Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Antecedents of Cause Marketing: An Assessment of Psychographic and Demographic Factors on the Consumer’s Purchase Behaviour

Cause marketing initiatives are increasingly becoming the prominent aspect of the marketing mix; a lot of companies are jumping into the bandwagon primarily to distinguish themselves in the homogeneous markets. However, it is only a recent phenomenon that the companies are beginning to appreciate how corporate giving may be adopted as an effective strategy to market their products in the competitive markets. This article is aimed at examining the effect of psychographics and demographics on the buying behaviour of the consumer. It identifies the various factors that drive the behaviour of the consumer exposed to a customer relationship management (CRM) initiative and examine the impact of the same on the attitude, perception and purchase intention of the consumer. This, in turn, provides valuable insights to the academicians and the practitioners as to how to communicate and what to emphasise while designing their cause marketing communication initiatives.
The Effect of Dietary Fruits & Vegetable Consumption and Physical Activity on Obesity in African American Adolescent Females.

Fruits and Vegetables, Physical Activity, and Obesity in Black Adolescent Females by Tanisha Brooks BS, Bowie State University, 2009 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Public Health Walden University January 2017 Abstract Obesity is epidemic among Black adolescent females, and adolescent obesity often leadsObesity is epidemic among Black adolescent females, and adolescent obesity often leads to adult obesity. Previous research suggests that there may be an interaction between physical activity and dietary fruit and vegetable intake on body mass index (BMI) in obese adolescent females in general, but it was unclear whether the same pattern is evident in Black adolescent females, who, on average, tend to have low levels of physical activity and fruit and vegetable intake. Bandura’s social learning theory implies the possibility that adolescent females might model their behaviors on the behavior of others in their high school years, including physical activity and dietary behaviors. The primary research question for this quantitative, retrospective, cross-sectional study asked whether there is a statistically significant interaction between dietary fruit and vegetable intake and physical activity on the BMI of Black adolescent females. In this study, data from 1,211 Black female adolescents in the Center for Disease Control Youth Risk Behavior Survey database were analyzed using multiple linear regression statistics. BMI was the dependent (outcome) variable, physical activity was the independent (predictor) variable, and fruit and vegetable intake was the moderator variable. Physical activity had a significant negative association with BMI while intake of fruits and vegetables showed no significant association with BMI. Unlike previous research that was not focused specifically on Black adolescent females, Fruit and vegetable intake did not significantly moderate the relationship between physical activity and BMI. This study has positive social change implications for practitioners designing obesity prevention programs for Black female adolescents, which should focus on increasing physical activity levels towards controlling BMI, leading to a healthier life for Black female adolescents. Fruits and Vegetables, Physical Activity, and Obesity in Black Adolescent Females by
Cancer Incidence Rate in the Elderly Inhabitants of Tehran: Is there Really any Cluster?

Background: The number of new cancer cases in the elderly is growing because of the aging population. Methods: Cancer data of the elderly (65 years and older) were collected from Iran cancer registry in 2007. Local Moran’s I was used as a measure of spatial analysis to identify the cluster patterns. Results: The overall cancer incidence rates were 862.4 and 474.8 per 100,000 in men and women, respectively. Prostate cancer and breast cancer were the most common types of cancer in men and women, correspondingly. Using the Local Moran’s I tool, we identiﬁed more spatial clusters among men than women. Districts 1, 2, 3 and 6 in the north of Tehran were hot spots for prostate canceranddistrict16inthesouthof Tehranwasthecoolspotforthistypeof cancer,anddistricts1and3werethehotspotsforbreast cancer. Conclusions: More cancer hot spots were located in the north of Tehran where districts are more privileged, and more cool spots were located in the south of the city where districts are more underprivileged.
A highly stretchable and conductive composite based on an emulsion-templated silver nanowire aerogel

Stretchable and conductive composites are an important component of flexible electronics. However, it still remains a challenge to achieve high stretchability and high conductivity simultaneously in the composites to ensure high reliability in use. In this work, this issue is addressed by developing an emulsion-template method to fabricate a porous silver nanowire (Ag NW)-based aerogel. The aerogel displays an isotropic and hierarchical microstructure with good uniformity and process controllability. To make the aerogel stretchable, the open cells in the aerogel are infiltrated with an elastomer. The obtained composite exhibits high conductivity (65.7 S cm−1) and good stretchability (130% strain) at a remarkably low density (50 mg cm−3) of Ag NWs, which is enabled by the formation of a three-dimensional conductive and flexible network. The study suggests that the emulsion-templated Ag NW aerogel could be a good candidate for the conductive scaffold of highly stretchable conductors.
Passive Smoking as a Risk Factor for Dry Eye in Children

