Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Fashion Conscious Mall Shopper: An Exploratory Study

In the early 1990s, half of all retail sales were mall transactions (Feinberg and Meoli 1991). Trends now indicate that malls are not effectively meeting the varied needs of shoppers and mall shopping is declining (Nichols, Li, Kranendonk and Roslow 2002). Fewer people are going to the mall, they are going less often, and they are spending less time there (Berry 1996; Nichols et al. 2002). The decline in mall patronage can be attributed to several factors. Mall shoppers find most malls look alike with malls basically offering the same services (Wakefield and Baker 1998) and that mall shoppers do not find shopping an enjoyable (Berry 1996; Wakefield and Baker 1998), comfortable or safe activity (Underwood 1994). Additionally, the busy lifestyle of shoppers and (Balabanis and Vassileiou 1999; Groover 2006; Wakefield and Baker 1998) and the advancements made by e-tailers to accommodate the Internet savvy shopper has contributed to the decline (Groover 2006). Finally, concerns about the economy and job security have alerted shoppers to be more prudent with their spending (ICSC 2006).
Calpain 10 Gene Polymorphism and Its Association in Cardiomyopathy and Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is genetically defined as a complex disease caused by the interaction of environment and genes, which are located in different regions from the human genome. Cardiomyopathy, a prominent cardiovascular complication, has been recognized as a micro vascular disease that may lead to heart failure. Calpain 10 (CAPN10) is a susceptibility gene for the disease, located in 2q37.3. Calpains are non-lysosomal calcium dependent cysteine proteases that participate in insulin secretion and action. Polymorphisms in the calpain- 10 gene have been shown to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiomyopathy. In this research, it has been postulated that SNP- 19 of CAPN10 gene was associated with T2DM and cardiomyopathy. It has been analyzed 30 diabetic patients, 20 cardiomyopathy patients and 10 healthy controls. CAPN10 SNP-19 (Insertion/deletion) polymorphism genotyping was done by PCR. The results showed association of SNP19 with T2DM (χ 2 = 13.19 & p = 0.001) and cardiomyopathy (χ 2 = 5.00 & p = 0.029). In conclusion, results from the present study indicate a significant association of SNP19 in CAPN10 gene to T2DM and cardiomyopathy.
Forecasting Landslide Generated Tsunamis: a Review

When earthquakes occur, suddenly bottom deformations will induce water response that is almost instantaneous. Then, bottom displacements affect wide areas and generate transient waves (tsunamis) usually characterized by a relatively small heightwith respect to their length, i.e. by a small steepness. Indeed, just after the earthquake, the water free surface mimics the final bottom deformations, that can be of the order of some meters, and small amplitude long waves start to propagate resulting in a potential transoceanic devastation (Synolakis et al., 2002). When either subaerial or submerged landslides occur, thedisplacementswill takeplace onboth larger temporal-, and smaller spatial-scale. The deformations are of the order of hundreds of meters and the generated waves are quite different from those induced by submarine earthquakes. Hence, landslide tsunamis tend to be a local phenomenon, although extreme. Since two centuries ago, submarine failures were related to “sea waves without earthquake” when great waves were observed without any account of earthquakes (e.g. Mallet & Mallet, 1858; Milne, 1898; Montessus de Ballore, 1907). In an illuminating reasoning Mallet & Mallet (1858) argued that “great underwater slippage takes place [. ] the effect upon the surface of the sea is at the same moment to originate a positive and a negative wave. [. ] The magnitude of the wave raised is dependent upon that of the mass of solid material that has suddenly changed its place, upon the depth of water in which the slippage has occurred, upon the rapidity of the transposition, and in minor degree upon the form and material of the portion of the bank that has slipped. ” One of the more meaningful event occurred at Lituya Bay (Alaska, July 9, 1958), when a subaerial landslide triggered by an earthquake entered the water at the Gilbert Inlet and generated an impulse wave (Miller, 1960). The induced run-up was the highest known: the water rose up to 524m at the slope in front of the landslide, then thewaves propagated into the Bay and eventually radiated offshore through the Bay inlet with minimum effects outside the Bay itself. Another example, related to submarine failures, is the well documented tsunami generated by an underwater slump triggered by a magnitude 7 earthquake on July 17, 1998 close to the Sissano Lagoon, Sandaun Province, Papua NewGuinea (see Synolakis et al., 2002). The tsunami struck about 30 km wide area, i.e. rather small, by inducing a maximum run-up of about 15 m and killing over 2100 people. Landslide generated impulse waves can occur not only at the sea boundaries, but also in enclosed basins (i.e. reservoirs and lakes). The event that took place at the Vajont Valley (Italy) on October 9, 1963 is perhaps the more sorrowful one. A subaerial landslide of about 6
UFO (Unidentified Full Objects) Sighted in The Cornea: Can We Make The Diagnosis By Means of in vivo Confocal Microscopy?

In vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) is a powerful diagnostic technique that provides minimally invasive, high resolution, steady-state assessment of the corneal cellular structure [1]. Rapid scanning is used to recreate a full field of view and to get a ‘‘real time’’ viewing [2] Because of its ability to analyze living tissue at cellular levels, IVCM represents a valid tool for clinical diagnosis and management of corneal diseases [3]. It may be useful in the areas of infective keratitis, corneal dystrophies, refractive surgery, and contact lens wear, where it allows for differential diagnosis and detection of subtle short and longterm changes [2]. In our study, we evaluate the efficacy of IVCM in the diagnosis of corneal disease.
Structural Analysis and Strengthening of the National Youth Foundation Building in Igoumenitsa, Greece

The current paper presents a structural assessment and proposals for retrofit of the National Youth Foundation Building, an existing reinforced concrete (RC) building in the city of Igoumenitsa, Greece. The building is scheduled to be renovated in order to create a Municipal Cultural Center. The bearing capacity and structural integrity have been investigated in relation to the provisions and requirements of the Greek Retrofitting Code (KAN.EPE.) and European Standards (Eurocodes). The capacity of the existing concrete structure that makes up the two central buildings in the complex (buildings II and IV) has been evaluated both in its present form and after including several proposed architectural interventions. The structural system consists of spatial frames of columns and beams that have been simulated using beam elements. Some RC elements of the buildings have been strengthened in the past by means of concrete jacketing and have had cracks sealed with epoxy injections. Static-nonlinear analysis (Pushover) has been used to assess the seismic performance of the two structures with regard to performance level B1 from KAN.EPE. Retrofitting scenarios are proposed for the two buildings, including type Λ steel bracings and placement of concrete shear walls in the transverse direction in order to achieve the design-specification deformation in each applicable situation, improve the seismic performance, and reduce the number of interventions required. Keywords—Earthquake resistance, pushover analysis, reinforced concrete, retrofit, strengthening.
Contaminant Diffusion along uniform flow velocity with pulse type input sources in finite porous medium

Solute transport inside pore system occurs due to advection and diffusion which are the important mechanisms of contaminant transport in porous medium. Analytical solutions of one-dimensional advection-diffusion equation (the coefficient of second order space derivative being temporally dependent) are obtained in a finite domain for two sets of pulse type input boundary conditions. Initially the domain is not solute free. It is supposed uniformly distributed at the initial stage. The Laplace transform technique is used with the help of new space and time variables. The solutions are graphically illustrated and compared solute distribution for finite and semi-infinite domain.
DUAL-BAND LOW PROFILE DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA WITH HIGH IMPEDANCE SURFACE REFLECTOR

