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Brand Equity and the Cultural Event : The Amalgamation of Multiple Brands for a Unified Marketing Communications Performance

The following paper details and analyses the concept of "brand equity" in organisations presenting cultural events. Firstly differences between branding issues pertaining to cultural products compared to conventional products are highlighted. Next is a discussion of the concept of brand equity, or the value of a brand, culminating in the presentation of a Model of the Consumer-Perceived Brand Equity in a Cultural (Performing Arts) Event, and, a Model of the Sources of Brand Equity in a Cultural (Performing Arts) Event. Following is the presentation of the notion that the branding exercise and the development of brand equity for a cultural performance product, generally is the amalgamation of the brand equity pertaining to multifarious sources in the creation of an event, for example that of performers, directors, venue and sponsors. The paper concludes with an examination of a case study, examining the branding/brand equity components of entities amalgamating to stage a production by a principle theatre company in Sydney, Australia.
Step Semantics: Representations for State Changes in Natural Language

The dynamics of the world is often bound up in processes. These include continuous processes, such as flows and motion, and discrete processes, such as count and break. Things that occur in the world can often be described at multiple levels of detail, using combinations of continuous and discrete processes, and it is important to be able to shift among levels of detail as needed for communication and understanding. This paper describes step semantics, a framework that draws upon prior work in qualitative reasoning and discrete action representations to provide a set of representation conventions for processes described in natural language, independent of a particular task or dataset. We explore its potential in two ways: Analyses of recipes with complex temporal structure and learning from AI2’s ProPara dataset.
ZooKeeper: Distributed Process Coordination

Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you a head start, and points out caveats that developers and administrators alike need to watch for along the way. In three separate sections, ZooKeeper contributors Flavio Junqueira and Benjamin Reed introduce the principles of distributed systems, provide ZooKeeper programming techniques, and include the information you need to administer this service.
Comparison of "in-situ" mechanical tests on masonry mortars: Sphere impact and controlled penetration test

This study consisted of the analysis of the building materials of the Wall of Talamanca de Jarama, 40 km Northern from Madrid city. The structure is inscribed as a Cultural Interest Property of the region of Madrid. Its original role was as a defensive system around the village against enemies, with references to the beginning of its construction dating back to the I Oth - l l th centuries. The Wall is partially ruined, completely lacking some sections. The building materials used for the construction of the Wall are bricks, mortar (both joint and rendering mortars), stone and ramrned earth. The brick, due to its abundance and variability has been deeply studied. A detailed mapping of the different building materials was carried out. The petrography of the materials was performed by means of polarizing-light microscopy. Mineralogy was determined by X-Ray Diffraction. In the specific case of rammed earth materials, granulometry analysis was carried out. Among the petrophysical properties, the following were determined: colow- (spectrophotometer), anisotropy (ultrasounds velocity), hardness (Schmidt hammer), porosity and densities (saturation test), and micro and macroporosity (Hg intrusion porosimeter). Regarding bricks, results show five tipologies which could probably account for different historical periods. Firing temperatures have resulted on the best quality index for bricks. The main decay forms that have been observed in the Wall are grain disintegration, efflorescences, man-induced scratching, biodeterioration and dampness. Main decay causes are related to the water entry. Original bricks resulted better preserved than the more modem ones used for the substitution of the formers.
Regulatory Changes and Bank Equity Risk : The CAPM Cost of Capital and Lending Supply ∗

Regulation has changed the cost of capital for banks. Since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, banks’ value-weighted CAPM cost of capital has averaged 10.5% and declined by more than 4% relative to non-banks on a within-firm basis. This decrease has been driven by the very largest stress-tested banks and was much greater for larger banks than for smaller banks. We find that these changes in the systematic risk of bank equity have real economic consequences – increases in banks’ cost of capital are associated with tightening in credit supply and loan rates.
Improving user trust towards conversational chatbot interfaces with voice output

This thesis investigates the impact of the voice modality on user trust in conversational chatbot interfaces. The assumption is that trust can be increased by adding voice output to a chatbot and by a higher quality of a used text-to-speech synthesis. The thesis first introduces chatbots and the concept of conversational interfaces then defines trust in an online context. Based on this, a model for trust and perceiving factors for credibility, ease of use and risk is defined. An online experiment is conducted where participants run through conversational scenarios with a chatbot while varying the voice output. Followed by a survey to collect data about the perception of the trust factors for a scenario with no voice and two scenarios with different speech synthesis qualities. To analyse the ordinal data from the survey the ”Wilcoxon signedrank test”, a nonparametric statistical test, is conducted to compare trust for the voice output types. Results show that adding the voice output modality to a conversational chatbot interface increases the user trust towards the service. Furthermore, the assumption that synthesis quality has an effect on trust could not hold true because the results are not statistically significant. On this basis, the limitations of the used methods are discussed and suggestions for further research are proposed.
Meta-analysis on the possible role of interluekin-10 rs 1800896 polymorphism in association with prostate cancer susceptibility