Introduction: To find an association of passive smoking with dry eye in children Methodology: Cross-sectional study, all children presenting with eye discomfort were eligible. After applying exclusion criteria, children was assessed and graded for severity of dry eye based upon history and sequential testingTear film Break Up time (TBUT), Corneal examination by fluorescent staining, Schirmer1 test. Passive smoking was evaluated based upon questionnaire and recall method. Results: Out of 250 children reported with eye discomfort, 100 were eligible for study. 70/100 children were diagnosed with dry eye. Passive smoking was evaluated using two parametersnumber of cigarette smoked per day and exposure to smoke per day; both the factor showed strong association with dry eye as compared to non dry eye (0.66 ± 2.1 vs 18.7 ±11.2, p <0.0001) and (0.9 ± 2.88 vs 9.5 ± 5.2, p<0.0001) respectively. Conclusion: Passive smoking represents a significant risk factor of dry eye in children.
The influence of the parent's presence in the dental operatory on the behavior and anxiety of children receiving dental treatment /

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Fabry-Perot Cavity Leaky Wave Antennas with Tunable Features for Terahertz Applications

Terahertz (THz) radiation is a very appealing band of the electromagnetic spectrum due to its practical applications. In this context, the THz generation and manipulation is an essential part of the technological development. The demand of THz antennas is still high because it is already difficult to obtain directive, efficient, planar, low-cost, and easy-to-fabricate THz radiating systems. In this regard, Fabry-Perot cavity leaky-wave antennas are gaining increasing attention at THz, due to their very interesting radiating features: the combination of planar designs with metamaterials and metasurfaces could offer a promising platform for future THz manipulation technologies. In this short review, we focus on different classes of leaky-wave antennas, based on materials with tunable quasi-optical parameters. The possibility of producing directive patterns with particularly good efficiencies, as well as the capability of dynamically reconfiguring their radiating features, are discussed by taking into account the risk of increasing costs and fabrication complexity.
Antidepressants, benzodiazepines and azapirones for panic disorder in adults: a network meta-analysis

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: To compare individual active drugs (antidepressants, benzodiazepines and azapirones) and placebo in terms of efficacy and acceptability in the acute treatment of panic disorder, with or without agoraphobia. To rank treatments for panic disorder (antidepressants, benzodiazepines, azapirones and placebo) according to their effectiveness and acceptability.
Distribution, ecological role and symbioses of selected shrubby species in the Mediterranean Basin: a review

Abstract Among the Mediterranean ecosystems, shrublands are a characteristic type of vegetation, widespread in different habitats. Owing to different factors such as the physiological, morphological, reproductive, phenological and regenerative properties, as well as the inter-intraspecific interactions, each shrubby species represents an important element within the plant community and plays a specific ecological role. In this review, attention was focused on the ecological functions and type of plant-microsymbiont interactions in respect of selected shrubby species within the Mediterranean Basin: Amelanchier ovalis, Astragalus nebrodensis, Crataegus laciniata, Lycium intricatum, Prunus spinosa and Viburnum tinus.
Issues using logistic regression with class imbalance, with a case study from credit risk modelling

The class imbalance problem arises in two-class classification problems, when the less frequent (minority) class is observed much less than the majority class. This characteristic is endemic in many problems such as modeling default or fraud detection. Recent work by Owen [ 19 ] has shown that, in a theoretical context related to infinite imbalance, logistic regression behaves in such a way that all data in the rare class can be replaced by their mean vector to achieve the same coefficient estimates. We build on Owen's results to show the phenomenon remains true for both weighted and penalized likelihood methods. Such results suggest that problems may occur if there is structure within the rare class that is not captured by the mean vector. We demonstrate this problem and suggest a relabelling solution based on clustering the minority class. In a simulation and a real mortgage dataset, we show that logistic regression is not able to provide the best out-of-sample predictive performance and that an approach that is able to model underlying structure in the minority class is often superior.
THE EDUCATIONAL REINTEGRATION OF THE REMIGRANT PUPILS IN ROMANIAN SCHOOLS. CASE STUDY IN VRANCEA COUNTY

The educational system in Romania is facing the new challenge of reintegrating the children that returned in their home country after a period of migration, and the update in the educational procedures is becoming more and more important as the number of the remigrant children is rapidly increasing, the most recent estimations mentioning 150,000-180,000 (Brebuleţ, 2018). This research investigated the social perception of the remigrant pupils in the educational field (native pupils and teachers) and the potential changes that teachers, schools and the system could implement (from specific activities to institutional update and development of new didactic instruments). The research methodology was quantitative, based on a questionnaire with Likert type scales. Previous researches in Vrancea county showed the psychological, social and educational effects of remigration, but the updates in the educational system to better respond those needs is more dependent on their perception by the decision makers (teachers and school management) and by the native children. Ideally, the social perception should adequately reflect the educational reality. Still, what happens if the perception of the native children and teachers does not reflect reality? What happens if the majority of children could not identify the problems the remigrants face after returning to Romania? What if the teachers, when planning, implementing and evaluating the educational activities, don’t rely on an adequate knowledge of the difficulties that remigrants have to face, can they support the educational system to better respond to the specific needs of the remigrants? Revista de Pedagogie Journal of Pedagogy, 2019 (2), 85 – 105 https://doi.org/10.26755/RevPed/2019.2/85 * PhD. Candidate, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.
The Effectiveness of Sentiment Analysis for Detecting Fine-grained Service Quality

