Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
In Vivo Measurement of Regional Large Artery Compliance by Intravascular Ultrasound Under Pentobarbital Anesthesia

Background: The presence of smooth muscle fibers on the wall of large arteries would suggest that arterial compliance might change in response to vasoactive substances. The purpose of this study is to determine the basal level of vasomotor tone in these arteries in a commonly used animal preparation and to learn whether the compliance of large conductance arteries can be altered in vivo by vasoactive agents. Methods: Proximal iliac arterial compliance was measured in 7 pentobarbital-anes thetized pigs, before and during local infusions of adenosine and norepinephrine. Luminal area was measured every forty milliseconds by means of a 30 MHz intravas cular ultrasound catheter and an automatic edge detection program. Simultaneous high- fidelity pressure measurements were obtained by means of a catheter-tipped pressure microtransducer positioned at the origin of the iliac artery. Linear regression analysis of the area/pressure relationship in two consecutive cardiac cycles (systolic phase only) was performed before and during adenosine and norepinephrine infusions. The slope of the area/pressure regression line was defined as an index of arterial compliance. Measurements after three minutes of infusions of adenosine (5-5000 μg/minute) and norepinephrine (0.001-10 μg/minute) were compared with the control measurements. Results: Even at the highest infusion rate, adenosine did not significantly increase arterial compliance as compared with baseline (25 ± 7 vs 19 ±4 mm2/mmHg x 10-3, respectively, P = ns). In contrast, norepinephrine decreased arterial compliance as compared with the second baseline control (13 ±3 vs 20 ±3 mm2/mmHg x 10-3, respectively, P < 0.01). Conclusions: In this animal model with pentobarbital anesthesia, arterial compliance may be modified more by the acute infusion of norepinephrine than by adenosine in large conductance arteries such as the proximal iliac. Thus, in this preparation, smooth muscle tone tends to be minimal and arterial compliance near maximal (ie, mostly a passive phenomenon). However, in response to norepinephrine, arterial compliance can decrease significantly as smooth muscle tone increases. Intravascular ultrasound allows continuous and accurate monitoring of these changes of arterial dimensions, suggesting that this technique may be useful in the evaluation of pharmacologically induced changes in the compliance of large arteries by vasoactive agents.
The effect of service quality and brand trust on loyalty through customer satisfaction in transportation service Go-jek (go-ride) in Palembang City

The objective of this study to analyze the effect of service quality and brand trust onloyalty through customer satisfaction. The Go-Jek (Go-Ride) users in Palembangwere taken as respondents. This research used purposive sampling technique; thenumber respondents were collected, 100 respondents. The data analyzedby usingStructural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results of this study indicate that brandtrust does not affect consumer loyalty. The suggestions in this study that themanagement is expected to conduct a survey to determine the needs of the desiredcustomer and provide promotions related to the desired requirements.
Emotional Labor within Hotel Industry – A Case Study of Hotels in Ranchi

Hotel Industry is a labour intensive, service industry and the core of any service industry is to keep the customer satisfied. However, to achieve this goal, the staffs working in the hotel industry many times must fake their emotions. This is termed as Emotion Labour and many researchers have worked in the field of emotional labour. However, most of these works focused mainly on the core of emotional labour in general and hotel industry specific emotional labour research is very few. Even those which are available, are not in the context of Indian Hotel Industry. Hence, there remains a gap in the research and more work is to be done in Emotional Labour in Indian Hotel Industry. In this backdrop, current study is an attempt to find the existence and acceptance of emotional labour in employees of hotel industry. The study was conducted in Hotels of Ranchi to find how the employees interpret themselves as emotional labourer. Questionnaire was floated to the employees who interact with the guest in hotel industry and their responses were recorded in the Likert five-point scale. The result suggest that emotional labour is high in the hotel industry and the hotelier need to change their perception regarding staff involvement. The study also suggests that emotional labor should be considered seriously, as it affects and influence customer satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately leading to better financial performance of the organization.
Parameter Optimization and Study of Inverse J-A Hysteresis Model

