Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influential Factor of Financial Products in Social Network Environment

The ever-progressing development of social network and Internet finance has changed consumers’ perception and purchase decision of online financial products. Compared with traditional financial products, the online ones, originated from social networks with huge flow, present a wealth of information including both product and platform information, such as product recommendation, comments and purchase record. Consumers exchange useful information through social networks and changed their perceptions of financial products, thus affecting their choice and purchase. In this process, social capital plays an important role. Based on social capital theory, this paper explored the influence of social capital from different dimensions on users’ perceived benefit and perceived risk, thus affecting their decision. This paper collected data from 263 sample members who purchased financial products on WeChat, and adopted structural equation model to verify relevant hypothesis. The results reveal that perceived risk and perceived benefit in social network environment both have significant impacts on consumers’ purchase intention of financial products. The structural dimension of social capital has negative impacts on perceived benefit and slight impacts on perceived risk. The cognitive dimension of social capital has positive effects on perceived benefit and perceived risk. The relational dimension of social capital bears significant positive impacts on perceived benefit and significant negative impacts on perceived risk. The results of this paper provide favorable theoretical basis and practical value for the understanding of consumers’ willingness to purchase financial products in social network environment.
MOLECULAR AUTHENTICATION OF THYMUS PERSICUS BASED ON nrDNA ITS SEQUENCES DATA

Thymus persicus is an endemic species of the genus Thymus (Lamiaceae) which grows in Zanjan and West Azerbaijan (Takab) provinces of Iran. Among the Iranian Thymus species, T. persicus is well differentiated by having the smallest leaf width among Thymus species with long non-glandular and short glandular hairs. In order to evaluate the phylogenetic relationships of the T. persicus and T. marandensis Jamzad, the recently and assumed related species to T. brachychilus Jalas and T. leucotrichus Hal. , a molecular analysis based on nrDNA ITS sequences of 25 accessions belonging to 19 species of Thymus together with representatives of genera Origanum, Thymbra, Satureja, Micromeria, Gontscharovia, Ziziphora, Saccocalyx and Zataria was performed. The results of phylogenetic analysis showed that the genus Thymus is paraphyletic when the monotypic genus Saccocalyx is included and its sister relationship with Origanum was confirmed. While the phylogenetic position of T. persicus among the other taxa of Thymus is appeared unresolved. T. marandensis turned out to be the sister to a group of Thymus species including T. carmanicus, T. migricus, T. pubescens, T. trautvetteri and T. daenensis.
Offline Persian Writer Identification Based on Wavelet Analysis

In this paper we introduce a new efficient approach for writer identification and verification based on written style. At first, the handwritten text image is normalized then the handwritten features are extracted by wavelet transform and KNN1 co-occurrence matrix. At last, handwritings are classified by a classifiers and the writer is being identified. Experimental results on variety of handwriting databases confirm the efficiency of this method. Writer recognition rate of this method is 93.3%. Numerical results are presented in continue.
Indoor Waterpark: An Examination of Physical Activity Levels and Use Patterns of Youth Participants

This study examined patterns and levels of physical activity of youth participants at an indoor waterpark in rural southern Indiana. The System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities (SOPARC) was the instrument used to guide data collection for the study to determine youth physical activity postures coded as sedentary, walking, or vigorous. Participants consisted of youths, ages 4 to18, who attended the park during the data collection. Results converged into seven main target areas representing data for age groupings, gender, and physical activity postures. Frequencies were calculated for variables involving counts and moderatevigorous physical activity (MVPA). A series of one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were performed using total metabolic equivalents (METs). Physical activity in the waterpark was shown to have the capability to produce moderate and vigorous levels of physical activity overall and to also generate a variety of differences among individuals and activity areas at the facility.
A Systematic Review on the Intersection of Homelessness and Healthcare

Background: Nurses must understand the needs and barriers of people who are homeless when they are in a health care environment in order to render effective care. Objective: The objective of this review is to synthesize research findings on studies that examine the needs and barriers of people who are homeless in Canada when they intersect with health care providers. Methods: A scope of manuscripts, published in English from 1980 to 2011 that assess the needs and barriers of people experiencing homelessness in Canada when in the health sector without limitation on study design from different electronic databases and manual searches, was conducted. Results: Six articles (N=4 qualitative, N=2 quantitative) met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Eight themes emerged from a narrative synthesis of the findings. Conclusion: Individuals who are homeless have multiple needs when in the health care sector. Thus, collaboration among different disciplines is essential in order to provide them with holistic care. *Corresponding author: Solina Richter, Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, Canada, Tel: 780 492 7953; Fax: 780 492 2551; E-mail: solina.richter@ualberta.ca Received May 25, 2012; Accepted June 25, 2012; Published June 27, 2012 Citation: Darkwah V, Yamane H, Richter S, Caine V, Maina G, et al. (2012) A Systematic Review on the Intersection of Homelessness and Healthcare in Canada. J Nurs Care 1:115. doi:10.4172/2167-1168.1000115 Copyright: © 2012 Darkwah V, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Hepatoprotective activity of Ficus sycomorus L. against N-nitrosodiethylamine and CCl4-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in experimental Rats

