Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Trust Seals, Information Disclosure, and Gender on Customers’ Trust and Willingness to Disclose Personal Information on Small B2C E-Commerce Website

Drawing from cue utilization and signaling theory, this study aims to examine the effect of trust seals, information disclosure, gender, and its interactions on customers’ trust and willingness to disclose personal information in the context of small B2C E-commerce website. A full factorial 2X2 between-subject experimental design was conducted and there were 280 participants participated in this study. Our findings suggest that: 1). The presence of trust seals in the small B2C e-commerce website has a strong positive impact on trust and willingness to disclose. 2). The presence of trust seals is only useful when online retailer requesting a high degree of information disclosure. 3). Under conditions of a high degree of information disclosure, the effect of trust seals on willingness to disclose is more significant in male than in female. 4). There is a positive relationship between trust and willingness to disclose.
Isolation and Characterization of Starch From Mangifera Indica Seed Kernel As A New Pharmaceutical Excipient

Starches apart from the known sources such as: potato, yam and cassava tubers, is also found richly in fruits usually discarded as waste materials after eating the pulp as found in the seed kernels of Mangifera indica. The Mangifera indica seed was manually separated from the hull (kernel) by de hulling, cut into small pieces of 5 to 10 mm and the starch extracted from the seed, following the processes of steeping, filtration, centrifugation, and bleaching. The average percentage yield of the starch obtained was about 24.6±0.12. The starch content of the seed was found to be rich in sodium (165.5mg/kg) and magnesium (43.45mg/kg) but no trace of deleterious elements such as lead or arsenic. Proximate analysis of the M. indica starch reveals a carbohydrate content of 43.5%w/w and ash acid insoluble ash content of 1.42% and 1.23% w/w respectively. The pH of the extracted starch was 4.0, water absorption index was 32.81±0.02% and the flow properties as determined was comparable with that of corn starch used as reference standard.
Endoscopic Ultrasound - Guided Gastrojejunostomy Stent Placement - A Novel Technique to Manage Afferent Loop Syndrome

1. Abstract Afferent Loop Syndrome (ALS) is a complication caused by obstruction of the biliopancreatic limb after gastrointestinal reconstruction. Re-operation is preferred in surgically fit patients, but higher-risk patients have limited surgical options. We present a case of ALS secondary to duodenal cancer recurrence after a Whipple procedure, treated successfully with the novel endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastrojejunostomy stent placement (EUS-GJ). 2. Introduction Afferent loop is the duodenojejunal loop proximal to gastrojejunal anastomosis that carries biliopancreatic contents. Afferent Loop Syndrome (ALS) occurs when an intrinsic or extrinsic obstruction causes partial or complete blockage of the afferent loop. Increased intraluminal pressure in ALS causes severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and occasionally, bowel ischemia [1]. Surgical reconstruction is the preferred treatment, but in high-risk surgical patients, endoscopic placement of an enteral stent is an alternative [2, 3]. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastrojejunostomy stent placement (EUS-GJ) is a novel technique that allows endosonographic localization of the jejunum from inside the stomach and placement of a lumen-opposing stent across the newly created fistulous tract [3,4]. 3. Case Presentation A 60-year-old man initially presented with a resectable duodenal adenocarcinoma with pancreatic invasion. He underwent a Whipple procedure complicated by a pancreatic anastomotic leak that improved with non-surgical management. The patient later developed pulmonary embolism and was started on oral anticoagulation with IVC filter placement. Adjuvant chemotherapy with FOLFOX was started after, but discontinued due to severe abdominal pain, persistent nausea, anorexia and upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Computerized Tomography (CT) Abdomen revealed multiple hypodense hepatic lesions concerning for metastasis, a solid mass in the pancreatic bed suspicious for local recurrence and evidence of a distended afferent loop proximal to the area of local recurrence, with decompressed bowel distally (Figure 1A). Subsequent CT-guided biopsy of the liver lesions revealed metastatic adenocarcinoma of duodenal origin. After a multidisciplinary discussion, we decided to first try decompression by endoscopic or percutaneous approaches to avoid surgical morbidity due to his advanced malignancy. Our goal was to palliate his symptoms and allow him to restart systemic chemotherapy. The first attempt to place an intraluminal stent endoscopically failed because the afferent limb was significantly looped, preventing us from reaching the area of obstruction. The alternative was to use EUS-GJ from the stomach to the obstructed afferent loop. Although this technique has not been well-studied in these situations, it seemed viable as our patient’s afferent loop was dilated and fluid-filled. Moreover, the distance between the stomach and loop seemed appropriate on CT imaging (Figure 1B).
E MOTION B IAS IN A UTOMATIC S PEECH R ECOGNITION

