Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Info rmation Fit-to-Task Visual App eal Sim ilarit y Exp erti se Likeabilit y Perce ived Usefulness Perce ived Enjoyment Parasocial Interaction Urg e to Buy Impu lsively

Social commerce, a recent branch of e-commerce, has made the experience of consumers on social commerce platform (SCP) different from other contexts, as the consumers have social interactions with each other. Growing evidence also shows that consumers on these platforms are prone to impulse buying behavior owing to the social interactions. However, existing research on online impulse buying was limited when illustrating the behavior of consumers on SCPs as social relationship constructs were not included. New theoretical developments are needed in regard to fill the research gap. In this research, parasocial interaction (PSI) theory is introduced in this research to examine the influence of social relationship factors on the formation of impulse buying behavior. An empirical research has been conducted mpulse buying tendency on Mogujie (www.mogujie.com), one of the most popular image-sharing SCPs in China. Results indicate that PSI exerts an impact on impulse buying tendency, the social-relevant features of the SCP determine PSI, and perceived usefulness and PSI both significantly affect perceived enjoyment. In addition, consumers’ perceived enjoyment and impulse buying tendencies significantly affect their urge to buy impulsively. The implications, limitations, and discussions are provided. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Structural characterization and ecological roles of a novel exopolysaccharide from the deep-sea psychrotolerant bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp . SM 9913

Received 10 October 2006 Revised 19 December 2006 Accepted 24 January 2007 Pseudoalteromonas sp. SM9913 is a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from deep-sea sediment. The structural characterization and ecological roles of the exopolysaccharide (EPS) secreted by this strain were studied in this work. The yield of the EPS increased as the culture temperature decreased in the range 30–10 6C, and it reached 5.25 g l (dry weight) under optimal growth conditions (15 6C, 52 h). EPS fraction was purified and its structure was identified by the combination of NMR spectra, high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) analysis and methylation analysis. The ratio of the sugar units, the acetyl group and the ethoxyl group was close to 4 : 5 : 1. The major sugar unit of the EPS was 6-linked glucose (61.8 %); other sugar units present included terminal arabinofuranosyl (11.0 %) and glucopyranosyl (11.2 %) residues and a small amount of other sugar derivatives. Its structure was different from EPSs reported for other marine bacteria. Besides the structural elucidation of the EPS, its ecological roles were studied. This EPS could enhance the stability of the cold-adapted protease MCP-01 secreted by the same strain through preventing its autolysis. It could bind many metal ions, including Fe, Zn, Cu, Co. It was also a very good flocculating agent and could conglomerate colloidal and suspended particles. These results indicated that the EPS secreted by strain SM9913 might help this strain enrich the proteinaceous particles and the trace metals in the deep-sea environment, stabilize the secreted cold-adapted proteases and avoid its diffusion. This is believed to be the first report on the structure of the EPS secreted by a deep-sea psychrotolerant bacterium and its ecological roles. According to these results and other studies, a schematic diagram of the lifestyle of the deep-sea psychrotolerant strain SM9913 is suggested.
Resistance in Patients With Impaired Fasting Glucose , Hypertension , and Mixed Dyslipidemia Effects of Manidipine Plus Rosuvastatin Versus Olmesartan Plus Rosuvastatin on Markers of Insulin

Aim: To compare the effect of manidipine 20 mg plus rosuvastatin 10 mg versus olmesartan 20 mg plus rosuvastatin 10 mg on markers of insulin resistance in patients with mixed dyslipidemia, hypertension, and impaired fasting glucose (IFG). Methods: This study had a prospective, randomized, open-label, blinded endpoint (PROBE) design. A total of 40 patients with IFG, mixed dyslipidemia, and stage 1 hypertension were included. Following dietary intervention, patients were randomly allocated to rosuvastatin (10 mg/d) plus olmesartan (20 mg/d) or manidipine (20 mg/d). The primary end point was the between-group difference in changes in the Homeostasis Model Assessment Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) index following 3 months of treatment. Secondary end points included changes in fasting plasma glucose (FPG), fasting insulin levels, and glucosylated hemoglobin. Results: At the end of the 3-month treatment period, a significant increase in HOMA-IR index by 14% (from 2.4 [0.5-7.9] to 2.7 [0.5-5.2], P 1⁄4 .02 versus baseline) was seen in the olmesartan plus rosuvastatin group. On the contrary, no significant change in HOMA-IR index was observed in the manidipine plus rosuvastatin group (1.7 [0.5-5.2] to 1.7 [0.8-6.0], P 1⁄4 NS versus baseline, P 1⁄4 .04 versus olmesartan plus rosuvastatin group). An increase in fasting insulin levels was observed in the olmesartan plus rosuvastatin group (þ8%, from 10.1 [2.0-29.6] to 10.9 [2.0-19.1] mU/mL, P < .05 versus baseline), while no significant change was seen in the manidipine plus rosuvastatin group (þ3%, from 7.3 [2.0-17.6] to 7.5 [1.9-15.6] mU/mL, P1⁄4NS versus baseline, P1⁄4 .02 versus olmesartan plus rosuvastatin group). Fasting plasma glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin did not change significantly in any group. Conclusion: Manidipine seems to ameliorate the possible statin-associated increase in insulin resistance as compared with olmesartan in patients with IFG, hypertension, and mixed dyslipidemia.
Exploiting Big Data for Improving Healthcare Services