The hepatoprotective activity of the different extracts of Ficus sycomorus L. (FS) against N nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) and CCl4-induced hepatocarcinogenesis (HCC) in rats has been investigated for the first time. Histological observations of liver tissues demonstrated that, both wood (FSWE) and leaf extracts (FSLE) possess significant hepatoprotective activity and stem bark extract (FSBE) shows moderate activity while fruit extract (FSFE) is not significantly effective.
PROTIUM AND ANTIPROTIUM IN RIEMANNIAN DUAL 4D SPACE-TIME

In this preliminary paper, we apply the Riemannian dual (fractional quantum Hall superfluidic) space-time topology and the six-coloring Gribov vacuum to protium and antiprotium. The results suggest that it may be possible to generalize this framework to all atomic elements. Therefore, this subject warrants further scrutiny, collaboration, refinement, and investigation.
A comparison of social, family and inter-personal experiences of primary and secondary school children in Malaysia

In this study, 307 primary and secondary school children were surveyed to ascertain the differences in their interpersonal experiences that may vary according to their ages. Group comparison analyses of the data indicated that comparatively the secondary school children used more coping strategies such as avoidance, distraction, emotion orientation and task orientation. The secondary school children also reported that their parents used less harsh discipline on them, and that they received less social support from their parents and teachers.
Prevalence and Contributing Factors of Childhood Physical Abuse in Households and at Schools among School Adolescents in Arba Minch Town, Southern Ethiopia

Background: Though millions of children around the world are the victims and witnesses of physical abuse, every child has the right to health and a life free from violence. Therefore the objective of this study was to assess Prevalence and Contributing Factors of Childhood Physical Abuse in Households and in schools among School adolescents, Arba Minch Town. Methods: Institution based cross sectional study design was employed from Jan 11 to Feb 11/2016. The sample size of 737 was selected through multi-stage sampling techniques. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire and interview from 7th to 10th grade students and analyzed by SPSS (IBM 20). Descriptive statistics, bivariate and multiple variable analyses were done. Results: A total of 718 (97.4 %) school children were participated in the study. Among them, 462 (64%) students faced childhood physical abuse. Of these, 77.3% abused by parents and 58.4% abused by school community. Age, sex (AOR=2.439; 95% CI=1.370, 4.348), presence of domestic violence (AOR=8.929; 95% CI=4.292, 18.519) and where the child grown up (AOR=0.460; 95% CI=0.220, 0.940) were contributing factors for childhood physical abuse. Conclusions: Majority of children in Arba Minch town have experienced childhood physical abuse at household and school environment.
India and its Diaspora: making sense of Hindu identity in South Africa

Indian immigrants to South Africa in the late nineteenth century differed in terms of their origins, motivations, belief systems, customs, and practices from the indigenous African population as well as from the ruling white settler elite. It is within this context that this paper interrogates some of the ways in which several generations of (Indian) Hindus constructed and continue to (re)construct their religious identities in South Africa. Data for this study were achieved by administering face-to-face questionnaires to 66 individuals in the Metropolitan Area of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The sample (selected through snowball sampling) comprised third to fifth generation Indians belonging to the four major language groups (Tamil, Telegu, Gujarati, and Hindi) residing in South Africa. Following the questionnaire responses, interviews were conducted with a selected number of respondents from the same sample. Quantitative data were analysed using SPSS while analysis of qualitative data followed a thematic model.
Collaborative R&D as a Strategy to Attenuate Financing Constraints

The ability of firms to establish R&D collaborations that combine resources, exploit complementary know-how, and internalize R&D externalities has been shown to be of high importance for the successful creation and implementation of new knowledge. We argue in this article that collaborative R&D may not only be beneficial in terms of appropriability of returns to R&D investment, access to the partner's knowledge base and the exploitation of scale and scope in R&D, but that it may also be a strategy to cope with financing constraints for R&D. Studying panel data we show that collaboration with science alleviates liquidity constraints for research. Horizontal collaboration reduces liquidity constraints for both research as well as R and D. Vertical collaboration has no such effects.
Angiotensin receptor blocker directly binds to HSP and stimulates its production in the brain

