under these conditions, pUL31 was shown to coimmunoprecipitate weakly with pUL17. Based on these data, we hypothesize that the final 20 amino acids of pUL25 are required for pUL31 to associate with capsids. In the absence of pUL25 from the capsid, regions of capsid-associated pUL17 are bound by pUL31. Immunogold electron microscopy revealed that pUL31 could associate with multiple sites on a single capsid in the nucleus of infected cells. Electron tomography revealed that immunogold particles specific to pUL31 protein bind to densities at the vertices of the capsid, a location consistent with that of the CVSC. These data suggest that pUL31 loads onto CVSCs in the nucleus to eventually bind pUL34 located within the nuclear membrane to initiate capsid budding. IMPORTANCE This study is important because it localizes pUL31, a component previously known to be required for HSV capsids to bud through the inner nuclear membrane, to the vertex-specific complex of HSV capsids, which comprises the unique long region 25 (UL25) and UL17 gene products. It also shows this interaction is dependent on the C terminus of UL25. This information is vital for understanding how capsids bud through the inner nuclear membrane.
Load-Balanced Clustering Algorithm With Distributed Self-Organization for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are composed of a large number of inexpensive power-constrained wireless sensor nodes, which detect and monitor physical parameters around them through self-organization. Utilizing clustering algorithms to form a hierarchical network topology is a common method of implementing network management and data aggregation in WSNs. Assuming that the residual energy of nodes follows the random distribution, we propose a load-balanced clustering algorithm for WSNs on the basis of their distance and density distribution, making it essentially different from the previous clustering algorithms. Simulated tests indicate that the new algorithm can build more balanceable clustering structure and enhance the network life cycle.
ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols

This document defines the ChaCha20 stream cipher as well as the use of the Poly1305 authenticator, both as stand-alone algorithms and as a "combined mode", or Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) algorithm. This document does not introduce any new crypto, but is meant to serve as a stable reference and an implementation guide. It is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG).
MRI Based Bayesian Personalization of a Tumor Growth Model

The mathematical modeling of brain tumor growth has been the topic of numerous research studies. Most of this work focuses on the reaction-diffusion model, which suggests that the diffusion coefficient and the proliferation rate can be related to clinically relevant information. However, estimating the parameters of the reaction-diffusion model is difficult because of the lack of identifiability of the parameters, the uncertainty in the tumor segmentations, and the model approximation, which cannot perfectly capture the complex dynamics of the tumor evolution. Our approach aims at analyzing the uncertainty in the patient specific parameters of a tumor growth model, by sampling from the posterior probability of the parameters knowing the magnetic resonance images of a given patient. The estimation of the posterior probability is based on: i) a highly parallelized implementation of the reaction-diffusion equation using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), and ii) a high acceptance rate Monte Carlo technique called Gaussian Process Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (GPHMC). We compare this personalization approach with two commonly used methods based on the spherical asymptotic analysis of the reaction-diffusion model, and on a derivativefree optimization algorithm. We demonstrate the performance of the method on synthetic data, and on seven patients with a glioblastoma, the most aggressive primary brain tumor. This Bayesian personalization produces more informative results. In particular, it provides samples from the regions of interest and highlights the presence of several modes for some patients. In contrast, previous approaches based on optimization strategies fail to reveal the presence of different modes, and correlation between parameters.
Induction of Terminal Differentiation by the c-Jun Dimerization Protein JDP2 in C2 Myoblasts and Rhabdomyosarcoma Cells*

