Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FEAT - A Simulation Tool for Electrothermal Analysis of Multifinger Bipolar Transistors

In this paper, we present a new simulation tool, which can be effectively adopted for the electrothermal analysis of multifinger bipolar transistors. The program is based on an optimized procedure for solving the nonlinear system of equations governing the electrothermal device behavior. Features like model accuracy, short computation time, flexibility, and user friendliness make the proposed software a good candidate for optimizing both reliability and performance of modern transistors with complex layouts
Enhancing Web-Based Kidney Disease Prevention Messages for Hispanics Using Targeting and Tailoring

The goal of this experiment was to assess the effects of targeted and tailored web-based messages on Hispanics' perceived susceptibility to kidney disease, and on their intention to talk to a doctor about kidney disease (the recommended behavior). Two-hundred-seventeen English-speaking Hispanics age 40 and older were recruited using an online survey service, and they were assigned randomly to read one of four messages (i.e., control, generic, targeted, and tailored). The hypothesis predicted a positive linear trend between type of message received and perceived susceptibility and intentions. Results were partially consistent with this hypothesis. Specifically, perceived susceptibility to kidney disease was highest in the tailored condition, followed by the generic and targeted conditions (which did not differ from each other), followed by the control condition where perceived susceptibility was the lowest. For behavioral intention, those in the tailored, targeted, and generic conditions did not differ from one an other; however, all three did report greater intentions to ask a doctor about kidney disease than those in the control condition. The theoretical and practical insights and implications of these findings are discussed.
Creating corporate entrepreneurship

This paper demonstrates how the various types of corporate entrepreneurship–individual managers, business renewal and Schumpeterian, or industry, leadership–share five ‘bundles’ of attributes. Each type can exist in one firm, though at different times as the common attributes change their role and relative importance. External and internal triggers for change are examined for a sample of 10 firms in 4 European industries. The data suggest a provocative conclusion: troubled firms in hostile environments can shed past behaviors, adopt policies fostering entrepreneurship and accumulate innovative resource bundles that provide a platform on which industry leadership can be built.
Review on Employee JOB Satisfaction

With the entrance to the WTO and the economic globalization speed-up, especially the rapid multinational corporations' development, competitions are becoming more and more fierce among enterprises. In this special historic period, talent becomes the key element deciding whether an enterprise can get into the market and be successful. At the same time, "human-centered management" is becoming an essantial idea in enterprises. How to enhance employees' JOB satisfaction to achieve human-centered management is an urgent issue to be solved indeed.
A Systematic Review of Studies on Cyber Physical System Security

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a system of systems which integrates physical system with cyber capability in order to improve the physical performance [1]. So far, it is being widely applied in areas closely related to national economy and people’s daily lives. Therefore, CPS security problems have drawn a global attention and an appropriate risk assessment for CPS is in urgent need. According to the researches and discussions in recent years, we believe that most researchers have already established a comprehensive understanding about CPS. This paper systematically introduced CPS’s conception, development and applications assisted. In addition, concerning about its aspects of safety and security, we also analyzed CPS’s risks and new requirements as an up-to-date technique brings. We elaborate the existing work and propose a research focus that has not been paid enough attention to, and proposed a security framework for CPS. At last, after providing a classic modeling and simulation method of CPS, we bring forward a new idea for accessing the experimental results into existing systems.
Miniature broadband four-way power divider in glass-based thin-film integrated passive device technology

In this work, a miniature broadband four-way power divider is proposed. By implementing the quarter-wavelength lines of a two-stage Wilkinson power divider using bridged T-coils, very compact size with no reduction in bandwidth can be achieved. It can then be applied to the design of four-way power divider with very compact size and broad bandwidth, which can be conveniently realized in the thin-film integrated passive device (TF-IPD) technology. Specifically, a proposed four-way power divider with a center frequency f0 = 1.6 GHz is implemented using the commercial glass-based TF-IPD process. The chip size is 4.6 mm×4.6 mm, which is only about 0. 0245λ0×0. 0245λ0 at f0. The fractional bandwidth for 15-dB input/output return losses and isolation is 113% with an in-band insertion loss within 1.75±0.6 dB.
Long-term culture of primary porcine mature hepatocytes in the medium supplemented with ascorbic acid 2-phosphate