Healthcare systems produce an enormous amount of data which can be effectively used to reduce the cost of healthcare while improving quality, and supporting prevention and personalization. This paper begins with an analysis of the basic characteristics of big data in medicine and the development of open data thinking. It goes on to discuss the potential of big data to improve the efficiency and efficacy of personal care while reducing health costs. During the study carried out at ASL Bari, a model for the continuous monitoring of health data was used and some experimental results are presented. Overall, the results provide useful insights into reducing cost and increasing the effectiveness and efficacy of health services. The experience demonstrated the usefulness of big data and data analytics techniques in health care and highlighted some directions for further research.
Solid Carbon Dioxide in Regions of Low-Mass Star Formation

We present high-resolution (R ~ 1500-2000) spectra of the 4.27 μm asymmetric stretching feature of solid CO2 in eight lines of sight observed with the Short Wavelength Spectrometer of the Infrared Space Observatory. Two of the sources are field stars located behind the Taurus molecular cloud; the others are young stellar objects (YSOs) of predominantly low-to-intermediate mass. We find a significant source-to-source variation in the solid CO2/H2O abundance ratio in our sample: two lines of sight, Elias 18 and RAFGL 989, have CO2 abundances of ~ 34%-37%, considerably higher than in other lines of sight studied to date. In agreement with a previous study of Elias 16, we confirm a substantial (~20%) abundance of solid CO2 relative to H2O in the quiescent intracloud medium. We compare the CO2 profiles with laboratory spectra of interstellar ice analogs from the Leiden Observatory Laboratory database. Results show that the 4.27 μm profiles toward field stars and embedded low-mass objects are remarkably similar to each other and seem to originate mostly in cold H2O-rich ice. In two higher mass YSOs (RAFGL 989 and S255 IRS1), the profiles are clearly different, and at least the latter source shows signs of thermal processing.
The Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ Use and Preferences of Language Learning Strategies and Their Meta-Knowledge and Tasks of Pragmatic Competence

The present study investigated the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ use and preferences of language learning strategies and their meta-knowledge and the tasks of pragmatic competence. Quick Oxford Placement Test, version 2 (2004) was administered and 120 upper-intermediate EFL university students majoring in English translation and TEFL were recruited from the available branches of the Islamic Azad University, Fars province. Likewise, a questionnaire entitled Iranian EFL learners’ meta-knowledge and pragmatic tasks (2016) was used to explore EFL learners’ meta-knowledge and tasks of pragmatic competence and the mean score was calculated. Then, Oxford Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (1990) was used to analyze EFL learners’ use and preferences of language learning strategies and the mean score was calculated. Also, to examine any possible relationship between EFL learners’ use and preferences of language learning strategies and their meta-knowledge and pragmatic tasks, some correlations were run. The results of data analyses showed that Iranian EFL learners were moderate in meta-knowledge and tasks of pragmatic competence and in their use of language learning strategies in general. More detailed analyses of the data ranked the order of the applications of the strategies as: social strategies, meta-cognitive strategies, cognitive strategies, memory strategies, compensation strategies and affective strategies from the most to the least frequent strategies applied by the participants of the study. There was a significant medium positive relationship between meta-knowledge and tasks of pragmatic competence and meta-cognitive strategy. However, there were slight but significant positive relationships between meta-knowledge and tasks of pragmatic competence and compensation and affective strategies and no relationships between meta-knowledge and tasks of pragmatic competence and social, affective and compensation strategies.
“Linear” fully modified OLS estimation of cointegrating polynomial regressions