Kurzfassung: In this paper, we investigate the effect of emotions on an established automatic speech recognition system using ﬁve emotional speech databases covering English, German, and Italian language. We computed the word error rates and the signiﬁcance of the ratio between the correctly and incorrectly recognized words per emotion category. Results showed a strong bias with an increase in word error rates of up to +73.7% when compared to neutral speech. The correlation between emotional categories and error rates was signiﬁcant at p = 0 . 001 for all datasets. We further tested the applicability of an existing CycleGAN for emotional speech conversion as a preprocessing step to transform speech to neutral state. The de-emotionalized speech produced by the trained networks was retested for recognition rates in comparison to emotionalized neutral speech.
Smart Home System using Renewable Energy Source and Web of Things

: Power plays an important role in our life as each and every devices are now being automated and this automated things requires electricity to perform their function. So to save electricity is main concern . As the electricity is generated from the fossil fuel which is non renewable sources which are depleting day by day and it also cause pollution which affects the society. The alternative to this is renewable sources which does not cause the pollution and it is one time investment ultimately it reduces the cost. Web of things plays an important role because each device is smart and it can be controlled as well as monitor through web. This paper describes how to save electricity by using renewable sources and monitoring the resources and also controlling the resources by using WOT. The different sensor are being used to control the on /off of the devices which will send the command to the controller i.e. raspberry pi by which the controlling action will be done . Controlling of the devices can be done through web page or through SMS from the mobile.
An Early Risk Prediction against Covid -19 Based On Adaptive Surf Scale Feature Selection and Sigmoid Recurrent Neural Network for Premature Precaution before Covid Second Wave

: The development of new technologies, human nature, and food activities are completely against with nature in recent days. Due to this uncertainty, the new pandemic covid-19 has outbreak globally and spoiledthe human life. In this situation, the disease also has improved as a new modified version of influenza like Covid 19 (2.0). So, the Analysis of features becomes mandatory to identify the diseases based on big data analysis. Similarly, most people suffering from diabetes could not have a correct prediction to take proper treatments. Many health care suggestions and treatment handling methods do not predict the right information at the correct time to make a diagnosis. There is no premature process for the treatment based on non-predicted results. Hence, an Adaptive Surf Scale Feature Selection (SSFS) and Sigmoid Recurrent Neural Network Classification (SRNN) is proposed for improving the early risk prediction against the covid. Initially, preprocessing is carried out to verify the records. Then, future selection is carried out using the surf scale weightage factor, which analyzes the Covid Influence Rate (CIR) and the marginal weight is identified. Each identified weight is ruled into Inter Class Sigmoid Function (ICSF) to activate the iteration recurrent neural network. Finally, the classifier trains the features into a feed-forward layer to produce the classified result. The proposed system produces high performance compared to the previous system as well as recommendations for premature diagnoses.
Palm Feature ANN-FTPCA Optimization for Palmprint Recognition

: The proposed work aims to enhance the features of palms using ANN optimization in MATLAB and will be tested on databases available for palmprint recognition. Also the comparisons of the tested results are made for achieving accuracy and efficiency for its versatility of operation over a global population. By increasing the security of parson ’ s authentication (identification and verification) the palmprint modality played most important trait compare with another biometrics trait (physiological or behavioral) and it is active research which made more attention for the researcher who interest in biometrics fields. In the recent years, there are numbers of technologies were developed related to biometrics authentication system but the palmprint get less development depend on reliability and cost. As a definition of palmprint which defines as a small area of palm surface, which containing more information which is useful for person authentication system, in additional it has a unique feature (uniqueness means no two people has same this feature) also it called permanence it will not change in all period of time in the life. For this reason, palmprint are reliable and confident modality between the same categories of palmprint like fingerprint and face etc.
Effect of live food enriched with the probiotic Spomune©, on the survival and growth of Cambarellus montezumae (Saussure, 1857) under controlled conditions

For the present investigation, the effect of a live food enriched with a probiotic was evaluated in 120 juvenile dregs of Cambarellus montezumae species with an average size and weight of 21 ± 2 (mm) and 0.490 ± 0.130 (g) respectively. Throughout the investigation, the organisms were kept in six translucent squared aquariums with 40 L of fresh water, at a temperature of 24 ± 1 °C, with a natural photoperiod and with 20 bowls each. The specimens were fed for 24 weeks with Tubifex tubifex slimeworm inoculated with 1 X 10 CFU/g with the probiotic Spomune© (Bacillus subtilis and Clostridium butyricum). To verify the effect of the probiotic on the organisms, survival, growth (height and weight) as well as their degree of well-being were determined. The results show that the specimens fed with the enriched diet have a 95% survival compared to those fed with the unenriched diet was 48%. On the other hand, the growth showed significant differences between the two treatments (p <0.003) since the weight at the end of the experiment was 3.263 and 1.519 g with and without the incorporation of the probiotic in the food, respectively. In addition to this, the organisms fed without the probiotic presented a weight gain of only 0.774 g; while those fed the probiotic was 2.773 g. This knowledge generated allows to propose strategies for the conservation of the species, in the same way with this research the biological bases for a better cultivation in extensive, semi-intensive and intensive systems, under controlled conditions can be laid. This would reduce the pressure on this resource in its natural habitat, giving way to the recovery of natural populations and managing to meet the demand that this organism has at the local level and for aquarium purposes as live food.
Robust Question Answering System