Antihypertensive angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockers (ARBs) have neuroprotective effects that were independent of the reduction of blood pressure. We have previously shown that vulnerable hippocampal CA1 neurons underwent delayed cell death through mitochondria-dependent apoptotic pathway after global cerebral ischemia, but ARB protected these neurons from cell death. To elucidate the mechanism of neuroprotection by ARB candesartan, candesartan-specific binding proteins were first investigated using candesartan-affinity column and rat hippocampal tissue. And, the affinity of ARB and the binding protein was further examined by BIAcore binding assay. Then, the distribution and expression of the protein were characterized by immunohisotochemistry and Western blots. By affinity column study, molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) was identified as a binding target of candesartan. BIAcore assay proved functional binding of candesartan to HSP90. Immunohistochemistry showed increased HSP90 expression in the hippocampal CA1 neurons as early as 1 day after candesartan treatment. Westen blots confirmed temporal changes in HSP90 expression. HSP90 maintains the stability of the proteins as a molecular chaperone and has been recently proven to inhibit apoptosis in in vitro studies. Our data suggest that HSP90 may play an important role in neuronal protection by ARB treatment through blocking mitochondria-dependent apoptosis.
Performance Study on Natural Marker Detection for Augmented Reality Supported Facility Maintenance

The operation and maintenance phase is the longest and most expensive life-cycle period of building facilities. Operators need to perform activities to provide a comfortable living and working environment and to upkeep equipment to prevent functionality failures. For that purpose they manually browse, sort and select dispersed and unformatted facility information before actually going on the site. Although some software tools have been introduced, they still spent 50% of the on-site work on inspection target localization and navigation. To improve these manual, time consuming and tedious procedures, the authors previously presented a framework that uses BIM-based Augmented Reality (AR) to support facility maintenance tasks. The proposed workflow contains AR supported activities, namely AR-based indoor navigation and AR-based maintenance instructions. An inherent problem of AR is marker definition and detection. As introduced, indoor natural markers such as exit signs, fire extinguisher location signs, and appliances’ labels were identified to be suitable for both navigation and maintenance instructions. However, small markers, changing lighting conditions, low detection frame rates and accuracies might prevent the proposed approach from being practical. In this paper the performance of natural marker detection will be evaluated under different configurations, varying marker types, marker sizes, camera resolutions and lighting conditions. The detection performance will be measured using pre-defined metrics incorporating detection accuracy, tracking quality, frame rates, and robustness. The result will be a set of recommendations on what configurations are most suitable and practical within the given framework.
Critical Issues and Problems in Web-Based Instruction in Higher Education: A Delphi Study

There has been a considerable amount of professional pressure, and numerous position papers, in recent years expressing both the need for and the hypothetical limitations of Web-based instruction (WBI) in higher education. Thus as universities move toward the use of Web-based education (WBE), there is an increasing need to discover what university professors think about this new instructional environment. This paper attempts to clarify some of the issues and problems facing WBI in higher education in Taiwan. A Delphi method study was conducted in order to identify the issues and problems we face; twenty-seven panels were used in the four-round Delphi to identify these issues and problems. On ten issues and twelve problems a consensus of opinion was reached by the experts. The issues and problems identified were then classified into five categories: (1) theory, which involved two issues and one problem; (2) instruction, involving three issues and three problems; (3) delivery, involving one issue and three problems; (4) environment, including one issue and three problems; and (5) related factors, involving three issues and two problems. It was found that, in an examination of the top five items within the total set of issues and problems, the most prominent ones came under the categories of instruction and delivery.
Studying learning performance using a M-Learning Approach

With an aid of portable and wireless devices nowadays, a mobile learning platform for delivering multimedia content can be easily created and this has greatly nourished the development of mobile learning these years. This paper presents a mobile learning platform as a motivational and interesting learning tool, which is capable in improving students’ learning outcomes. Students will have no limitations in accessing online materials through such effective and always-available platform. This research aims to explore the potential of the proposed platform in improving student learning performance.
A CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORK FOR SEMANTIC FACADE SEGMENTATION AND INTERPRETATION

Abstract. In this paper we present an approach for semantic interpretation of facade images based on a Convolutional Network. Our network processes the input images in a fully convolutional way and generates pixel-wise predictions. We show that there is no need for large datasets to train the network when transfer learning is employed, i. e. , a part of an already existing network is used and fine-tuned, and when the available data is augmented by using deformed patches of the images for training. The network is trained end-to-end with patches of the images and each patch is augmented independently. To undo the downsampling for the classification, we add deconvolutional layers to the network. Outputs of different layers of the network are combined to achieve more precise pixel-wise predictions. We demonstrate the potential of our network based on results for the eTRIMS (Korc and Forstner, 2009) dataset reduced to facades.
Simulation of Cement Manufacturing Process and Demand Forecasting of Cement Industry