A compact dual-band high impedance surface (HIS) electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure is designed as a re∞ector for a dual-band coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed planar monopole antenna. The re∞ector comprises an array of metal square patches which are etched square ring slots. Details of the HIS structure and dual re∞ection phase frequency bands characteristics are presented and discussed. The simulated and measured results show that the combination of the HIS re∞ector and the antenna provides directional properties for both frequency bands. At the same time, compared to the antenna integrated with a metal re∞ector, the proflle of the proposed antenna is reduced by more than 60%; the radiation e-ciency is increased by 23% (simulated result); and the front-back ratio is increased by 17dB and 11dB at the two operating frequency bands, respectively.
Performance-Related Pay System: A Design Methodology

This paper identifies a new methodology to design a strategy-based performance-related pay (PRP) system. The proposed methodology is the result of an action research intervention in a leading manufacturing company. Its main value is the capability to encourage the pursuit of company strategy also at the lowest levels of the organisation. The methodology is correlated with a group of tools supporting the operationalization of each phase.
An Explicit Review on Quantitative Estimation of Candesartan Cilexetil Employing Various Analytical Techniques

Angiotensin II Receptor type 1 antagonists have been widely used in treatment of various disorders like hypertension, heart failure, myocardial infarction and diabetic nephropathy. Over the years, varied analytical methods were developed both in biological fluids as well as dosage forms in order to estimate their desired pharmacological activity. Candesartan being highly lipohpilic with variable oral bioavailability, its estimation in biological fluids is very critical for establishing its subsequent therapeutic efficacy. A few UV spectrophotometeric and volatmmetric techniques have been reported to estimate candesartan in bulk formulations. Additionally, capillary electrophoresis methods provided qualitative and quantitative estimation of candesartan with a few methods being systematically optimized using experimental designs. Ultimately, an overview of different HPLC and LC-MS/MS methods explained the importance of the methods while estimating candesartan in various biological fluids (e.g. plasma, urine, etc.) as well as other studies like, stability studies. This review provides a bird’s eye-view on the various analytical techniques employed for determination of candesartan in both in vitro and in vivo conditions.
Improved Blood Glucose-Insulin Monitoring with Dual-Layer Predictive Control Design

In response to widely used wearable medical devices equipped with a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and insulin pump, the advanced control methods are still demanding to get the full benefit of these devices. Unlike costly clinical trials, implementing effective insulin-glucose control strategies can provide significant contributions to the patients suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes. This study deals with a key role of twolayer insulin-glucose regulator based on model-predictive-control (MPC) scheme so that the patient’s predicted glucose profile is in compliance with the insulin level injected through insulin pump automatically. It is achieved by iterative optimization algorithm which is called an integrated perturbation analysis and sequential quadratic programming (IPA-SQP) solver for handling uncertainties due to unexpected variations in glucose-insulin values and body’s characteristics. The feasibility evaluation of the discussed control approach is also studied by means of numerical simulations of two case scenarios via measured data. The obtained results are presented to verify the superior and reliable performance of the proposed control scheme with no negative impact on patient safety. Keywords—Blood glucose monitoring, insulin pump, optimization, predictive control, diabetes disease.
Elucidating the role of hyperfine interactions on organic magnetoresistance using deuterated aluminium tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)

Measurements of the effect of a magnetic field on the light output and current through an organic light-emitting diode made with deuterated aluminum tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) have shown that hyperfine coupling with protons is not the cause of the intrinsic organic magnetoresistance. We suggest that interactions with unpaired electrons in the device may be responsible.
Simulation of the electromagnetic wall response during Vertical Displacement Events (VDE) in ITER tokamak