Objective: Several studies have indicated that the interleukin-10 (IL-10) rs1800896 (-1082 A/G) polymorphism is associated with prostate cancer susceptibility. However, the current evidence was inconsistent. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis to examine the association between IL-10 rs1800896 polymorphism and prostate cancer risk. Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, CBM, CNKI, and Wanfang Data to identify potential studies up to March, 2016. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were used to evaluate the association between IL-10 rs1800896 polymorphism and prostate cancer risk. Statistic analyses were performed through Stata 12.0 software. Results: A total of 13 article with 14 case-control studies, including 5,068 prostate cancer patients and 5,459 controls. Overall, no significant association was found between IL-10 rs1800896 polymorphism and prostate cancer susceptibility. However, subgroup analysis showed that IL-10 rs1800896 polymorphism increased the risk of prostate cacner in Asian populations (G vs A: OR = 1.44, 95% CI = 1.07-1.94; GA vs AA OR = 2.14, 95% CI: 1.014.53; GG+GA vs AA: OR = 1.91, 95% CI = 1.18-3.11). Conclusion: Our meta-analysis showed that IL-10 rs1800896 polymorphism may not be associated with prostate cancer susceptibility in overall populaitons, however, it might increase the risk in Asians.
Biological markers in infl ammatory bowel disease : Practical consideration for clinicians

The biomarkers are important in the Infl ammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) to gain an objective measurement of disease activity and severity, as well as prognostic indicator and outcome of therapy. And they can be helpful to avoid invasive procedures. The ideal biomarker does not exist for IBD and it is likely that more than one biomarker will be needed. Biological markers potentially useful in IBD include acute-phase proteins, fecal markers, several antibodies and novel genetic determinants. The C-reactive protein (CRP) is the most studied and has been shown to be an objective marker of infl ammation. CRP is a good marker of measuring disease activity in Crohn’s disease (CD) and its levels can be used to guide therapy. The fecal markers (calprotectin and lactoferrin) may be helpful in differentiating patients with IBD from those with functional disorders and to predict clinical relapse. The panel of serologic markers (anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibody, perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, anti-OmpC and anti-I2 and antiglycan antibodies) for IBD can be used to stratify IBD patients into more homogeneous subgroups with respect to disease progression. Correlating serologic markers with genotypes and clinical phenotypes should enhance our understanding of the pathophysiology of IBD. The development of biomarkers in IBD will be very important in the future with the increasing utilization of novel methodological approaches like genomics and proteomics. © 2009 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
Privacy Attitudes of Smart Speaker Users

Abstract As devices with always-on microphones located in people’s homes, smart speakers have significant privacy implications. We surveyed smart speaker owners about their beliefs, attitudes, and concerns about the recordings that are made and shared by their devices. To ground participants’ responses in concrete interactions, rather than collecting their opinions abstractly, we framed our survey around randomly selected recordings of saved interactions with their devices. We surveyed 116 owners of Amazon and Google smart speakers and found that almost half did not know that their recordings were being permanently stored and that they could review them; only a quarter reported reviewing interactions, and very few had ever deleted any. While participants did not consider their own recordings especially sensitive, they were more protective of others’ recordings (such as children and guests) and were strongly opposed to use of their data by third parties or for advertising. They also considered permanent retention, the status quo, unsatisfactory. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for more agreeable data retention policies and future privacy controls.
Guidelines 2019 Focused Update of the Guidelines of the Taiwan Society of Cardiology for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Failure

Heart failure is a growing epidemic, especially in Taiwan because of the aging population. The 2016 Taiwan Society of Cardiology – Heart Failure with reduced Ejection Fraction (TSOC-HFrEF) registry showed that the guidelinerecommended therapies were prescribed suboptimally both at the time of hospital discharge and during followup. We, therefore, conducted this 2019 focused update of the guidelines of the Taiwan Society of Cardiology for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure to reinforce the importance of new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities of heart failure. The 2019 focused update discusses new diagnostic criteria, pharmacotherapy, non-pharmacological management, and certain co-morbidities of heart failure. Angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor and If channel inhibitor is introduced as new and recommended medical therapies. Latest criteria of cardiac resynchronization therapy, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, heart transplantation, and ventricular assist device therapy are reviewed in the non-pharmacological management chapter. Co-morbidities in heart failure are discussed including chronic kidney disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and sleep-disordered breathing. We also explain the adequate use of oxygen therapy and non-invasive ventilation in heart failure management. A particular chapter for chemotherapy-induced cardiac toxicity is incorporated in the focused update to emphasize the importance of its recognition and management. Lastly, implications from the TSOC-HFrEF registry and post-acute care of heart failure are discussed to highlight the importance of guideline-directed medical therapy and the benefits of multidisciplinary disease management programs. With guideline recommendations, we hope that the management of heart failure can be improved in our society.
The effects of insulin and glucose on growth and expression of mar regulon in E. coli

