Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Is interpersonal and institutional e‐trustworthiness equally important in consumer e‐trust development? Implications for consumers' e‐trust building behaviours

Trust is a widely studied phenomenon across numerous disciplines. E-trust researchers have conducted a vast number of studies, but despite extensive interest in the issue, there are only few studies that concentrate on how consumers build e-trust. Furthermore, consumer e-trust is seen to be a function of both interpersonal and institutional e-trustworthiness, but only limited number of attempts have been conducted to study the relative importance of interpersonal and institutional e-trustworthiness in consumer e-trust development process. The present article seeks to improve this situation by studying how consumers' perceived interpersonal and institutional e-trustworthiness influence their intention to build e-trust. The results of the study suggest that consumers build e-trust actively, and the development of e-trust is not only based on trustees' behaviour. Moreover, the results indicate that interpersonal e-trustworthiness is more important than institutional e-trustworthiness in consumers' e-trust building. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Local 3D Map Building Based on Projection of Virtual Height Line

3D map building is an important task of autonomous land vehicle (ALV) for obstacle detection, path planning. Traditional methods using stereo vision usually relies on dense disparity map obtained by stereo matching, and 3D map is built based on the disparity map. Traditional methods are sensitive to mismatch pixels in disparity map, and dense stereo matching increases lots of unnecessary computation. This paper proposes a novel 3D map building method based on projection of virtual height line (VHL). Unlike traditional methods, the proposed needn't obtain the disparity map, so it reduces the computation cost and can be highly real-time. Simulation and experimental result is given to show that the built 3D map reflects the actual scene basically and meets the need of ALV navigation.
An Accelerated Release Study to Evaluate Long-Acting Contraceptive Levonorgestrel-Containing in Situ Forming Depot Systems

Biodegradable polymer-based injectable in situ forming depot (ISD) systems that solidify in the body to form a solid or semisolid reservoir are becoming increasingly attractive as an injectable dosage form for sustained (months to years) parenteral drug delivery. Evaluation of long-term drug release from the ISD systems during the formulation development is laborious and costly. An accelerated release method that can effectively correlate the months to years of long-term release in a short time such as days or weeks is economically needed. However, no such accelerated ISD system release method has been reported in the literature to date. The objective of the current study was to develop a short-term accelerated in vitro release method for contraceptive levonorgestrel (LNG)-containing ISD systems to screen formulations for more than 3-month contraception after a single subcutaneous injection. The LNG-containing ISD formulations were prepared by using biodegradable poly(lactide-co-glycolide) and polylactic acid polymer and solvent mixtures containing N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone and benzyl benzoate or triethyl citrate. Drug release studies were performed under real-time (long-term) conditions (PBS, pH 7.4, 37 °C) and four accelerated (short-term) conditions: (A) PBS, pH 7.4, 50 °C; (B) 25% ethanol in PBS, pH 7.4, 50 °C; (C) 25% ethanol in PBS, 2% Tween 20, pH 7.4, 50 °C; and (D) 25% ethanol in PBS, 2% Tween 20, pH 9, 50 °C. The LNG release profile, including the release mechanism under the accelerated condition D within two weeks, correlated (r2 ≥ 0.98) well with that under real-time conditions at four months.
Generation X: acceptance of others and teamwork implications

Purpose – Seeks to conduct serious academic study of the Generation X phenomenon.Design/methodology/approach – Considers how the literature (primarily the popular press) has viewed the contrast between Generation X and its predecessor, the Baby Boomer generation. Uses Fey's acceptance of others scale to consider what differences may exist between these individuals and those who preceded them.Findings – The popular literature and anecdotal evidence from practicing managers hold that the impact of a new, radically different generation, often referred to as Generation X, is just now beginning to be felt in US organizations as well as in society as a whole. Many observations and informal reports from practicing managers describe how different the “new breed” of employees is and how difficult they are to manage. Finds that issues of trust and independence surface repeatedly. Interprets the results as providing some evidence that generational differences may exist.Research limitations/implications – Considerabl.
Rhythm sensitivity in macaque monkeys