Muscle cell differentiation is a result of a complex interplay between transcription factors and cell signaling proteins. Proliferating myoblasts must exit from the cell cycle prior to their differentiation. The muscle regulatory factor and myocyte enhancer factor-2 protein families play a major role in promoting muscle cell differentiation. Conversely, members of the AP-1 family of transcription factors that promote cell proliferation antagonize muscle cell differentiation. Here we tested the role of the c-Jun dimerization protein JDP2 in muscle cell differentiation. Endogenous expression of JDP2 was induced in both C2C12 myoblast and rhabdomyosarcoma (RD) cells programmed to differentiate. Ectopic expression of JDP2 in C2C12 myoblast cells inhibited cell cycle progression and induced spontaneous muscle cell differentiation. Likewise, constitutive expression of JDP2 in RD cells reduced their tumorigenic characteristics and restored their ability to differentiate into myotubes. JDP2 potentiated and synergized with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate to induce muscle cell differentiation of RD cells. In addition, JDP2 induced p38 activity in both C2 and RD cells programmed to differentiate. This is the first demonstration of a single transcription factor that rescues the myogenic program in an otherwise non-differentiating cancer cell line. Our results indicate that the JDP2 protein plays a major role in promoting skeletal muscle differentiation via its involvement in cell cycle arrest and activation of the myogenic program.
Retail brand orientation, positional advantage and organisational performance

This study adopts a resource-based view of branding referred to as brand orientation. Despite the importance of branding in retail, relatively little empirical research has been conducted to understand the degree to which retailers can be considered brand oriented. The purpose of the present research is to establish a conceptualisation of brand orientation that is applicable in a retail context across countries. Moreover, we seek to empirically validate a model of the retail brand orientation–positional advantage–organisational performance relationship and to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the factors driving retailer performance. A mail survey was used to collect data from retail firms in Australia, USA and UK. The unit of analysis is the retail firm. Confirmatory factor analysis was employed to assess the measurement properties of the study constructs and structural equation modelling was performed to test the research model. The findings suggest that four elements of retail brand orientation (functionality, distinctiveness, augmentation and symbolism) play different roles in relation to certain aspects of positional advantage, which highlights the importance of developing strength in all four areas. Similarly, a position of superiority in only one aspect of a retailer's offer is insufficient to assure both financial and strategic returns.
Theories and Models of Electronic Commerce

A systems model is used to illustrate the information flow between three subsystems in e-commerce: Store Environment, Customer, and Web Technology. In the process of purchase, a customer makes several decisions: to enter the store, to navigate, to purchase, and to pay. This artificial environment must be designed so that it can support customer decision-making. At the same time it must be pleasing and fun, and create a task with natural flow. The paper summarizes existing research and theories, and provides a few suggestions for future research.
Effects of Wehalose on Freeze Tolerance of Baker ’ s Yeast

A conventional baker’s yeast strain D incorporated trehalose into its cells from a YPG medium supplemented with trehalose. Cells cultured in a medium containing 3 to 5% trehalose increased to nearly 5 times the trehalose content of cells cultured in the absence of trehalose. After 1 day of frozen storage at -2O”C, cells cultured in 3% trehalose medium experienced a lesser decrease in both viability and CO, productivity than cells cultured in the absence of trehalose. Even after 10 days frozen storage, the strain D cultured in the 3% trehalose medium retained to nearly 50% of the viability and CO, productivity of t,he unfrozen cells. Although the freeze-tolerant yeast strains DFT and S. cerevisiae MAFF lo-03056 showed, during freezing, smaller decreases in viability than strain D, the large decreases in CO? productivity were comparable among all three strains. The CO1 productivity in both freeze-tolerant strains cultured in the presence of 3% trehalose was about 60% of that in the unfrozen cells, even after 10 days of frozen storage. The CO2 productivity and actin content of the cell-free extracts prepared from the strain D cultured in YPG medium decreased significantly to about 15% and 30% of those of the unfrozen cells, respectively, after 7 days of frozen storage. When the cells cultured in the presence of 3% trehalose were frozen-stored, the CO1 productivity of the cellfree extracts prepared from 7-days frozen-stored cells decreased to 50% of that from the unfrozen cells. The actin content, however, did not decrease after the same frozen storage. In eukaryotic cells, the activities of some glycolytic enzymes are increased by association with actin. It seems that the native structure of actin is necessary for yeast CO, productivity after frozen storage.