Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Divergent representational practices in advertising and consumer research: some thoughts on integration

This essay refers to working practices in advertising agency research as a source of reflection on representational practices in the wider worlds of consumer research. The representational conventions of “the essay” allow the paper’s exploratory theme to be developed through the use of several speculative but connected analogies. “Divergence” refers to the differing conventions of representation that obtain within advertising agencies. The counterpoint between artistic representation and empirical fact that was a foundation of Oscar Wilde’s writing is used to indicate an important aspect of this divergence. Finally, the hermeneutic circle of consumer research is offered as an integrating perspective. The essay thus explores divergence in the representational practices of advertising and consumer research in order to explore the preconditions for convergence.
Tennis Technologies: De-Skilling and Re-Skilling Players and the Implications for the Game

Among different kinds of performance-altering technologies in elite sport it is important to include those that dehumanize performance, improve safety and reduce harm, increase spectatorship and increase participation. This essay explores whether tennis racket technology de-skills and/or re-skills elite male tennis players and the implications of such technology for the game. I reflect critically on the empirical work of scientists and technologists that relates to performance-altering technologies and service dominance in elite male tennis. In particular, I also intend to explore the extent of effect the proposal to abolish the second service will have on the game. I conclude that allowing ‘one serve only’ would change the fundamental character of the game. Maintaining the status quo of two serves (potentially) per point retains the strategic and cognitive complexity of the game. It is imperative that technological and technical innovations do not compromise the nature of the good game.
Alternative Models of Price Behavior in Dyadic Negotiations: Market Prices, Reservation Prices, and Negotiator Aspirations

Abstract Three competing predictors of price are manipulated in a two-party distributive negotiation. These include prevailing market prices, negotiator reservation prices, and negotiator aspirations. We offer a cognitive interpretation of how each type of information is incorporated into the negotiator′s thought processes as an alternative cognitive reference point. In two studies varying the levels of these three factors, only reservation prices, not prevailing market prices or negotiator aspirations, account for significant variance in negotiated outcomes. Discussion is offered, suggesting that the negotiator as decision maker may experience a "dominant reference point" effect. When multiple pieces of relevant information are available, the negotiator may only be able to focus on one of them. Among the three predictors studied, the reservation price may be cognitively interpreted as the most absolute limit.
The Clinical Significance of PR, ER, NF-κB, and TNF-α in Breast Cancer

Objectives. To investigate the expression of estrogen (ER), progesterone receptors (PR), nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in human breast cancer (BC), and the correlation of these four parameters with clinicopathological features of BC. Methods and Results. We performed an immunohistochemical SABC method for the identification of ER, PR, NF-κB, and TNF-α expression in 112 patients with primary BC. The total positive expression rate of ER, PR, NF-κB, and TNF-α was 67%, 76%, 84%, and 94%, respectively. The expressions of ER and PR were correlated with tumor grade, TNM stage, and lymph node metastasis (P < 0.01, resp.), but not with age, tumor size, histological subtype, age at menarche, menopause status, number of pregnancies, number of deliveries, and family history of cancer. Expressions of ER and PR were both correlated with NF-κB and TNF-α expression (P < 0.05, resp.). Moreover, there was significant correlation between ER and PR (P < 0.0001) as well as between NF-κB and TNF-α expression (P < 0.05). Conclusion. PR and ER are highly expressed, with significant correlation with NF-κB and TNF-α expression in breast cancer. The important roles of ER and PR in invasion and metastasis of breast cancer are probably associated with NF-κB and TNF-α expression.
Pedestrian classification using principal eigenspaces

The proposed work describes a distribution-based approach for recognizing people in images. The methodology involves pattern classification using first and second order statistics in Principal Component Analysis (PCA) - based clustering framework. Unknown distributions of pedestrian and non-pedestrian patterns are approximated by learning the first and second order statistics of the sample images. Normalized Mahalanobis distance measure is used as closeness measure for clustering and as discriminant measure for classification. Experimental results on real images are given to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method. The classification results are found to be as good when compared with Modified Quadratic Discriminant Function (MQDF) - based clustering and classification.
Activity recognition using binary tree SVM