Improving public transport relies on the development of appropriate tools for measuring and monitoring service quality. While there are several studies exploring perceived service quality, these works are mainly based on surveys, which are limited to a pre-defined period and do not enable to constantly observe and analyze the respond of passengers to different events. As a result, they may miss events affecting service quality in a transport hub. In contrast, social media feeds provide an opportunity to constantly look for events that may affect the service quality. However, in a confined geographic area like a transport hub, the sparsity of data considerably reduce the effectiveness of straight-forward event detection methods. In contrast to earlier works and in order to face these challenges, in this paper, we explore the effectiveness of sentiment analysis to detect events impacting perceived service quality in a confined location. Southern Cross Station, a major transport hub in Melbourne, Australia, is selected as a case study. Moreover, a statistical approach to combine and integrate sentiment-based and frequency-based event detection is proposed. Main findings confirm the effectiveness of sentiment analysis for detecting events affecting service quality in a transport hub. Additionally, the results prove that the proposed method can improve the sensitivity of event detection for events affecting service quality.
Performance Improvement of Speech Emotion Recognition Model Using Generative Adversarial Networks

최근 딥 러닝 모델의 발전에 따라 음성 감정 인식 모델의 성능 개선이 이루어지고 있으나 충분한 학습 데이터 확보의 어려움은 여전히 성능 개선의 저하 요인이다. 본 논문은 Generative Adversarial Network(GAN)으로 부정 감정 데이터를 생성하여 부정 데이터 학습을 추가함으로써 음성 감정 인식 모델의 성능을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 감정 인식 판별기, 감정 신호 생성기로 구성되어 있다. 생성기는 부정 감정신호와 부정 레이블을 만들어 학습 데이터 셋을 보완하고, 판별기는 실제 감정 신호와 부정 감정 신호가 포함된 학습 데이터 셋으로 훈련된다. 실험은 IEMOCAP 데이터 셋을 사용하였고 다양한 인식 모델을 구성하여 인식률을 비교한 결과 GAN을 추가한 감정 인식기가 BLSTM과 Attention을 이용한 감정 인식 모델에 비해 1.86% 더 정확한 예측을 제공하는 것으로 나타났다.
An Assessment in the Green HRM Practices and Environmental Sustainability- A Review of Literature

Green HRM practices refers to as the HR practices that promotes ecological responsiveness sustainable development of resources and involving employee’s commitment and engagement towards organization’s goal and practices whereas, sustainable development could be defined as economic development that eradicates the depletion of natural resources. This paper aims at attaining green HRM practices and sustainable development in any organization to the fullest so that the organization could achieve go green initiative and contribute towards the environment. This paper doesn’t deals with the primary data but with the secondary data and any researcher could further use the data for their further research. It has been found from the review that the practices of green HRM are considerablyeffect the sustainability of organisation. Numerous studies have clearly indicated that the numerous green HRM practices for example green appraisals and recruitment, training and development substantially contributes to the sustainability of the organisations.
Drivers of Consumer Loyalty in the Wellness Sector

Facing a severely competitive environment and unique consumer expectations, cultivating consumer loyalty seems crucial for every firm. Rather than to cultivate, marketers find it more difficult to sustain a loyal consumer base. Understanding loyalty drives is of utmost importance now, and it is the main concern of this study. Faced with lack of structural management approaches in reference to relationship practices, this chapter provides a cohesive understanding of loyalty drivers in application of acquisition, retention, and experience strategies. The study involved a survey of 200 consumers of wellness firms. A confirmatory factor analysis has been employed to evaluate consumers’ priority among acquisition, retention, and experience-based marketing strategies. The study offers valuable insights to wellness firms to fine-tune their CRM programmes in view of traditional and modern practices. As experience is very complex while acquisition and retention are highly imitable, firms need to embrace it with clarity to select the right elements to gain consumer loyalty.
Plasma Growth Differentiation Factor-15 in Children with Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Congenital Heart Disease