A method for parameter identification of J-A hysteresis model is presented. This method is based on combination of pattern search and nonlinear least square method. The B-H curve of different toroid and Epstein samples are obtained experimentally. The parameters of J-A model are determined by proposed parameter identification method. There is very good agreement between experimental data and predicted B-H curve for different extensive samples.
Étude de nouvelles méthodes de design, d'implémentation, de synchronisation et d’égalisation pour le système de modulation FBMC/OQAM

Cette these a pour principal objectif l'etude d'une modulation multiporteuse alternative a l'OFDM et connue actuellement sous le nom d'OFDM/OffsetQAM, ou encore, en relation avec ses realisations sous forme de bancs de filtres, par l'acronyme FBMC/OQAM. Une premiere difference importante entre l'OFDM et cette variante est liee au codage OQAM, qui introduit un decalage temporel entre la partie reelle et imaginaire des symboles de donnees complexes a transmettre. Cette these rappelle les caracteristiques essentielles de la modulation monoporteuse OQAM et etudie ses liens avec la modulation multiporteuse FBMC/OQAM, ou chaque sous-porteuse est modulee en OQAM. A la difference de l'OFDM conventionnel, la modulation FBMC/OQAM peut fonctionner sans l'ajout d'un prefixe cyclique (CP), et donc sans perte d'efficacite spectrale, et elle peut fournir egalement, avec un filtre prototype approprie une forme d'onde bien localisee en temps et frequence. Nous proposons dans cette these une methode d'optimisation de ce filtre prototype permettant d'assurer un compromis entre ses mesures de localisation en temps et en frequence tout en assurant sa parfaite orthogonalite. Dans la structure de bancs de filtres modules du FBMC/OQAM, le fait de separer partie reelle et imaginaire des donnees font que dans la realisation sous forme d'algorithmes rapides, les transformees de Fourier rapides (FFT) doivent fonctionner a une cadence doub le de celle necessaire a l'OFDM. Dans cette these, nous mettons en evidence une propriete du signal FBMC/OQAM qui, tout en preservant la contrainte de causalite, aboutit a une reduction importante, de l'ordre de 2, de la complexite operatoire du modulateur. Pour le systeme FBMC/OQAM, par rapport a l'OFDM, l'avantage en termes de localisation frequentielle s'obtient grâce a l'utilisation d'un filtre prototype suffisamment long et au prix d'un recouvrement des signaux multiporteuses generes par le modulateur. Ce recouvrement peut-etre penalisant dans le cas d'une transmission sous forme de paquets courts. Nous proposons une solution, en OQAM et en FBMC/OQAM, a ce probleme potentiel avec des mises en œuvre ou la longueur de paquets n'excede pas la duree des donnees utiles, tout en assurant l'orthogonalite parfaite dans des conditions de transmission ideales. Cette these traite egalement de la synchronisation temporelle et frequentielle du signal FBMC/OQAM lorsque celle-ci peut s'effectuer a partir de donnees pilotes transmises sous forme de preambule. Les methodes proposees utilisent des proprietes du signal FBMC/OQAM et se traduisent a la fois par l'obtention de preambules tres courts et des estimateurs a faible complexite. Finalement, une famille de methodes non-cooperatives est proposee pour egaliser le signal FBMC/OQAM apres transmission dans un canal multi-trajets. L'identification aveugle du canal est traitee dans le domaine frequentiel en exploitant les statistiques d'ordre deux et/ou quatre.
The Child at Risk for Learning Disorder