This paper presents an effective classification method based on Support Vector Machines (SVM) in the context of activity recognition. Local features that capture both spatial and temporal information in activity videos have made significant progress recently. Efficient and effective features, feature representation and classification plays a crucial role in activity recognition. For classification, SVMs are popularly used because of their simplicity and efficiency; however the common multi-class SVM approaches applied suffer from limitations including having easily confused classes and been computationally inefficient. We propose using a binary tree SVM to address the shortcomings of multi-class SVMs in activity recognition. We proposed constructing a binary tree using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM), where activities are repeatedly allocated to subnodes until every new created node contains only one activity. Then, for each internal node a separate SVM is learned to classify activities, which significantly reduces the training time and increases the speed of testing compared to popular the `one-against-the-rest' multi-class SVM classifier. Experiments carried out on the challenging and complex Hol-lywood2 dataset demonstrates comparable performance over the baseline bag-of-features method.
Bacterial Sigma Factors and Anti-Sigma Factors: Structure, Function and Distribution

Sigma factors are multi-domain subunits of bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) that play critical roles in transcription initiation, including the recognition and opening of promoters as well as the initial steps in RNA synthesis. This review focuses on the structure and function of the major sigma-70 class that includes the housekeeping sigma factor (Group 1) that directs the bulk of transcription during active growth, and structurally-related alternative sigma factors (Groups 2–4) that control a wide variety of adaptive responses such as morphological development and the management of stress. A recurring theme in sigma factor control is their sequestration by anti-sigma factors that occlude their RNAP-binding determinants. Sigma factors are then released through a wide variety of mechanisms, often involving branched signal transduction pathways that allow the integration of distinct signals. Three major strategies for sigma release are discussed: regulated proteolysis, partner-switching, and direct sensing by the anti-sigma factor.
Design of Hexagonal Meander Fractal Antenna for Multiband Applications

A novel design of the fractal antenna is designed using hexagonal and meander geometry and its various characteristics are investigated in this paper. Proposed antenna is designed on low-cost easily available FR4 glass epoxy substrate with relative permittivity of 4.4 and a thickness of 1.6mm. The antenna is designed and simulated by using High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) version 13. The basic structure of designed antenna is optimized by applying inset feeding technique to achieve the high value of gain and return loss. Simulated results of proposed antenna reveal that the antenna works on six frequency bands of operation such as 3.14GHz, 4.87GHz, 5.74GHz, 6.55GHz, 8.62GHz and 9.85GHz with a value of return loss, gain and VSWR at acceptable level. Both the antennas are also fabricated and then tested using VNA (Vector Network Analyzer), which shows that the experimental results are in good agreement with the simulated results. Proposed antenna resonates at six different frequency bands including WLAN (4.82-5.95GHz), point to point high-speed wireless communication (5.92-8.5GHz) etc. The maximum gain of the proposed fractal antenna can reach 8.80dB at lower frequency band and 7.59dB at upper-frequency band.
L'introduction différenciée des génériques entre pays francophones et anglophones d'Afrique de l'Ouest : une illustration de la globalisation du médicament à partir du cas du Bénin

Cet article se propose de decrire a l’echelle de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et a partir de la situation du Benin les changements recents survenus dans le domaine pharmaceutique international : reconnaissance legale des generiques, developpement de l’industrie pharmaceutique des pays « emergents », concurrence entre celle-ci et les multinationales d’origine occidentale. L’introduction des generiques en Afrique de l’Ouest ne se fait pas dans tous les pays de la meme maniere. Les legislations pharmaceutiques nationales s’averent tres differentes entre les pays francophones et anglophones. Il en ressort, dans ces derniers, une ouverture des le depart plus importante aux generiques, de la part des importateurs, des distributeurs, des prescripteurs comme des consommateurs, ainsi qu’aux approvisionnements venant des pays « emergents ». Ceci a un impact tres positif en termes d’acces aux medicaments par les populations mais pose de nombreuses questions de sante publique. La souplesse de la distribution liberale qui accompagne ces phenomenes genere en effet une perte du controle par les professionnels de la sante. Au-dela des differences legislatives entre les pays, les produits circulent et les pratiques de distribution s’homogeneisent, illustrant ainsi la globalisation actuelle du medicament.
Imagerie motrice interne et simulation de l'action chez l'enfant

Resume Cet article propose une revue de questions sur le developpement de l’imagerie motrice chez l’enfant. Apres une presentation des grands paradigmes utilises pour etudier l’imagerie motrice, nous presenterons les donnees de differentes recherches experimentales realisees chez l’enfant qui revelent que les capacites d’imagerie motrice emergent entre l’âge de 5 et 7 ans et continuent a se developper jusqu’a l’adolescence. Cette synthese fait egalement apparaitre que le developpement de l’imagerie motrice serait tres fortement lie a la capacite des enfants a utiliser des modeles internes du mouvement pour controler leurs actions motrices executees et simulees. Une synthese des donnees obtenues chez les enfants presentant divers troubles de la motricite (traumatises cerebraux, infirmite motrice cerebrale, dyspraxie) soutiennent cette hypothese.
Probabilistic worst-case response-time analysis for the controller area network