Objectives: We aimed to investigate the levels and diagnostic value of plasma growth differentiation factor15 (GDF-15) in children with pulmonary hypertension associated with congenital heart disease (PH-CHD). Methods: One hundred infants and children with CHD were included in the study; 50 of them with PHCHD and another 50 patients with CHD only. Fifty healthy infants and children of matched age and sex were included as a control group. GDF-15 levels as well as echocardiographic examination were done for all included subjects. Cardiac catheterization was performed for patients only. Results: GDF-15 levels were significantly higher in patients with PH-CHD (0.62±0.2) nmol/ml compared to those with CHD only patients (0.21±0.06) nmol/ml and to control group (0.13±0.02) nmol/ml with P<0.001. GDF-15 levels were significantly elevated according to the severity of PH; (0.4±0.1) nmol/ml in mild PH vs (0.7±0.3) nmol/ml in moderate PH vs (1.1±0.1) nmol/ml in severe PH. At a cutoff value of ≥ 0.313 nmol/ml, the sensitivity of GDF-15 as a diagnostic biomarker in PH-CHD children was 95%, the specificity was 100%, positive predictive value (PPV) was 100%, and negative predictive value (NPV) was 95.2 %. Conclusion: GDF-15 is elevated in infants and children with PH-CHD and can be a promising diagnostic biomarker in these patients.
A review on: perception and its effect on judgments

Perception is central to understanding how people react. Everyone has certain perceptual tendencies that define the world from our own personal point of view. Values, emotional states, needs and personality all come into play. Characteristic of the object and situation also affect what people select, how people organize what people perceive, and how people make interpretation. Most critical are the errors in judgments people make the world around us. A particularly interesting tendency is how people make causal inferences about what people perceived. People tend to attribute other people’s behavior to their personality rather than to situational forces.
Application of waste from steel industry to construction material: A Review

Concrete is material which widely used in construction projects because it has many advantages and is an inexpensive material, durable and can be molded into any shape. On the other hand, concrete has some disadvantages due to the brittle nature which made concrete also suffers from sudden failure. However, the routinely creating enthusiasm for materials by the construction business can’t be totally faced by regular resources or traditional materials. Henceforth, there is a need to create elective potential materials and innovative methods to fathom the growing requests of building development. For this reason, some research introduced Slag as ecofriendly and natural materials to reinforce the concrete. Therefore, in recent years, it has concentrated on discover alternative techniques for outline, development, and support with the motivation behind delivering naturally benevolent structures. This study will present a short review on the steel slag which covered the basic chemical characteristic and also, the potential of steels slag as an alternative building material in construction. Furthermore, discussing from the manageability perspective, the recuperation of slag is certain from all viewpoints: economically, environmentally, and socially as construction material. Therefore, this paper summarizes the progresses and points out the directions for the proper use of steel slag.
A call for nurses to meet the health care of people in chronic disease its impact on quality of life

Objective: to describe the perception of people with chronic disease: diabetes and high blood pressure, compared to their quality of life, in a second-tier institution, the program of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, in Barranquilla (Colombia). Materials and methods: A descriptive approach. The informants were a total of 6 people, made up of two men diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and 4 women, 2 of them with hypertension, 2 diabetes mellitus. For data analysis, content analysis technique (14) was used. The data were systematized and processed through the Atlas tool T. The theoretical basis of is research is the model of health as expanding consciousness for the care of people in chronic disease, proposed by the nurse Margaret Newman and model results with quality of life in cancer survivors, proposed by Betty Ferrell were contrasted. Results: People in situation of chronic non-communicable disease, diabetes and hypertension, perceive their quality of life dimensions: physical: limitations and discomfort described; in the social: isolation, dependency, impaired sexual function; psychological: anxiety, hopelessness, depression and uncertainty; spiritual dimension: strength, faith, God heals. Conclusion: It is important that the nurse and the multidisciplinary team led Programs Health Promotion and Prevention disease, provide care where holistically taking into account all dimensions of people living with a disease chronic non transmissible, which will result in a better quality of life.
Single Implant Supported Crowns in the Aesthetic Zone. Patient Evaluation of Aesthetic Appearance Compared to Laypersons and Dentists.

OBJECTIVE: To appraise the patients’ aesthetic awareness following an implant restoration in the anterior maxilla as compared to dentists and laypeople. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients (n=139) restored with an implant-retained crown in the anterior maxilla were invited to rate their satisfaction. Projected magnified images of the crowns were appraised by dentists (n=8) and laypeople (n=6) in room settings. The laypeople judged also printed 10x15cm photographs. Differences in the levels of satisfaction between the actual patient, dentists, and laypeople were compared. PES/WES and Jemt papilla scores were also assigned. RESULTS: Laypeople were less critical than the dentists when judging from printed photographs and vice versa when same images were magnified and projected onto screen. CONCLUSION: Patient satisfaction and awareness of aesthetic appearance following an implant treatment in the aesthetic zone appears to differ from dentists’ and laypeople’s observations. Laypeople’s evaluation is influenced by the method used for appraising the aesthetic outcomes.