This study provides evidence that monkeys are rhythm sensitive. We composed isochronous tone sequences consisting of repeating triplets of two short tones and one long tone which humans perceive as repeating triplets of two weak and one strong beat. This regular sequence was compared to an irregular sequence with the same number of randomly arranged short and long tones with no such beat structure. To search for indication of rhythm sensitivity we employed an oddball paradigm in which occasional duration deviants were introduced in the sequences. In a pilot study on humans we showed that subjects more easily detected these deviants when they occurred in a regular sequence. In the monkeys we searched for spontaneous behaviors the animals executed concomitant with the deviants. We found that monkeys more frequently exhibited changes of gaze and facial expressions to the deviants when they occurred in the regular sequence compared to the irregular sequence. In addition we recorded neuronal firing and local field potentials from 175 sites of the primary auditory cortex during sequence presentation. We found that both types of neuronal signals differentiated regular from irregular sequences. Both signals were stronger in regular sequences and occurred after the onset of the long tones, i.e., at the position of the strong beat. Local field potential responses were also significantly larger for the durational deviants in regular sequences, yet in a later time window. We speculate that these temporal pattern-selective mechanisms with a focus on strong beats and their deviants underlie the perception of rhythm in the chosen sequences.
Systemic effects of inhaled corticosteroids are milder in asthmatic patients than in normal subjects

Inhaled glucocorticosteroids are the first line anti-inflammatory agents for the long term treatment of asthma.1 2 They are also frequently prescribed in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),3 even if their efficacy in this condition is still controversial.4 The inhalatory mode of administration maximises the delivery to the airways and minimises the systemic delivery of glucocorticosteroids, increasing the therapeutic ratio.5 However, long term treatment of asthma6 and COPD7 with inhaled corticosteroids is associated with a significant risk of dose related systemic adverse events. This risk is particularly worrying in patients with moderate to severe asthma who require continuous treatment with high dose inhaled steroids to keep the disease under control and to prevent exacerbations, and who also require recurrent cycles of systemic glucocorticosteroids to treat exacerbations.2 3The biomarkers most frequently used to assess systemic availability of glucocorticosteroids are serum cortisol, urinary cortisol and its metabolites, and serum osteocalcin. The most worrying potential systemic effects are osteoporosis, growth suppression, adrenal insufficiency, cataracts, and glaucoma.8 Several studies have assessed the systemic activity of inhaled steroids by looking at short term effects in normal subjects and/or mild asthmatics, with the assumption that results obtained in normal subjects could be transferred to more obstructed subjects such …
False belief understanding goes to school: On the social-emotional consequences of coming early or late to a first theory of mind

Abstract This research report describes a search for possible relations between children's developing theories of mind and aspects of their social-emotional maturity conducted by comparing the performance of 3-year-olds on measures of false belief understanding with teacher ratings of certain of their social-emotional skills and behaviours. The intuitions guiding this exploratory effort were, not only that a working grasp of the possibility of false belief would prove broadly predictive of social-emotional maturity, but also that such associations would be missing in the specific case of those preschool behaviours largely governed by a simple mastery of social conventions. As a step toward evaluating these possibilities a group of 40 preschoolers were given a battery of six measures of false belief understanding. The preschool teachers of these same children then completed a 40-item questionnaire covering a wide variety of markers of social-emotional maturity. Half of these items (termed “Intentional”) fe.
Clostridium difficile infection in adult hamsters.

Diarrhea was encountered in a group of adult female golden Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) used for titrating the scrapie agent. Ninety percent of the cases occurred in animals over 210 days old even though animals of all age groups lived in the colony concurrently. The cause of diarrhea was investigated in both uninoculated animals and those receiving greater than a limiting dilution of scrapie infectivity, i.e., animals that were not expected to contract the experimental scrapie disease. Three forms of diarrhea were observed. The most commonly encountered was profuse and watery. A chronic form presented with semiformed, thin fecal material smearing the retroperitoneal region. Hemorrhagic diarrhea was observed rarely. Mortality was high among animals with acute watery or hemorrhagic diarrhea. Animals with semiformed soft stools were dehydrated, had a roughened hair-coat, and hunched back. Cardinal lesions were necrosis, inflammation, and mucosal hyperplasia of the cecum and colon and cholangiohepatitis with amyloid deposition. Diffuse renal amyloidosis was present in chronic cases. Toxigenic, cytotoxin B-positive Clostridium difficile was isolated from a majority of affected animals. Cytotoxin B was also present in cecal homogenates of diarrheic animals with C. difficile. The pathological and microbiologic findings indicated a typhlitis and colitis in adult hamsters that was associated with C. difficile infection.
Toward a Flexible and Scalable Monitoring Framework in Software-Defined Networks