This paper presents a novel approach for calculating a probabilistic worst-case response-time for messages in the Controller Area Network (CAN). CAN uses a bit-stuffing mechanism to exclude forbidden bit-patterns within a message frame. The added bits eliminate the forbidden patterns but cause an increase in frame length. How much the length is increased depends on the bit-pattern of the original message frame. Traditional response-time analysis methods assume that all frames have a worst-case number of stuff-bits. This introduces pessimism in the analysis. In this paper we introduce an analysis approach based on using probability distributions to model the number of stuff-bits. The new analysis additionally opens tip for making trade-offs between reliability and timeliness, in the sense that the analysis will provide a certain probability for missing deadlines, which in the reliability analysis can be treated as a probability of failure. We evaluate the performance of our method using a subset of the SAE/sup 1/ benchmark.
Gentrification as Consumption: Issues of Class and Gender

In this paper some issues concerning the interpretation of urban gentrification in the context of debates about the relationship between production and consumption are examined. Two different types of gentrification are distinguished, one the work of the property developer, the other the outcome of the localised collective behaviour of households. Existing accounts of gentrification are criticised for their lack of explanatory value. It is argued that gentrification is unlikely to be founded in the distinctive behaviour of particular fractions of the middle class, because their cultural practices are weakly constrained. Rather it is the ways in which women adapt to new patterns of employment that provide the most plausible explanation of the origins of the process.
The neural network of phantom sound changes over time: a comparison between recent‐onset and chronic tinnitus patients

Tinnitus is characterized by an ongoing conscious perception of a sound in the absence of any external sound source. Chronic tinnitus is notoriously characterized by its resistance to treatment. In the present study the objective was to verify whether the neural generators and/or the neural tinnitus network, evaluated through EEG recordings, change over time as previously suggested by MEG. We therefore analyzed the source‐localized EEG recordings of a very homogenous group of left‐sided narrow‐band noise tinnitus patients. Results indicate that the generators involved in tinnitus of recent onset seem to change over time with increased activity in several brain areas [auditory cortex, supplementary motor area and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) plus insula], associated with a decrease in connectivity between the different auditory and nonauditory brain structures. An exception to this general connectivity decrease is an increase in gamma‐band connectivity between the left primary and secondary auditory cortex and the left insula, and also between the auditory cortices and the right dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex. These networks are both connected to the left parahippocampal area. Thus acute and chronic tinnitus are related to differential activity and connectivity in a network comprising the auditory cortices, insula, dACC and premotor cortex.
LARX: Large-Scale Anti-Phishing by Retrospective Data-Exploring Based on a Cloud Computing Platform

Anti-phishing is an intriguing challenge for Internet users especially for online business or e-pay users. Tracking phishing is quite difficult because most victims are not instantly aware of phishing attacks until their accounts are compromised, and monetary losses occur. Most web browsers provide plug-ins to protect users from phishing websites, but a client side solution cannot provide detailed forensic information on phishing attacks. In this paper, we propose an offline phishing detection system named LARX (acronym for Large-scale Anti-phishing by Retrospective data-eXploration). LARX uses network traffic data archived at a vantage point and analyzes these data for phishing attacks. All of LARX's phishing filtering operations use cloud computing platforms and work in parallel. As an off-line solution for phishing attack detection, LARX can be effectively scaled up to analyze a large volume of trace data when enough computing power and storage capacity are provided.
Dexmedetomidine as an Adjunct to Treat Anticholinergic Toxidrome in Children

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Natural and synthetic modulators of SK (Kca2) potassium channels inhibit magnesium‐dependent activity of the kinase‐coupled cation channel TRPM7

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 7 (TRPM7) is a bifunctional protein comprising a TRP ion channel segment linked to an α‐type protein kinase domain. TRPM7 is essential for proliferation and cell growth. Up‐regulation of TRPM7 function is involved in anoxic neuronal death, cardiac fibrosis and tumour cell proliferation. The goal of this work was to identify non‐toxic inhibitors of the TRPM7 channel and to assess the effect of blocking endogenous TRPM7 currents on the phenotype of living cells.
Joint Custody Arrangements in the Postdivorce Family