A large part of the empirical environmental Kuznets curve literature uses cointegrating regressions involving a unit root process and its powers as regressors. In this literature the unit root process and its powers are, incorrectly, all treated as integrated processes and modified least squares estimation methods for linear cointegrating regressions are routinely employed. We show that this approach to estimation leads for the Fully Modified OLS estimator surprisingly to the same limiting distribution as obtained for the version of the Fully Modified OLS estimator adapted to the cointegrating polynomial regression setting of Wagner and Hong (2016). JEL Classification: C13, C32, Q20
NOVAK ZUBER AND THE DRIFT FLUX MODEL

I first heard of Novak Zuber when I was working on my MS at MIT during 1957–1959 and he was working on publishing the results of his Ph.D. thesis at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I am unsure if I met him at that time. If I did, it was only for a brief handshake, but I remember that his 1958 ASME paper (Zuber, 1958) “The Stability of Boiling Heat Transfer” created quite a stir and I was aware of it. I also learned of some related reports he had written for the Atomic Energy Commission (Zuber and Tribus, 1958; Zuber, 1959). In 1961 I had moved to England, but I was in Boulder, Colorado, to present a paper (Wallis, 1961a) at the ASME International Heat Transfer Conference being held there. Novak presented his work (Zuber et al., 1961) on the hydrodynamics of pool boiling critical heat flux, in which he had derived the empirical result of Kutateladze (1951) using an idealized two-fluid model. There was quite a controversy over his paper and I stood up to defend him. I wrote a comment on his paper (Wallis, 1961c), deducing some of his results by alternative methods that were explained more fully in a later publication (Wallis, 1962b). Novak’s supervisor at UCLA, Myron Tribus, was also there. We were talking and I learned that Myron was going to Dartmouth to be the Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering. He had creative ideas about developing the curriculum along the lines of engineering science that Boelter had pioneered at UCLA and that had already been partially implemented at Dartmouth. His ideas of teaching the basics of engineering methods in a unified way, without introducing them separately in individual disciplines, appealed to me very much. I had thought that it was unnecessary to teach very similar mathematical approaches in courses with separate labels such as electrical, mechanical, fluid dynamics, etc. He also intended to expand the curriculum to include Ph.D. and Doctor of Engineering degree programs. He would give priority to new faculty who would develop these ideas. Another motive that Myron declared in suggesting that I come to Dartmouth, was to bring me closer to Novak, so that we could work together to develop a sound theoretical
Coral-irradiation in mice γ Parp-2 is required to maintain hematopoiesis following sublethal

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Does It Really Take a Whole Village To Raise a Child? Mixing Metaphor and Meaning in the Educational Partnerships Program.

In the course of evaluating the Educational Partnerships Program of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, researchers often heard the aphorism "It takes a whole village to raise a child. " The village image appeared a powerful metaphor for program participants. This paper develops the hypothesis that the language and metaphors used by partners either facilitates or impedes the development, impact, and institutionalization of partnerships, depending on how accurately the language fits what actually occurs in the partnership. Following an introductory program description, the second section of the report summarizes study findings, emphasizing types of partnerships that achieved greatest success. The third section affirms that a good fit between metaphor and program acti,ities, structures, and goals is associated with successful partnerships. Whether or not it takes the whole village depends on what is meant by raising the child. Productive workers can be prepared by a few dedicated community members, but a caring and nurturing environment may indeed require the whole village. One table and one figure illustrate the discussion. (Contains 15 references.) (SLD) ******************************************A**w************************* * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. * ***********************************************************************
Resilience among Students from the Majority and Minority Group: The Israeli Case

The current study examined levels of individual, community and national resilience as well as resilience protective and suppressing factors among Israeli Jewish (majority group) and Israeli Arab (minority group) students. Results indicated that Israeli Jewish students reported higher levels of individual, community and national resilience scale scores compared with Israeli Arab students. However, when resilience was measured as strength to vulnerability ratio, only individual resilience was significant. Results indicated a similar pattern of association between resilience protective and suppressive factors and measures of resilience. In addition, and as expected, Israeli Jewish students reported higher levels of sense of coherence, and reported higher quality of life. Israeli Arab students reported higher levels of distress symptoms and a higher level of exposure to terror. However, Israeli Jews reported a higher sense of danger compared with Israeli Arabs.
Exact Method for Coupled Non-linear State-space Simulation and its Application to a Flexible Multibody Wind Turbine Aeroelastic Code

During the last few decades engineers have been designing wind turbines of increasing size seeking lower values of cost of energy (CoE). A great amount of research has been done recently seeking alleviation of aerodynamic loads on the rotor and support structure and thus reducing material costs and CoE. At the same time, Finite Element Method (FEM) tools have been introduced more and more as part of the design process for structures, drive system and mechanisms of these machines. Coupling FE models with in-house modelling tools is a powerful means to enhance designs despite risking computation trouble. The present work explains a computation method to couple a comprehensive rotor aerodynamic model, including inflow and loads unsteadiness and dynamic stall, to a finite element based Multibody model of a wind turbine.
Molecular Identification of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) and Quantitative Analysis of COI gene in South -Indian species.