Amac: Konak faktorlerinin bakterilerin virulans, antibiyotik duyarliligi ve ureme gibi ozelliklerini etkiledigi bilinmektedir. Bu calismada insan insulin ve glukozun E. coli SPC105 susunun uremesi ve marregulonunun ( marA , marR , ompF , acrA , acrB ve tolC genlerini iceren) ekspresyonu uzerine etkisinin arastirilmasi hedeflenmistir. Gerec ve Yontemler: E. coli SPC105 triptik soy buyyonda (TSB-kontrol) ve 20 µU/mLinsulin, 200 µU/mLinsulin, %0,1 glukoz ve 200 µU/mLinsulin + %0,1 glukoz iceren TSB’de uretilmistir. Uremeler turbidimetrik yontem ile belirlenmistir. Gen ekspresyonu duzeyleri kantitatifpolimeraz zincir reaksiyonu (qPCR) ile arastirilmistir. Istatistiksel analizlerde Tukey’in post hoc-testi kullanilmistir. Bulgular: Absorbans sonuclarina gore %0,1 glukoz ve 200 µU/mLinsulin + %0,1 glukoz iceren besiyerleri uremeyi anlamli duzeyde dusurmustur. acrA geninin ekspresyon seviyesinin 200µU/mL insulin iceren besiyerinde dustugu gorulmustur. marR ve marA ’nin ekspresyonlari da benzer sekilde 200 µU/mLinsulin, %0,1 glukoz ve 200 µU/mLinsulin + %0,1 glukoz iceren TSB’de azalmistir. marA , marR , acrA ekspresyonlarindaki azalis istatistiksel olarak anlamli bulunmustur (p<0.05). Sonuc: Bu calismanin sonuclari bir kez daha gostermistir ki, konak faktorleri bir bakterinin uremesi uzerine oldugu kadar antibiyotik direnci ile iliskili farkli genlerinde ekspresyonu uzerinde etkili olabilmektedir.
Style Transfer via Zero-Shot Monolingual Neural Machine Translation

Text style transfer is the task of altering stylistic features of a text while preserving its meaning and fluency. It can be viewed as a sequence-to-sequence transformation task, but the scarcity of directly annotated parallel data makes it unfeasible for most settings. We propose an approach to style transfer that builds on the idea of zero-shot machine translation. It performs style transfer within a neural machine translation model, without requiring any parallel style-adapted texts, relying instead only on regular language-parallel data. The method is applicable to multiple languages within a single model. We outline the method, describe our experiments with it, and, finally, present a thorough automatic and manual evaluation of the approach in comparison to a baseline and independently, showing that our zero-shot model outperforms the supervised baseline on several aspects according to human judgments, and is reliable for a number of style transfer aspects.
Improving the lookup performance of peer-to-peer storage via proxy-based hierarchy chord

The structured overlay networks based on DHT provide a decentralized, self-organizing substrate for building the large distributed systems such as file sharing and data storage. However, in most of these systems, many problems still remain to be solved regarding system scalability, network proximity and so on. In this paper, we present a novel routing protocol called PBHC. By combining hierarchical DHT algorithm with a data proximity mechanism PBHC minimizes the intracluster access traffic and boosts the local access ratio in heterogeneous networks environment. The simulation results show PBHC can significantly improve the routing performance and scalability of the P2P storage system.
Online learning algorithm of neural network decoupler based on cross- correlation function

Online learning algorithm of Neural Network Decoupler, which based on MIMO cross-correlation function, is proposed on the frame of distributed decoupling system. The algorithm defines a set of cross-correlation function of the MIMO acted as the target function of neural decoupler. The mixing genetic algorithm is adopted to train neural decoupler online. The algorithm has been evaluated through numerical simulations of an industrial object.
ISOLATION IDENTIFICATION AND PATHOTYPING OF NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUSES FORM NATURALLY INFECTED CHICKENS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN REGION