Interviews with 41 divorced parents who have court-awarded joint custody reveal several characteristics of shared parenting arrangements. Although some parents divided parenting responsibilities fairly equally, most exhibited a varietv of shared parenting patterns, with differential involvement of the nonresidential parents. The majority (86%)of the sample reported satisfaction with their joint custody arrangements, although nonresidential parents reported a greater number of specific dissatisfactions than did residential parents. Findings reveal joint custody to be a viable option for some divorced parents: in sharp contrast to the assumptions of Goldstein, Freud, and Solnit (1973), these divorced spouses can continue to share parenting even though they have terminated a marital relationship.
Who Decides? What Matters? Scottish Adolescents' Perceptions of the Importance and Influence of Media Personalities, Parents and Peers

To provide an up-to-date description of Scottish adolescents' perceptions of influences on them, a questionnaire-based survey of 427 Secondary Year 2 pupils (13–14 year-old), spread across the country, was carried out in 2002. The results of this survey suggest that these adolescents perceive themselves to be quite autonomous and encouraged to be so by most adults. By contrast, few felt that they had much say in rule-making, beyond the context of the family. Around 90% agreed that parents, friends and teachers were influential, whereas only around 50% agreed that media personalities were an influence.
Parallel Mining Association Rules in Calculation Grids

As a result of the physical storage expansion and backup equipment and the increasing need to store more data, the sequential searching algorithms of association rules have been found ineffective. Thus the introduction of new parallel versions has become a necessity. We propose in this paper, a parallel version of a sequential algorithm Partition. This is fundamentally different from other sequential algorithms, as it scans the database only twice to generate all significant association rules. Consequently, the parallel approach does not require much communication between sites. The proposed approach was implemented for an experimental study. The results obtained show a large gain in execution time compared to the sequential version.
First preliminary evidence of the general relativistic gravitomagnetic field of the Sun and new constraints on a Yukawa-like fifth force

The general relativistic Lense-Thirring precessions of the perihelia of the inner planets of the Solar System amount to ≤ 10 arcseconds per century. Up to now they were always retained too small to be detected. Recent improvements in the planetary ephemerides determination yield the first observational evidence of such a tiny effect. Indeed, extra-corrections to the known perihelion advances of −0.0036 ± 0.0050, −0.0002 ± 0.0004 and 0.0001 ± 0.0005 arcseconds per century were recently determined by E.V. Pitjeva for Mercury, the Earth and Mars, respectively. They were based on the EPM2004 ephemerides and a set of more than 317 000 observations of various kinds. The predicted relativistic Lense-Thirring precessions for these planets are −0.0020, −0.0001 and −3 × 10 arcseconds per century, respectively and are compatible with the measured perihelia corrections, although the experimental errors are still quite large. The data from the forthcoming planetary missions like BepiColombo, Messenger, Venus Express will improve our knowledge of the orbital motion of this planet and, consequently, the precision of the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect. As a by-product of the present analysis, it is also possible to constrain the strength of a Yukawa-like fifth force to a 10 − 10 level at scales of about one Astronomical Unit (10 m).
Human pose recognition by memory-based hierarchical feature matching

A human posture recognition system based on a memory-based approach is studied. Human body images extracted by depth data are labeled and stored in a database together with compressed feature values consist of higher-order local correlation values and outline diameters. The compressed features are used to speed up the database search in a hierarchical manner. The system can classify human body postures into 6 categories in the experiment. The system was robust against change of humans and light condition.
Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis

We present a model of text analysis for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis based on weighted finite state transducers, which serves as the text-analysis module of the multilingual Bell Labs TTS system. The transducers are constructed using a lexical toolkit that allows declarative descriptions of lexicons, morphological rules, numeral expansion rules, and phonological rules, inter alia. To date, the model has been applied to eight languages: Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French, German, Russian, Mandarin and Japanese.
To buy or not to buy? A social dilemma perspective on green buying

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on social dilemma theory and reference group theory to explain the attitude‐behavior inconsistency in environmental consumerism. This research seeks to better understand why, despite concern towards the environment (attitude), consumers fail to purchase environmentally friendly or green products (behavior). Design/methodology/approach – A survey instrument was developed that used scales to measure eight independent and one dependent variable. In addition, socio‐demographic data were also collected about the study participants. To discriminate between green and non‐green buyers, classification with discriminant analysis was used.Findings – The framework presented contributes to the environmental consumerism literature by framing the attitude‐behavior gap as a social dilemma and draws on reference group theory to identify individual factors to help understand the gap and suggest ways in which to bridge it. Results from the study reveal that several characteristi.