In this study, the effect of ascorbic acid 2-phosphate (Asc2P) was tested on porcine and rat mature hepatocytes in vitro. a). Asc2P increased the porcine, but not rat, albumin secretion and mRNA expression. The enhancing effect of Asc2P on porcine C/EBP alpha mRNA was observed in porcine mature hepatocytes. These data suggested that Asc2P played an important role in the regulation of porcine albumin mRNA level. b). The enhancing effect of Asc2P on ammonium metabolic activity was also observed in porcine, but not rat, mature hepatocytes. The porcine ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) and arginase mRNAs were augmented by Asc2P, indicating that Asc2P had a direct effect on the urea cycle. c). The porcine collagen type I and type III mRNA, but not type XII mRNA, were detected as well, sugessting that Asc2P did not have the effect on the non-parenchymal hepatocytes to induce collagen type I and III mRNA expression. d). Our RT-PCR analysis demonstrated that the porcine hepatocytes expressed the sodium-ascorbate co-transporters SVCT1 and SVCT2, however, the intensities of porcine sodium-ascorbate co-transporters SVCT1 and SVCT2 bands were not changed markedly. These findings indicated that the Asc2P had no effect on SVCT1 and SVCT2 mRNA expression. e). The enhancing effect of Asc2P on porcine albumin mRNA was inhibited by staurosporine, a portein kinase inhibitor. We conclude that the enhanced albumin mRNA by Asc2P might be due to activation of tyrosine protein kinase and/or PKC and the Asc2P enhanced porcine albumin mRNA mainly at the transcriptional step.
Proactive Quality Control to Improve NWP , Reanalysis , and Observations

Massive amounts of observations are being assimilated into modern-era climate retrospective reanalyses and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). This makes very difficult to estimate the impact of a new observing system with Observing System Experiments (OSEs) because there is already so much information provided by other observations. In addition, the large volume of data prevents monitoring the impact of each observation with OSEs and hence the quality of reanalysis and NWP are subject to degradation due to occasional low quality observations. We propose using Proactive Quality Control (PQC, Hotta, 2014, UMD) based on Ensemble Forecast Sensitivity to Observations (EFSO, Kalnay et al, 2012, Tellus) to improve NWP, reanalyses, and observations. EFSO is used to efficiently examine the impact of all existing observing systems. We found in preliminary results that some observing systems (e.g., MODIS polar winds), even though their overall impact is beneficial, have a large detrimental impact under certain flow conditions, which EFSO can efficiently identify and thus help develop a better QC. A PQC method is being developed to improve the quality of NWP. Preliminary results show that the quality of the analysis and the subsequent forecast can be significantly improved by rejecting detrimental observations based on EFSO. The same PQC method can be extended to improve the quality of reanalysis, for which it is possible to explore Assimilation in the Unstable Subspace (AUS, Trevisan et al., 2010, QJRMS) for reanalysis in the EnKF framework. Early results show that AUS can substantially improve the quality of analysis (~5% in 5-day forecasts).
Community participation and social capital in tourism planning and management in a Thai context