Demand forecasts form the basis of all supply chain planning. The supply chain decisions made before demand has materialized are made to a forecast. Forecasting may involve taking historical data and projecting them into the future with some mathematical model. Good forecasts are of critical importance in all aspects of business. A company’s forecasting techniques affect the overall supply chain management. Different quantitative methods can be used to forecast future demand. Simulation process allows a company to run different experiment on process that will achieve the desired goal. This research is focused on the simulation of cement manufacturing process to find out the production loss of machines that will affect the production quantity, and analyzing different methods of forecasting to compare their errors so that appropriate forecasting method is identified to predict correct demand. Depending on the forecasting, the simulation process applied can aid to estimate amount of raw materials require producing particular amount of cement to fulfill the demand including the losses in various steps of manufacturing process. Moreover seasonality of demand is considered where the same demand will repeat at a particular period. The longer horizon forecasts, using Holt-Winters method, are usually less precise than the shorter horizon forecast; that is, long horizon forecasts have larger standard deviations. Customer demand of cement consumption is calculated from quantitative survey. A random sampling method is implemented to find out overall distribution of demand of cement production in Bangladesh. This investigation on overall demand could facilitate the comparison between the futures forecasted demand and the overall customer demand. The cement industry can adapt the demand pattern to produce desired amount of cement that optimize production costs.
Characterization of GPX1 and DIO1 Genes in Bubalus Bubalis

Selenoprotein genes contain selenium in the form of selenocysteine which is involved in protecting the cells from oxidative stress. Soils in India differ greatly in selenium concentrations affecting feed stuffs for selenium availability. Selenoproteins have recently been identified in variety of living organisms including humans which have 25 selenoprotein genes. Among these families of selenoprotein genes, we sequenced Gpx1 gene (Glutathione peroxidases1) and Dio1 gene (Iodothyronine deiodinases) in Bubalus bubalis. Gpx1 is most abundant and ubiquitously expressed selenoprotein which helps to protect against the damaging effects of hydrogen peroxide and oxygen rich free radicals whereas Dio1 is expressed mainly in liver, thyroid gland and adipose tissue, its main function is to convert tetraiodothyronine (T4) to its active form thyroxine (T3) in the presence of deiodinases enzyme. The main aim of the study was to characterize these two genes and to find out the buffalo specific SNPs. This was accomplished by designing primers using cattle database and sequencing a panel of 24 samples consisting of 6 diverse breeds of buffalo. Gpx1 consisted of 2 exons (Accession ID: JQ031269) while Dio1 comprised 4 exons (Accession ID: JQ791197). In Gpx1 gene, 9 SNPs were recorded and 4 were non synonymous, changing amino acid were distributed equally in both exon. In exon 1, A141G (aa Q5R) and G161A (aa A12T); and in exon 2 C785T (aa R132W) and A808T (aa S139R). In Dio1 gene, 3 non synonymous SNPs were identified at A188G (aa H22R), C215G (aa T31R) and G941A (aa V146I). These SNPs are novel and reported for the first time in Indian buffalo and has a potential for their use in diversity analysis and association with various selenium related traits.
Thai Dialects and Structural Modeling with Noises

Fundamental Frequency (F0) conveys the prosodic information of the human speech. The modeling of the dialects’ F0 in a particular language is vital issu e that should be taken into account. Four main dial ects are spoken in different regions of Thailand including c entral, north, northeast and south regions. Another important issue is the environmental noises which i s often be perceived in the daily life and causing the degradation in speech quality. The robustness of th e F0 modeling techniques can be evaluated by studyi ng the effects of noises for Thai dialects. The struct ural model has been chosen in this study. The four- type background noises with five different levels of pow er are applied in this study. The synthesized F0 fr om the structural model has been compared with the F0 from natural speech with different scenarios including noise types, noise levels speech dialects and speec h genders. From the experimental results, the root mean square errors between the synthesized F0 and t he natural F0 are calculated. When increasing the noise level, the root mean square error decreases. As for the different noise types, air-conditioner n oise gives the highest level of root mean square error, while the train noise brings the lowest level of ro ot mean square error. As for the different male speech dialects, center and northeast dialects are rather higher than those of north and south dialects. As f or the different female speech dialects, north dial ect has the smallest deviation among all dialects. As for t he different genders, female speech give higher roo t mean square error than male speech for all types of noises and all power levels of noises. By using th e structural model, the results confirm that all Thai dialects response the proposed model differently. Moreover, all four types of simulated noises deteri orate the F0 contours of all dialects differently.