The city of Greater Hyderabad has a population of 8 million in the area of 172 Sq. Km. The study area covers five circles and 150 wards, each ward having a typical slum area. The study area is endemic to Dengue, Chikungunya and Urban Malaria. A total of 381 dengue cases were reported during the year 2012 and there might have been many more unreported. The data available is collected from both public and private hospitals and information is retrieved from the medical and health authorities of Greater Hyderabad. Malaria is another vector borne diseases spread by the mosquitoes which is on the upswing with 439 cases reported in the year 2012. In our study it is observed that the major vector for dengue is Aedes albopictus.
Readers, Players, and Watchers: Short and Long-term Vocabulary Retention through Digital Video Games

The study investigated short- and long-term vocabulary retention through a digital video game. Participants were 241 male students (age 12–18) randomly assigned to three treatments, namely, Readers who learned vocabulary through intensive reading, Players who learned vocabulary through playing a digital video game, and Watchers who learned by watching two classmates play the digital video game. Twenty one words (simple and compound nouns) were pretested and then followed by the interventions which lasted for five weeks. The same pretest was posttested twice: As a one month and a three months delayed posttest after the study to measure short- and long-term vocabulary retention respectively. Results indicated that the Players and Watchers outperformed the Readers in terms of both short- and long-term vocabulary retention. The Readers were the only group to forget a significant number of words on the three-months delayed posttest. Only the Players’ treatment was equally effective for learning both simple and compound nouns. The Players showed the highest mean score on both posttests and the least drop from the short- to long-term posttest. It is concluded that digital video games can help students retain vocabulary over a longer time period.
Table 1 . Overview of District-Wide and Individual School Strategies Implemented in Kearney Public Schools ( KPS ) between 2006 and 2012

Background: Schools play a role in addressing childhood obesity by implementing healthy eating and physical activity strategies. The primary aim of this case study was to describe prevalence of overweight and obesity among elementary school students in a rural Mid-western community between 2006 and 2012. The secondary aim was to use a novel approach called ‘‘population dose’’ to retrospectively evaluate the impact dose of each strategy implemented and its estimated potential population level impact on changes in overweight and obesity. Methods: Weight and height were directly measured annually beginning in January 2006 to assess weight status, using BMI (kg/ m), for all kindergarten to fifth-grade students (N& 2400 per year). Multiple evidence-based strategies were implemented in nine schools to increase physical activity and healthy eating behaviors. BMI reporting and revised school meal programs were implemented districtwide. Comprehensive school physical activity programs, school food environment, and supportive/promotional strategies were implemented at individual schools. Results: The absolute change in prevalence of obesity (BMI ‡95th percentile) decreased from 16.4% to 13.9%, indicating a 15.2% relative change in prevalence of obesity in 6 years. There was an inverse relationship between the number of strategies implemented and prevalence of overweight and obesity over time. Conclusions: District and school-level approaches have the potential to impact childhood obesity. Schools can successfully implement strategies to address overweight and obesity, but the extent of implementation between schools may vary. Population dose analysis can be used to estimate impact of clusters of strategies to address overweight/obesity.
The Beneficial Effects of Non-received Choice: A Study on Intrinsic Motivation in Biology Education

Previous research has found conflicting evidence in studies where students participate in the selection of their course topics in educational settings. Katz and Assor, for example, have argued that the increase in student motivation is probably not due to the mere act of choosing, but to the value of the options with respect to personal interest. The aim of our study was to investigate the impact of choice on aspects of motivation during biology lessons. Our sample consisted of five classes with 118 children of whom 63% were female. Their average age was 10.4 years (SD=0.6). One group of students was asked to select one topic out of four in a majority vote during a biology class, while a control group was simply assigned the same topic. Results: Students who chose their topic reported a higher level of intrinsic motivation than students who were not given the option. A surprising result was that the students in the voting group who did not receive their preferred choice reported the same level of motivation as those who did.