Community participation and Social capital in tourism planning and management in a Thai context Community participation is now widely accepted as one important condition to achieve sustainable tourism development. The twelve aims of sustainable tourism determined by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) emphasises the significance of destination community, for example, local control, local prosperity and community well-being. This is because local people are the effected groups who are most directly impacted by tourism. Based on literature, generally community participation in developing countries appears to be at a low level, particularly in participation in tourism planning and decision making which largely affects community participation in tourism operation and management, and receiving benefits. Literature also reveals several obstacles impeding community participation. Therefore, this research aims to explore how community participation works in Thailand. Although the tourism industry in Thailand has grown enormously and rapidly within the last five decades, benefits from tourism are mostly restricted to large enterprises while local people participate at low levels and gain very little despite being burdened with negative impacts of tourism in their respective communities. This research explored issues surrounding community participation in tourism in two case study communities; Koh Samet, a community at the „consolidation stage‟ of Butler‟s Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC), and Mae Kam Pong, a community at the „involvement‟ stage of the TALC. Forms of community participation are assessed through three issues: participation in tourism planning and decision making; participation in tourism operation and management, and participation in benefits from tourism. Both qualitative methods (interviews, participant observation) and quantitative methods (surveys) were employed to collect data from two case study communities. „Social capital‟ was a central concept utilised to examine community participation in tourism development. This concept has been widely used in many fields at the community level, for example public health and natural resource management, however, there are few studies exploring the relationship of social capital and community tourism development. The literature that does exist suggests that communities with high levels of social capital are more likely to have extensive community participation in tourism development.
Green Marketing in the Top Publicly Traded Australian Organizations

This paper examines the inclusion of sustainability into marketing activities of the top Australian firms. The results found that almost half of organisations (46%) did not integrate sustainability or environmental issues into their mission statement. Of those that did include sustainability in their mission, few then integrated environmental issues into other areas of their activities, as reported on their corporate web sites. This suggests that while sustainability is frequently talked about within organisations as being important, it does not necessarily translate in to a strategic integration across activities. Firms might therefore be using environmental issues tactically, which could unfortunately result in superficial attempts at becoming environmentally sustainable.
Patents Versus Patients: Five years after the Doha Declaration

Five years ago, members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) signed a ministerial agreement to ensure that intellectual property rules would no longer obstruct developing countries’ efforts to protect public health. Since then, however, little has changed. Patented medicines continue to be priced out of reach for the world’s poorest people. Trade rules remain a major barrier to accessing affordable versions of patented medicines (generic medicines). The prevalence of debilitating and life-threatening diseases in poor countries is growing, but medicines are simply not available. Urgent action is needed.
Human emotion classifications for automotive driver using skin conductance response signal

Risky driving, speeding, and fatigue are the main causes of traffic accidents in Malaysia. Risky driving is an attitude associated with human states of emotion. Emotions detected using facial and body movements, sounds and physiological changes which required multiple and bulky instruments such as camera, voice recorder and sensors. In this study, skin conductance response (SCR) was investigated to overcome these drawback. The main goal of this study is to recognize human emotions by using a nonintrusive sensor and low-design-complexity protocols. Five emotions, namely, happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, and anger, were identified to have a close relationship with risky driving. The emotions were elicited by using image, video-audio, and video stimulus techniques and 960 Hz raw signal sampling rate was recorded. The video clip stimulus method showed 95.7% efficacy in detecting happiness and anger. The affective assessment classification rate obtained from SCR processing was more than 70% accuracy based on the off-line support vector machine classifier-processing algorithm. Overall results confirmed that the SCR signal should be considered in the future as one of the physiological signals in automated real-time emotions recognition systems.
Cryptographic techniques in redundant number systems

This paper proposes a modification to standard cryptographic techniques. The key idea is to mitigate side channel attacks by dynamically changing the encryption key with redundant numbers at each encryption step. Side channel attacks currently are a major vulnerability; they exploit the implementation of the cryptosystem rather than attacking the cryptosystem. Side channel attacks have a wide range of vectors, such as timing and power analysis, they manage to extract the key by detecting patterns in the execution. Redundant number systems allow numbers to have different representations whist evaluating to the same numeric value. The property is useful as the bit pattern of the key changes with each iteration whilst still transmitting an equivalent key. This redundant number system is to be implemented on an FPGA to show feasibility and measure performance.
Metropolitan Prosperity from Major League Sports in the CBD: Stadia Locations or Just Strength of the Central City? A Reply to Arthur C. Nelson