Network traffic monitoring is an important factor to maintain stability and effective network management in software-defined networking (SDN). However, monitoring by current support of SDN architecture, i.e., OpenFlow, is neither flexible nor scalable due to the dependence to OpenFlow tables, which is designed mainly for forwarding. The scalability issue is even more serious when monitoring in network-wide with multiple switches because of the duplication of flow monitoring. With current SDN, a flow may be monitored at multiple switches if it traverses through them in the network. While in practical, only a single monitoring entry at a switch can be enough to monitor a flow. This duplication may cause significant overhead on switches, the controller and the controller-switch communication channel to handle the duplicated flow entries. Moreover, current SDN architecture has little support to balance the monitoring load overall network. Our previous work proposed SDN-Mon, a fine-grained and flexible monitoring solution for SDN that decouples monitoring from existing forwarding tables, for various network monitoring applications. In this paper, we propose an adaptive mechanism to enable network-wide monitoring in SDN with the support of SDN-Mon framework. With this mechanism, monitoring of a certain flow will be handled by only one single monitoring rule, instead of possibly multiple ones, thus reduces the load/overhead overall network. Moreover, the proposed mechanism also balances the monitoring load/overhead overall switches in the network by adaptively select only switches that have enough idle computing/memory resources to handle the monitoring task. Therefore, it supports preventing the overload and overflow problems by balancing and leveraging the idle computing/memory resources over network-wide.
International Migration in the UNECE Region: Patterns, Trends, Policies

The 1990s has been a turbulent decade for international migration in the UNECE region. While recorded movements have declined in recent years in Western Europe, major questions surround the frequency of unrecorded and irregular migrations which many believe are steadily increasing in number, though the evidence is problematic. Central and Eastern Europe is characterised by short-term, short-distance, cross-border movement, most of which is for economic purposes and takes advantage of the openness of the informal sector. In North America the main thrust of immigration has long been towards permanent settlement, whereas in Europe most migration has, initially at any rate, been temporary, albeit frequently leading to settled immigrant communities. In the 1990s immigration debates in Canada and the US seem to have increasing echoes of those across the Atlantic. Especially in the US the 'immigration ethos' is increasingly questioned. This paper elaborates on these issues by attempting to identify what is actually happening. How important is migration? What are the patterns and trends? How significant are new and unrecorded types of flows? What dilemmas are presented to the managers of the UNECE migration systems?
The Theory of Database Concurrency Control

A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources? Well, there are so many questions that we utter every day. No matter how you will get the solution, it will mean better. You can take the reference from some books. And the the theory of database concurrency control is one book that we really recommend you to read, to get more solutions in solving this problem.
The Third-Person Effect: A Meta-Analysis of the Perceptual Hypothesis

In this study, we report the results of a meta-analysis concerning the third-person effect's perceptual hypothesis. The hypothesis predicts that people judge the media to exert greater persuasive influence on other people than on themselves. Thirty-two published and unpublished studies with 121 separate effect sizes were examined. The overall effect size between estimated media effects on self and on others was r = . 50. Among the 8 moderators investigated (source, method, sampling, respondent, country, desirability, medium, and message), 3 (sampling, respondent, and message) yielded significant effect size variations. Third-person perception in nonrandom and college student samples was significantly larger than in random and noncollege student samples. From a theoretical perspective, these findings may have been due to student participants perceiving themselves to be smarter than other people. A more disturbing explanation would attribute these findings to researchers relying on student samples.
Design and Implementation on Sorting and Tracking Processor for Radar Signal Based on DSP

Radar signal sorting is an important part of radar electronic countermeasure. The measurement, analysis, target recognition and signal tracking of the signal parameters can be performed only after sorting the radar pulse signals from the random overlapping signal strings. This paper's research is based on the application of radar signal sorting in passive radar seeker. It focuses on sequence search algorithm based on the parameters of pulse repetition interval (PRI). And it designs and implements the tracking processor of passive radar information processing system based on DSP, which can ensure the real-time performance of the sorting signals and have practical values and referential values by experimental proof.
Affects separable and inseparable: On the hierarchical arrangement of the negative affects

Watson and Tellegen (1985) proposed a hierarchical model of self-rated affect in which 2 broad, general dimensions - Negative Affect and Positive Affect - are each composed of several correlated yet ultimately distinguishable emotions. As a partial test of this model, we conducted 4 studies examining relations among measures of fear, sadness, hostility, and guilt through a series of multitrait-multimethod matrixes.
Analyzing Social Media Engagement and its Effect on Online Product Purchase Decision Behavior