In a prospective study, observable neurologic signs during the first year of life have been found to be related significantly to seven year neuro logic and psychologic measures which are associated with learning disabilities. Scored ratings of multiple outcome items are being found to be better for identifying these psychoneurologically inefficient chil dren than are isolated measures which reflect stress, such as prema turity or the Apgar rating. From the Collaborative Study schedules a neurologic "at risk" index is being developed. This promises to be help ful for identifying babies who are likely to have a later learning difficulty.
CIVET COFFEE AGRO TOURISM ATTRACTIONS AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE STRATEGY IN IMPROVING MARKETING PERFORMANCE IN BALI

All companies have unique and different strategies with the aim of winning the competition. Tight competition also motivates the management of companies and business people in the field of agro-tourism especially coffee civet agrotourism to provide the best service to their customers. The superiority or strength of the civet coffee product business is able to produce creative products and innovations in the form of ideas and ideas in creating new products. In winning the competition, a company must always be creative and innovative so that it is able to meet the needs of consumers according to their tastes and changing times. Therefore we need a marketing strategy model that is in accordance with the conditions of the company with a SWOT analysis so that in the future it is expected that coffee civet agrotourism can be more developed and the company's objectives can be achieved both short and long term goals. In this study aims to determine the variables that are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats faced by coffee civet tourism in marketing their products and how to compile and recommend an effective and efficient alternative marketing strategy for Civet Country Civet Coffee. This research was conducted at Agrowisata Negari Luwak Kopi Desa Singapadu, Bali. The sample in the study consisted of four people namely General Manager, head of production, Human Resources (HR) manager, Director of Sales and Marketing. Especially for external respondents, the consideration was that respondents understood the marketing strategy so that all respondents were considered competent. Respondents from 15 consumers consisting of 5 repeater guests who often buy coffee civet products so that they are more aware of the taste, process in making products and the quality of coffee products.10 New consumers are guests who are coffee lovers. Data analysis techniques were carried out by SWOT analysis, IFE and EFE Matrix
The challenges of robust inter-vehicle communications

Inter-vehicle communication has to be able to cope with adverse conditions like received signal strength fluctuations, channel load saturation, or high mobility to provide robust communication services as a basis for safety-related applications. We show the impact of realistic radio models on the performance of vehicular ad hoc networks. While most of the implications are known, some of them appear to be underestimated in vehicular scenarios. We want to convince protocol designers of `thinking in probabilities' when intending to achieve reliable communications. Among the contributions of this paper are a discussion of link layer desynchronization, a derivation of probabilities of bidirectional links and associated costs, and a fairness concept.
On the survival of Cooperation under Different Matching Schemes

In this note, the persistence of cooperation in the standard Prisoner's Dilemma is examined under five distinct matching mechanisms. The general model is a birth-and-death process, which is studied using a simple direct method and the mutation-counting technique. Mean matching is discussed first, before two variants of random matching and viscosity are analyzed. Finally payoff assortative matching is considered. In all five cases the stochastic stability of the absorbing sets of the evolutionary process is examined; assortative matching is shown to sustain significant amounts of cooperation.
Differentiation and heterogeneity in T‐antigen immortalized precursor cell lines from mouse cerebellum

Recently, various techniques have been developed to transfer oncogenes into brain cells in order to generate immortalized neural cell lines. It is of interest to establish how well such cell lines reflect their cellular origin. Here we report the characterization of sixteen cell lines from mouse cerebellum and, as a control, six cell lines from skin. Lines were established by immortalizing postnatal primary cell cultures with a retro‐virus carrying a modified temperature‐sensitive variant of SV40 large T antigen. The cell lines reflect many properties of the cell type from which they were derived. All of the sixteen cerebellar lines expressed one or more markers of the neural precursor cells, namely, nestin and epitopes for NG2 and A2B5. In contrast, none of the six skin lines expressed neural precursor markers. Both types of cell lines expressed vimentin and fibronectin. Differentiation occurred in some of the cerebellar lines and was enhanced in defined medium. A small percentage of cerebellar cells, usually less than 5%, was positive for a marker of differentiation, e.g., glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), galactocerebroside (GalC), or L1, Expression of GFAP colocalized with that of nestin at varying levels of intensity, indicating a gradual replacement of nestin by GFAP in the cytoskeleton. Both the cells positive for precursor markers and those positive for differentiation markers tended to be located in clusters, suggesting that stochastic processes or cell‐cell interactions are important for the determination of the fate of cells within a clonal cell line in vitro. The degree of differentiation seemed to correlate with a shift from serum‐containing to defined medium, but not with a shift from the permissive to the nonpermissive temperature for T antigen expression.
Design and formal analysis of a new Fair Multi-Party Certified Mail Protocol