This comment on Nelson’s article, “Prosperity or Blight? A Question of Major League Stadia Locations,” which appears in this issue of Economic Development Quarterly, looks at the possible economic contribution of professional sports to a metropolitan area by summarizing earlier critiques of the literature on the topic, three regression studies that are similar to Nelson’s, and an article that relates central-city economic vitality to suburban economic vitality. The possibility of omitted variable bias in Nelson’s analysis is raised and the appropriate caution provided that sports stadia in a central business district may only be acting as a proxy for the overall strength of the central city. Nelson is commended for the work he has done, but more work along this line needs to be completed before specific public policy toward the desired locations of professional sports stadia is set.
Getafix: Workload-aware distributed interactive analytics

Distributed interactive analytics engines (Druid, Redshift, Pinot) need to achieve low query latency while using the least storage space. This paper presents a solution to the problem of replication of data blocks and routing of queries. Our techniques decide the replication level of individual data blocks (based on popularity, access counts), as well as output optimal placement patterns for such data blocks. For the static version of the problem (given set of queries accessing some segments), our techniques are provably optimal in both storage and query latency. For the dynamic version of the problem, we build a system called Getafix that dynamically tracks data block popularity, adjusts replication levels, dynamically routes queries, and garbage collects less useful data blocks. We implemented Getafix into Druid, the most popular open-source interactive analytics engine. Our experiments use both synthetic traces and production traces from Yahoo! Inc.’s production Druid cluster. Compared to existing techniques Getafix either improves storage space used by up to 3.5× while achieving comparable query latency, or improves query latency by up to 60% while using comparable storage.
Antibiotic prophylaxis in total hip arthroplastyEffects of antibiotic prophylaxis systemically and in bone cement on the revision rate of 22,170 primary hip replacements followed 0-14 years in the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register

We studied the effects of antibiotic prophylaxis, systemically and in bone cement, on the revision rate of cemented total hip arthroplasties (THAs) in data from the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register during the period 1987-2001. To have comparable groups, only THAs performed because of primary osteoarthritis, using cemented implants with documented good results, and high-viscosity cement were included. If systemic antibiotic prophylaxis had been given, only operations with cephalosporin or penicillin were selected. Cox-estimated survival relative revision risks (RR) are presented with adjustment for differences among groups in gender, age, cement brand, type of systemic antibiotic prophylaxis, type of prosthesis, type of operating room, and duration of the operation. Of 22,170 THAs studied, 696 THAs (3.1%) were revised, 440 (2.0%) for aseptic loosening and 102 (0.5%) for deep infection. We found the lowest risk of revision when the antibiotic prophylaxis was given both systemically and in the cement (15,676 THAs). Compared to this combined regime, patients who received antibiotic prophylaxis only systemically (5,960 THAs) had a 1.4 times higher revision rate with all reasons for revision as endpoint (p= 0.001), 1.3 times higher with aseptic loosening (p= 0.02) and 1.8 times higher with infection as the endpoint (p= 0.01). With the combined antibiotic regime, the results were better if antibiotics were given 4 times on the day of surgery (2,194 THAs), as compared to once (1,424 THAs) (p<0.001), twice (2,680 THAs) (p<0.001), or 3 times (5,522 THAs) (p= 0.02). Those who received systemic prophylaxis a single day 1, 2 or 3 times, as compared to 4 times, had a revision rate 1.8-3.5 times higher with all reasons for revision as endpoint, 1.5-3.1 times higher with aseptic loosening, and 2.7-6.8 times higher with infection. When we compared systemic prophylaxis 4 times in 1 day, no further improvement resulted in those given systemic prophylaxis for 2 days (1,928 THAs) or 3 days (717 THAs). In a subset of data including only the Charnley prosthesis, we obtained similar results. This observational study shows that the best results were recorded when antibiotic prophylaxis was given both systemically and in the bone cement, and if the systemic antibiotic was given 4 times on the day of surgery.
Impact of market entry and competitive structure on store switching/store loyalty