Pretrained models like BERT achieves good performance when we ﬁne-tune it to resourceful QA tasks like SQuAD. However, when we apply the model to out-of-domain QA tasks with different question and passage sources, the performance degraded badly. We discovered that the domain change in passage source is the main contributor to worse performance. We investigated ways to improve robustness of pretrained QA systems by experimenting on different optimizers, freezing and re-initializing model layers during training. We found that AdamW is the best optimizer for training on out-of-domain QA datasets, and freezing just the embedding block of DistilBERT improves model performance the most.
Non-genetic and genetic effects related to birth and weaning weight in crossbred dairy goats

1 Autonomous University of Mexico State, Centro Universitario Temascaltepec, México 2 The Central University of Venezuela, Veterinary Sciences Faculty, Caracas, Venezuela 3 Massey University, School of Agriculture and Environment, Palmerston North, New Zealand 4 Technological Institute of the Valley of Morelia, Morelia, México 5 Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Center for Genomic Biotechnology, Reynosa, México
Crafting a Confucian Culture in Chinese Corporations: A Case Study of Guangzhou Borche

Corporate culture is an important source of enterprise’s soft power. Confucianism, which has been regarded as official teaching over a thousand years, manifests its profound values in modern management and is adopted by a number of private companies in China. This paper employs a case study method, concentrating on the development of Borche a private enterprise in Guangzhou. Data and other information were collected from interviews, open reports and historical records and got ensured by triangulation verification. It seeks to explain how the Confucianism got internalized as part of a corporate culture and serves us its management guideline. The result demonstrates that the internalization of Confucian values in a corporation will go through three stages: cultural identity, identity strengthening and spontaneous order. Confucianism’s corporate culture is reflected in four aspects: of spirit, institution, behavior, and matter. The cultural infiltration mechanism is thus created.
Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Intergenerational Effects of Randomly Allocating Refugees Across Language Regions

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large shares of French (or Italian) speakers for historical reasons and upon arrival are by law randomly allocated across states that are dominated by different languages but subject to the same jurisdiction. Our findings based on administrative records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously allocated to an environment that matched their linguistic heritage are on average 72 gram heavier (or 2.2%) than those that were allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2.9 percentage point difference in low birth weight incidence. We find substantial dose-response relationships in terms of language exposure in both, the origin country and the destination region. Moreover, French (Italian) exposed refugees only benefit from French-(Italian-) speaking destinations, but not vice versa. Contrasting the language match with co-ethnic networks, we find that high quality networks are acting as a substitute rather than a complement.
Couple/Family Interventions for PTSD