The key basis for tokamak plasma disruption modeling is to understand how currents flow to the plasma facing surfaces during plasma disruption events. In ITER tokamak, the occurrence of a limited number of major disruptions will definitively damage the chamber with no possibility to restore the device. In the current exchange plasma-wall-plasma, according to the Helmholtz decomposition theorem, our surface current density in the conducting shell - the unknown of our problem - being a vector field twice continuously differentiable in 3D, has been splited into two components: an irrotational (curl-free) vector field and a solenoidal (divergence-free) vector field. Developing a weak formulation form and minimizing the correspondent energy functionals in a Finite Element approach, we have obtained the space and time distribution of the surface currents. We verified successfully our numerical simulation with an analytical solution with pure homogeneous Neumann B.C. and satisfying the necessary existence condition. By considering the iron core presence in JET tokamak, we have split the magnetization currents - the unknowns in some integral equations - into two components, the first producing a magnetic field in the iron region only and the second producing a magnetic field in the vacuum, obtaining thus a better evaluation of the influence of the iron core on the plasma equilibrium. To reduce the influence of the singularities appearing during the surface currents determination in multiply connected domains (L-shaped domains) we have used a conformal transformation method.
When Reality Monitoring Fails : The Role of Imagination in Stereotype Maintenance

Research on reality monitoring (the process by which people distinguish memories of real events from memories of imagined events) suggests that the occurrence of imagined events can inflate the perceived frequency of corresponding real events. When the availability of real events is assessed, reality monitoring apparently fails to exclude some events that were only imagined. We conducted two experiments to examine how such failures in reality monitoring can contribute to the maintenance of social stereotypes. When subjects imagined members of occupational groups in the initial experiment, they tended to incorporate stereotyped traits into their imaginations, with specific traits determined by the contexts being imagined. This result suggests that imagined events do correspond with stereotype-confirming real events. In the second experiment, subjects read sentences that presented traits (stereotyped and nonstereotyped) in association with occupations with uniform frequency. They also imagined members of each occupation in situations relevant to particular stereotypic traits, but without presentation of the traits. In subsequent judgments of presentation frequency, subjects overestimated their exposure to stereotypic occupation-trait combinations, which
The Effect of Hindbrain Orexin A Signaling on Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Physical Activity

Obesity (body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30) and overweight (BMI 25 - 29) are major health concerns in the United States, with the incidence of obesity affecting nearly one third of the US population. Previous work has emphasized the importance of neuropeptides (protein neurotransmitters) in the control of behaviors associated with ingestion and energy expenditure (EE). The orexins (orexin A and orexin B) are a family of neuropeptides important in promoting physical activity, and have also recently been shown to increase EE through effects on thermogenesis, specifically via the raphe pallidus (RPa) and dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus. The aim of this project is to explore brain-mediated defense against obesity via control of EE, specifically focusing on thermogenesis as regulated by hindbrain orexin A (OXA) signaling. While this pathway has been studied in a model using anesthetized rats, similar findings have not yet been duplicated in freely moving animals. Our overall hypothesis is that orexin signaling in the RPa modulates energy balance by increasing brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis, thereby increasing EE with limited effects on physical activity. Rats received fourth ventricle OXA injections and were monitored for 24 h for food intake, activity, and calorimetry data. Results show that OXA significantly increased heat production (kCal/h) and ambulatory activity in the first two h post-treatment (p = 0.0019, and p = 0.0174, respectively). While ambulatory activity did increase post-treatment, this difference is not believed to be large enough to fully explain the difference in EE during the first 1-2 h. Despite no significant difference in UCP1 expression (a marker of BAT thermogenesis), a lack of difference in food intake suggests that BAT (rather than diet-induced) thermogenesis is contributing to the difference in EE. BAT thermogenesis is an important component of EE in rodents, and has recently been confirmed to increase EE in humans as well. Therefore, data from this and ongoing studies may contribute to the development of orexin-based therapies to increase energy expenditure and reduce body weight in obese humans.
New Educational Challenges and Innovations: Students with Disability in Immersive Learning Environments