Fair Multi-Party Certified Mail Protocol is a value service to deliver important data over internet with guaranteed receipt for each successful delivery. Therefore, the protocol needs to be Confidential, Non-repudiation and Fairness. This paper pointed out potential security concern for a current protocol, and also came out an offline third party fair multi-party certified Mail Protocol based on signcryption scheme. Through the analysis by Kailar logic, it is can be seen the protocol can achieve the non-repudiation, fairness. Furthermore, it has advantage of resisting the attacks as distort, replay and conspiracy.
Probabilistic Equivalence Checking with Propositional DAGs

A safety razor comprises a pivotal cap member which in a first position is effective to obscure the cutting edge of the blade or blade members to protect the cutting edge from contact with other objects. The cap member when pivoted to a second position exposes the blade cutting edge and positions a skin engaging guard surface adjacent the blade cutting edge to provide a desired shaving geometry.
A fast video stitching method for motion-compensated frames in compressed video streams

We propose a fast video stitching method based on global motion tracking for motion-compensated frames, which can construct high definition or panorama video from standard definition video streams. Our method consists of two stages. The first stage calculates projection matrix between stitched frames coarsely by compensating for global motion of each input video stream. Since the result of the first stage may include some matching error, fine adjustment is performed in the second stage.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders or Not: Differential Diagnosis of Repetitive Behaviors Among Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disorders

This chapter focuses on the complex psychobiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) among individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). It begins with OCD as an anxiety-driven psychiatric disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts and images (obsessions) and a tendency to engage in a select group of escape behaviors (compulsions) of sufficient severity to interfere with daily life. Using these criteria to diagnose OCD in persons with IDD frequently results in a heterogeneous disorder that overlaps other forms as repetitive behaviors (Baldwin et al 2008; Pallanti et al 2008). Resolving the heterogeneity issue requires that we differentiate OCD from related stereotypies, ritualistic behaviors, self-injurious behaviors (Flavell, 1982), and OC-related behaviors associated with Autistic Spectrum Disorders( ASD),Tourette’s Disorder (TD) and other movement disorders (Barnhill, 2008). To accomplish this task we will move beyond the descriptive criteria for OCD and anxiety disorders found in the Diagnostic and Statistical ManualIV-TR (APA, 2000) and the Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disability ( Fletcher et al, 2007). By the end of this review it will be readily apparent to the reader that OCD like other anxiety disorders represents a convergence of many functional abnormalities spread out across several neuro-anatomically distinct but functionally overlapping pathways. To reach this conclusion, we will come to understand that the symptomatic diversity of this group of disorders of repetitive thoughts and behaviors depends in large part on regional malfunctioning within a pathway or network rather than on any single “lesion” (Davis, 2002, Barnhill, 2008). We will begin this exploration by examining fear, fear conditioning and their role in anxiety disorders. To do this requires an analysis of new findings in the neurosciences, especially gene-environmental interactions, temperament, physiological responses to stressful environmental events and the mode of anxiety-related behavioral responses (Feinstein et al 2007; De Mathis et al 2006) . Later, we will shift to an ethological model that uses reciprocal social, ritualized and attachment behaviours to describe subtypes of anxiety. This approach can be a useful tool can be useful tool for classifying OC related behaviors among nonverbal patients with severeprofound IDD. The remainder of the chapter will address the relationship between OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorder (OCSD) and
A Novel Integrated Model to Measure Supplier Performance Considering Qualitative and Quantitative Criteria used in the Supplier Selection Process