The past 20 years have seen the research and practice of couple and family interventions for PTSD blossom, with the focus and nature of these interventions varying. We have previously offered a heuristic to help consumers, researchers, clinicians, and policy makers alike understand the aims and points of interventions of these therapies (see Monson et al., 2012 in additional papers). In essence, these interventions can be categorized based on their aim to improve individual outcomes (i.e., PTSD and its comorbidities), relational outcomes (e.g., relationship satisfaction), or both. When people think of couple/family therapy, they often think of general couple/family therapy that has the goal of improving relationships, and a member of the couple or family happens to have PTSD. In this way, the couple/family therapy is usually considered adjunctive to an individual or group disorder-specific therapy, like Prolonged Exposure or Cognitive Processing Therapy, in the case of PTSD. Treatments that aim to improve both domains are described as disorder-specific couple/family therapies in that they use the couple/family therapy format to improve a specific disorder — in this case PTSD — and to improve relationship outcomes. These therapies target mechanisms that are thought to underlie problems in both areas (e.g., behavioral avoidance maintains PTSD and diminishes mutually satisfying activities in couples/families). These treatments are generally offered as stand-alone therapies because of their explicit goals of improving both PTSD and relationship functioning. There is also a class of interventions that use spouses or adult loved ones to support the delivery of individual
Effects of cadmium chloride on reproductive parameters, nephrotoxicity, hepatotoxicity and oxidative stress markers in male guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of cadmium on reproductive parameters and oxidative stress in male guinea pig (Cavia porcellus). Materials and methods: Thirty two (32) male guinea pigs were randomly assigned to four groups of eight each. Group 1 received distilled water orally; groups 2, 3 and 4 were treated with cadmium chloride at doses 8.75, 13.13 and 26.25 mg/kg.b. w. respectively. After 90 days of treatment, all animals were sacrificed and data collected. Result: Results revealed a significant (p < 0.05) increase of kidney and liver weights in cadmium chloridetreated animals compared to the control groups. Serum level of creatinine, urea, ALAT, ASAT significantly (P <0.05) increased and serum total proteins and total cholesterol significantly (P <0.05) decreased in all cadmium chloride-treated animals compared to the control. The weights of testes and epididymis and the volume of testes were significantly (p <0.05) lower in treated guinea pigs compared to controls. Seminal vesicle and bulbo urethral gland weights significantly (P <0.05) increased in group gavaged with the highest dose of cadmium chloride (26.25 mg/kg) compared to controls. Sperm mobility and count, the percentage of sperm with intact plasma membrane were significantly elevated in animals exposed to the highest dose of cadmium chloride (26.25 mg/kg) compared to controls. The percentages of micro -, macrocephalic and coiled-tailed spermatozoa were significantly increased in animals given the two largest doses (13.13 and 26.25 mg/kg) compared to controls. Serum testosterone concentration was significantly (p <0.05) lower in animals gavaged with cadmium chloride compared to control. The testicular activity of SOD, catalase, total peroxidase, malondialdehyde increased in cadmium chloride treated animals compared to control. Conclusion: In conclusion, exposure to cadmium chloride induced oxidative stress, renal, hepatic and reproductive toxicity in male guinea pig.
The Effect of Graphene Oxide Exfoliation Degree on Graphene Film Properties Grafen Oksit Tabakalanma Derecesinin Grafen Film Özelliklerine Etkisi

Interest in graphene, which is a new material, is increasing day by day due to its unique mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. Graphite oxide (GRO), which is synthesized as a result of a series of chemical processes of graphite, was used as the primary material in the production of graphene film. In this study, firstly, graphene oxide (GO) dispersions with different exfoliation degrees were prepared from de-ionized water (DI-water) and repeatedly washed GRO mixture at different ultrasound times. Then, GO films with the same film thickness were produced by casting of the prepared GO dispersions. GO films with different exfoliation degrees were thermally reduced to graphene at 1100 C, and the change in reduced graphene film (RGO) properties was investigated. XRD, SEM, and FTIR measurements were made for the characterization of thermally reduced graphene and GO films. While the maximum degree of exfoliation was obtained for GO films in 8 hours of ultrasound, the maximum degree of exfoliation was obtained even in 3 hours of ultrasound duruationby thermal reduction of GO films at 1100 C. KeywordsGraphene, Ultrasound, Thermal Reduction, Casting, Thick Film
Antibiotic Prophylaxis Decreases Surgical Site Infections after Radical Prostatectomy

Background: Routine use of Antibiotic Prophylaxis (AP) in Radical Prostatectomy (RP) is still questionable since no comparative placebo-controlled study has been conducted. The aim of the study was to describe Surgical Site Infections (SSI), identify predictive factors of SSI, and determine the role of AP in a large cohort of patients treated with RP. Methods: Laparoscopic or robot assisted RP was performed in 295 consecutive patients between January 2010 to December 2013 in a single academic institution. Patients and operative characteristics, post-operative complications and SSI were retrospectively collected. From July 2012, patients received systematic AP during the procedure. Qualitative and quantitative variables were compared by using chi2 and Student t tests. Relationships between SSI and patient or treatment parameters including use of AP were determined using univariable and multivariable regression logistic analyses. Results: 292 patients were analyzed. Median age was 62 years. 107 patients (36.6%) received AP. SSI occurred in 52 patients (17.8%). SSI were superficial incisional SSI (n=28), and organ/space SSI (n=26). No deep incisional SSI was reported. In univariable analysis, SSI was associated with a preoperative immunosuppressive therapy (HR=7.286; CI 95% = 1.185-44.761; p=0.035), post-operative complications (HR=2.545; CI 95% = 1.027-6.312; p=0.044), and use of AP (HR=0.458; CI 95% = 0.223-0.918; p=0.028). In multivariable analysis, only post-operative complications (HR=2.603; CI 95% = 1.014-6.680; p=0.047), and use of AP (HR=0.410; CI 95% = 0.198-0.847; p=0.016) remained independent predictors. Conclusion: Use of AP in RP is associated with a decrease of SSI. The impact of AP on SSI incidence should be confirmed in a comparative, prospective, controlled study.