Iraq has been endemic for Newcastle disease virus (NDV) with natural infection causing significant losses in the poultry industry since 1968. This study was designed to identify a natural infection of NDV occurred in three governorate in the northern part of Iraq (Erbil, Sulymaniyah and Duhok) among chicken flocks and estimate its virulence by the mean death times(MDT) and intra-cerebral pathogenicity index (ICPI). Ninety six flocks with high mortality were examined for post mortem lesions and the samples collected from suspected ND chicken flocks, either sick or dead showed characteristic clinical findings and show positive rapid test for NDV antigen. The collected samples were pooled, homogenized and centrifuged then the virus propagted in embryonated chicken eggs was confirmed by real time RT-PCR, hemagglutination (HA) test and hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test using anti-NDV hyper-immune serum. The results were isolation 9(12%) out of 96 samples where NDV was positive clinicaly. The MDT and ICPI revealed that the isolates were compatible to mesogenic (1/9) and velogenic (5/9) types. These results demonstrated that the NDV strains were virulent for chickens and the vaccination might not give enough protection.
Cyber-physical systems as sociotechnical systems: a view towards human–technology interaction

Abstract The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual formulation of a cyber-physical system (CPS) as a sociotechnical system (STS). CPS has become a major area for research and development; however, for successful integration with society, the sociotechnical dimension of CPS should be addressed. Examining basic issues will provide a strong foundation for CPS technologies along with providing stakeholder acceptance and engagement for wellbeing of society. While CPS can be considered as subsets of STS, they are not merely an application of STS principles. Rather, as this article demonstrates, considerations of fundamental principles involve a careful scrutiny of basic assumptions. This paper examines the basic assumptions involved in STS based on insights derived from a multitude of fields ranging from human–computer interaction, risk management, history of technology, philosophy of technology, science and technology studies and systems engineering. Further, based on sociotechnical models from three different fields, and in light of the basic assumptions of STS, a conceptual model of CPS is presented. This model is devised with a view towards human–technology interaction in CPS. It consists of technology and societal elements as hybrid entities available at several levels of functional abstraction. Using already existing example of CPS projects, the applicability of the proposed conceptual model is demonstrated. The paper concludes with a discussion of three main future challenges for human–technology interaction in CPS.
Ethernet protocol identification algorithm based on pattern matching

Protocol identification is the key technology in the field of network security and countermeasure.In this paper,the essentialities of protocol identification is present,the characters of Ethernet protocol are analyzed,the system model is built,according to the characters of Ethernet protocol,a new protocol identification algorithm(NEWMATCH) based on pattern matching is proposed,the performance of the algorithm is analyzed.The results which comparing the algorithm with the traditional pattern matching algorithms(such as BF,KMP and BM) indicate the applicability for the Ethernet protocol identification.
Disabled user’s preference investigation of Konya Karatay City Park according to the universal design criteria (UDC)

Received: 26 March 2019 Revised received: 11 April 2019 Accepted: 22 April 2019 The importance of concepts such as universal design, accessibility, and unimpeded life is increasing as the number of disabled people within the society increases over the years and as the effects of being disabled become more prominent. As these concepts have become widespread throughout the world, architects and designers have also focused on projects that facilitate the life of individuals with disabilities in their designs, and they have created designs from the inside of life by incorporating the rapid development of technology into the process. The universal design aims to eliminate the obstacles faced by individuals with basic disabilities and to ensure the use of designs together with non-disabled individuals. The universal design criteria revealed in this direction are the main factors that make up the study subject. Within the scope of the study, determination of the suitability of Konya Karatay City Park for the access by disabled users and the concept of unimpeded life (Universal Design) was aimed. Social areas, transportation systems, and recreation areas, which provide services to users within the park, were examined onsite according to their functions by quantifying them in the context of the universal design criteria. As a result of the study, it was determined that the park did not meet the universal design criteria (UDC) in terms of transportation and circulation; also, the uses of social and recreation areas were observed not to comply with the universal design criteria. According to the disabled user’s preferences, solutions related to these subjects were proposed.
A novel real-time method for moving vehicle detection

As one major part of the Internet of Things, the perception layer plays an important role in cognizing, sensing and controlling the physical environment. It is a fundamental task to design a compatible and extensible IoT perception layer network framework, which could ensure reliability of IoT perception layer. In this paper, based on thorough investigation on perception layer network topology, a new framework of perception layer based on convergence and cooperation is presented. The heterogeneity of network topology in perception layer based on scenarios and applications is analyzed thoroughly. Then a cooperative and converged framework and one information security framework as example are carefully described, which shows that the proposed framework could simplify the perception layer design in heterogeneous networks and facilitate application functionality extension. Finally, some conclusion and future work is presented.