Supplier evaluation has become a significant topic over the past few decades, as companies have become more outsourced oriented. However, previous research on this topic has not paid adequate attention to the limitations associated with the availability of accurate and reliable data relating to the performance of potential suppliers. In an attempt to address this issue, this paper proposes a novel supplier evaluation model that can handle imprecise quantitative and qualitative data. Additionally, Decision Maker’s judgement regarding both qualitative and quantitative criteria are incorporated into this model so that a more comprehensive and realistic assessment of supplier performance can be achieved. The model combines five separate methods that have specific capabilities to handle multiple limitations in the existing methods: first, Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method are used to analyse qualitative criteria/data; second, Analytical Hierarchy Process and Axiomatic Design are used to analyse quantitative criteria/data, with a particular focus on handling variability in performance data; and third, Data Envelopment Analysis is used to integrate the results of the two approaches above to arrive at a comparative assessment of supplier performance. The proposed integrated model is verified using a
When Will Workers Follow an Algorithm?: A Field Experiment with a Retail Business

This paper develops a new algorithm for increasing the revenue in a dynamic product assortment problem. Then, it identifies the challenges faced by managers in practice and discusses the conditions under which workers follow the algorithm. To do so, I conducted a field experiment with a beverage vending machine business. The experiment shows that, on average, workers are reluctant to follow the algorithmic advice; however, the workers are more willing to conform once their forecasts are integrated into the algorithm. Analyses using non-experimental variations highlight the importance of taking worker and context heterogeneity into account to maximize the benefit from adopting a new algorithm. Higher worker's regret, sales volatility, and fewer delegations increase the conformity, while they mitigate the effects of integration. Workers avoid high-traffic vending machines and focus on machines with high sales volatility when adopting the algorithm. The effects on the sales are largely similar to the effects on product assortments. The results emphasize the gap between nominal and actual performance of an algorithm and several practical issues to be resolved.
Global gene expression in Escherichia coli biofilms

It is now apparent that microorganisms undergo significant changes during the transition from planktonic to biofilm growth. These changes result in phenotypic adaptations that allow the formation of highly organized and structured sessile communities, which possess enhanced resistance to antimicrobial treatments and host immune defence responses. Escherichia coli has been used as a model organism to study the mechanisms of growth within adhered communities. In this study, we use DNA microarray technology to examine the global gene expression profile of E. coli during sessile growth compared with planktonic growth. Genes encoding proteins involved in adhesion (type 1 fimbriae) and, in particular, autoaggregation (Antigen 43) were highly expressed in the adhered population in a manner that is consistent with current models of sessile community development. Several novel gene clusters were induced upon the transition to biofilm growth, and these included genes expressed under oxygen‐limiting conditions, genes encoding (putative) transport proteins, putative oxidoreductases and genes associated with enhanced heavy metal resistance. Of particular interest was the observation that many of the genes altered in expression have no current defined function. These genes, as well as those induced by stresses relevant to biofilm growth such as oxygen and nutrient limitation, may be important factors that trigger enhanced resistance mechanisms of sessile communities to antibiotics and hydrodynamic shear forces.
Application of edible coating for improving meat quality: a review.

Edible coatings can improve the quality of fresh, frozen, and processed meat, poultry, and seafood products by retarding moisture loss, reducing lipid oxidation and discoloration, enhancing product appearance in retail packages by eliminating dripping, sealing in volatile flavors, functioning as carriers of food additives such as antimicrobial and antioxidant agents, and reducing oil uptake by battered and breaded products during frying. This paper reviews the application of various types of lipid, polysaccharide and protein-based edible coatings, as well as multicomponent edible coating systems, on meats, poultry, and sea foods.