Managerial interest in building store loyalty has increased. Research addressing consumer store switching behaviour is limited, however, and the need for new knowledge is considerable. This exploratory field study uses data collected in four markets under varying competitive conditions to investigate consumer response to market entry of new retail chains. Results suggest that the size of the switcher segment is a function of the degree of differentiation, number of new competitors and variety of strategies brought to the market on critical store choice dimensions. When examined in the aggregate, switchers do not differ dramatically from non-switchers in terms of store choice criteria. However, segmentation of switchers by specific store shopped most often shows that these individuals responded to new strategies executed by attacking chains. Empirical results are used to formulate research propositions related to the impact of competitive differentiation on store switching behaviour.
Integrin x 2 fl-independent activation of platelets by simple collagen-like peptides : collagen tertiary ( triple-helical ) and quaternary ( polymeric ) structures are sufficient alone for x 2 f 1-independent platelet reactivity

The platelet reactivities of two simple collagen-like synthetic peptides, Gly-Lys-Hyp-(Gly-Pro-Hyp)10-Gly-Lys-Hyp-Gly and Gly-Cys-Hyp-(Gly-Pro-Hyp)10-Gly-Cys-Hyp-Gly, were investigated. Both peptides adopted a stable triple-helical conformation in solution. Following cross-linking, both peptides proved to be highly platelet-aggregatory, more active than collagen fibres, inducing aggregation at concentrations as low as 20 ng/ml. These peptides formed microaggregates in solution, and crosslinking was thought to stabilize these structures, allowing expression of their platelet reactivity at 37 'C. Like collagen fibres,
Ejaculatory Disorders Caused by Alpha-1 Blockers for Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Suggestive of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Comparison of Naftopidil and Tamsulosin in a Randomized Multicenter Study

Introduction: To investigate the incidence of ejaculatory disorders caused by naftopidil and tamsulosin in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Materials and Methods: Ninety-five patients with LUTS/BPH who had International Prostate Symptom Scores (IPSS) of 8 or more were randomly assigned to receive naftopidil (50 mg/day, n = 48) or tamsulosin (0.2 mg/day, n = 47). Before and 12 weeks after treatment, a questionnaire was used to evaluate ejaculation. Results: Among men who had sexual activity during the 12 weeks, the proportion who reported an abnormal feeling on ejaculation was higher in the tamsulosin group (16.7%) than in the naftopidil group (7.4%), although the difference was not significant (p = 0.402). The proportion of men who reported reduced ejaculatory volume after treatment was significantly higher in the tamsulosin group (96.0%) than in the naftopidil group (73.1%, p = 0.0496). On the other hand, the improvements in IPSS and the quality of life index were significantly higher in the tamsulosin group than in the naftopidil group. Conclusions: Tamsulosin may cause a higher incidence of ejaculatory disorders than naftopidil, although the efficacy of 0.2 mg tamsulosin may be better than that of 50 mg naftopidil.
Moving impedance matching analysis for three-coil wireless power transfer system in mid-range

There is a bottleneck for traditional two-coil wireless power transfer (2C-WPT) system for short transfer distance and low efficiency. In this paper, a novel three-coil WPT(3C-WPT) system based on moving impedance matching window is proposed to increase transfer distance to mid-range. System efficiency is further promoted by optimizing relay coil. Acting as a moving impedance matching window, relay coil improves the flexibility of selecting proper reflection impedance. Once the overall optimization goal is set up, best parameters of the impedance matching can be determined with the given optimization design procedure. Derived conclusions undoubtedly play an instructive role in the design and application of proposed three-coil structure WPT system.