In today society, one of the most demanded challenges faced by the current educational system is the educational response to diversity in the various educational contexts. University lecturers are opening new lines of research focused on issues as social demand and current reality of produced new learning environments. The general aim of this study was to design learning environments using immersive virtual reality and evaluate improvements produced by this tool in relation to the difficulties show by the participants. From that point, an action plan was created to recreate school situations with a high degree of realism and interaction using IVRSystem. In this way, we want to obtain answers according to the dysfunctions of educational system to work with these students. This was done by a mixed design. On the one hand, a quasi-experimental methodology was used with a control group and an experimental group. On the other hand, direct and observation and applicative methodology made possible the development of educational intervention in immersive learning environments. The results obtained throughout these years have given a response to the initial problem-question raised: Can immersive virtual learning environments serve as a support tool for working disabilities of students, which have a visual learning style, such as students with autism spectrum disorders?
A Census of Fishes and Everything They Eat: How the Census of Marine Life Advanced Fisheries Science

ABSTRACT The Census of Marine Life was a 10-year, international research effort to explore poorly known ocean habitats and conduct large-scale experimentation with new technology. The goal of Census 2010 in its mission statement was to describe what did live in the oceans, what does live in the oceans, and what will live in the ocean. Many of the findings and techniques from census research may prove valuable in making a transition, which many governments have publicly endorsed, from single-species fisheries management to more holistic ecosystem management. Census researchers sampled continental margins, mid-Atlantic ridges, ocean floor vents and seeps, and abyssal plains and polar seas and organized massive amounts of past and new information in a public online database called the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (www.iobis.org). The census described and categorized seamount biology worldwide for its vulnerability to fishing, advanced large-scale animal tracking with acoustic arrays and satellite a.
Characterization of Orc6 function following pre-replicative complex assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Pre-replicative complex (pre-RC) components the origin recognition complex (ORC), Cdc6, and Cdt1, play key roles in the recruitment, and loading of the replicative helicase, the minichromosome maintenance complex (Mcm2-7), onto DNA to license origins for replication. Until recently, the prevailing model for pre-RC assembly predicted that once MCMs are loaded at origins, ORC, Cdc6, and Cdt1 are dispensible for replication. Contrary to this model, previous work has shown that Orc6 is required following origin licensing, for the continued association of the MCM complex in late G1 phase. In this study, a similar role in pre-RC maintenance has been demonstrated for Cdc6, and Cdt1. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis has shown that late G1 phase depletion of either Cdc6, or Cdt1 leads to the destabilization of MCMs from origins, although this destabilization is more pronounced for Cdc6 depletion than for Cdt1. Furthermore, the resynthesis of Cdc6 following its depletion, allows for the reassembly of pre-RCs in late G1 phase, and restores competence for DNA replication. In this study, a potential role for Orc6 in mitosis/cytokinesis in budding yeast has also been characterized, as research with both Drosophila and human cell lines has pointed to a role for Orc6 in these processes. Deleting HOF1 and CYK3 (two proteins involved in cytokinesis in budding yeast) leads to a synthetic lethal phenotype, suggesting that the resulting gene products function in redundant cytokinetic pathways. Indeed, Hof1 has been shown to be primarily involved in actin ring contraction, while Cyk3 functions in septum formation, both pathways of which are important for budding yeast cytokinesis. Interestingly, previous work has identified an Orc6-Hof1 interaction in budding yeast. In this study, it has been demonstrated that following Orc6 depletion in a GAL1-ORC6/Δcyk3 strain, fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis is consistent with a stronger cytokinetic defect phenotype than observed for Δcyk3 cells. Preliminary cell counts indicate that following Orc6 depletion, a higher percentage of GAL1-ORC6/Δcyk3 cells display misshapen mother bud necks than in
Geospatial multi-agent system for urban search and rescue

Geospatial Multi-agent Systems (GMAS) are composed of heterogeneous agents. These agents are distributed in space and time, and act with incomplete information in an uncertain environment. GMAS have many applications including disaster recovery, military command and control, avionics and traffic control. This paper presents an implementation prototype for GMAS used to solve Multi Agent Path Planning (MAPP) problem in Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) domain. The proposed architecture incorporates a combination of online algorithms with standardized languages and well known technologies (ex. SQL Server Spatial, KML, GoogleEarth and CORBA) for solving the problem. This paper focuses on geographic data manipulation, storage and visualization.