The continuous progress of society in using online resources has given opportunity to many business executives to utilize social media for their brand promotion or recognition. Organizations utilize social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flicker, Google Plus, and YouTube to promote their product, service, or brand worldwide. Increase of consumer engagement in online social activities has forced companies to integrate social media factors into their marketing strategy. The objective of this study is to find the important factors on which the online purchasing decision depends, based on the personality types of consumers and their attitude toward social media with brand perception.
Crying games in the theory of child development

Mathematical tools, such as static and dynamic optimization theory and game theory, are used to axiomatize developmental theory and to model the interaction between parents, their infant children and siblings. Parents allocate their time between parenting and other activities. They respond to their children's demand for attention. Children signal attention seeking by “crying”. Jealous siblings vie for their parents' attention. Parents, children and siblings are assumed to pursue their goals efficiently. The model solves for the equilibrium amount of crying by siblings, the allocation of parents' time between themselves and their children, and the sub-allocation of attention between rival siblings. Parents have an enlightened self-interest in promoting their children's independence, which they do by setting limits. In this they tread a fine line between spoiling and depriving their child. The model is dynamized to solve the optimal development policy of parents and to formalize the separation process of children from parents.
National History Day: an opportunity for K‐16 collaboration

Purpose – For more than 25 years, the National History Day (NHD) program has a number of distinctive features that make it a uniquely powerful collaborative vehicle for information literacy instruction. By requiring that student participants do in‐depth research using primary source materials, NHD strongly encourages integrated learning of historical content and information‐seeking processes, and thus partnerships between history teachers and librarians. Because few middle and high schools have extensive collections of primary source materials, NHD also promotes partnerships between K‐12 schools and academic libraries, public libraries, and museums in making primary source materials available to students. This case study aims to draw on one academic library's three‐year experience of partnering in NHD events in its community.Design/methodology/approach – Describes the NHD program, highlighting the commonalities between NHD learning goals; the National Standards for History: Historical Thinking Standards (.
Identification of Cell Surface Proteins as Potential Immunotherapy Targets in 12 Pediatric Cancers

Technological advances now allow us to rapidly produce CARs and other antibody-derived therapeutics targeting cell surface receptors. To maximize the potential of these new technologies, relevant extracellular targets must be identified. The Pediatric Oncology Branch of the NCI curates a freely accessible database of gene expression data for both pediatric cancers and normal tissues, through which we have defined discrete sets of over-expressed transcripts in 12 pediatric cancer subtypes as compared to normal tissues. We coupled gene expression profiles to current annotation databases (i.e., Affymetrix, Gene Ontology, Entrez Gene), in order to categorize transcripts by their sub-cellular location. In this manner we generated a list of potential immune targets expressed on the cell surface, ranked by their difference from normal tissue. Global differences from normal between each of the pediatric tumor types studied varied, indicating that some malignancies expressed transcript sets that were more highly diverged from normal tissues than others. The validity of our approach is seen by our findings for pre-B cell ALL, where targets currently in clinical trials were top-ranked hits (CD19, CD22). For some cancers, reagents already in development could potentially be applied to a new disease class, as exemplified by CD30 expression on sarcomas. Moreover, several potential new targets shared among several pediatric solid tumors are herein identified, such as MCAM (MUC18), metadherin (MTDH), and glypican-2 (GPC2). These targets have been identified at the mRNA level and are yet to be validated at the protein level. The safety of targeting these antigens has yet to be demonstrated and therefore the identified transcripts should be considered preliminary candidates for new CAR and therapeutic antibody targets. Prospective candidate targets will be evaluated by proteomic analysis including Westerns and immunohistochemistry of normal and tumor tissues.
Mutual Privacy Preserving $k$ -Means Clustering in Social Participatory Sensing

In this paper, we consider the problem of mutual privacy protection in social participatory sensing in which individuals contribute their private information to build a (virtual) community. Particularly, we propose a mutual privacy preserving <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$</tex-math></inline-formula>-means clustering scheme that neither discloses an individual's private information nor leaks the community's characteristic data (clusters). Our scheme contains two privacy-preserving algorithms called at each iteration of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$</tex-math></inline-formula>-means clustering. The first one is employed by each participant to find the nearest cluster while the cluster centers are kept secret to the participants; and the second one computes the cluster centers without leaking any cluster center information to the participants while preventing each participant from figuring out other members in the same cluster. An extensive performance analysis is carried out to show that our approach is effective for <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$</tex-math></inline-formula> -means clustering, can resist collusion attacks, and can provide mutual privacy protection even when the data analyst colludes with all except one participant.