Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysing the Moderating Effect of Customer Loyalty on Long Run Repurchase Intentions

One of the controversies in existing marketing literatures is on how to retain existing and new customers to have repurchase intention in the long-run; however, empirical answer to this question is scanty in existing studies. Thus, this study investigates the moderating effect of consumer loyalty on long-run repurchase intentions in telecommunication industry using Lagos State environs. The study adopted field survey research design using questionnaire to elicit responses from 250 respondents who were selected using random and stratified random sampling techniques from the telecommunication industry in Lagos State, Nigeria. The internal consistency of the research instrument was verified using the Cronbach’s alpha, the result of 0.89 implies the acceptability of the internal consistency of the survey instrument. The test of the research hypotheses were analyzed using Pearson Product Method of Correlation (PPMC), simple regression analysis and inferential statistics with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science version 20.0 (SPSS). The study confirmed that customer satisfaction has a significant relationship with customer loyalty in the telecommunication industry. Furthermore, service quality has a significant relationship with customer loyalty to a brand; loyalty programs have a significant relationship with customer loyalty to a network operator in Nigeria and customer loyalty has a significant effect on the long run repurchase intentions of the customer. The study concluded that one of the determinants of long term profitability of a business entity is the long run repurchase intentions of its customers which hinges on the level of brand loyalty of the customer. Thus, it was recommended that service providers in Nigeria should improve on factors like customer satisfaction, service quality, and loyalty programs in order to increase the loyalty of their customer to their brands thereby increasing their repurchase intentions. Key words: Customer loyalty, long run repurchase intentions, brands, service quality, customer satisfaction.
Emission of Visible Light by Hot Dense Metals

Author(s): More, R.M. | Abstract: We consider the emission of visible light by hot metal surfaces having uniform and non-uniform temperature distributions and by small droplets of liquid metal. The calculations employ a nonlocal transport theory for light emission, using the Kubo formula to relate microscopic current fluctuations to the dielectric function of the material. We describe a related algorithm for calculating radiation emission in particle simulation of hot fusion plasmas.
Utilization of seston flux over a mussel bed

A combined sampling approach was used to address the topic of utilization of the nearbed seston field over a natural bed of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis. Samples taken by a new device, the Benthic Organic Seston Sampler (BOSS), were combined with near-bed current information and in situ clearance rate measurements to assess the effect which the Mytilus bed had on the horizontal seston flux. During mid ebb-tide the mussels were capable of processing the flow within 7 cm of the seabed, but only utilized about 20 % of the seston flux available within that region. The possibility that significant refiltration occurs suggests that the actual effective 'feeding zone' of the mussels was on the order of 3.5 cm. Chlorophyll and carbon analyses and direct cell counts indicated that the mussels fed preferentially on high concentrations of resuspended benthic diatoms, depleting the bottom 3 to 5 cm of this rich food resource.
Feature Extraction From Face Images Using SIFT and MLBP Algorithm

— Humans often use the faces to recognize and similar recognition can enable automatically now by advancement in computing capabilities. The recognition process has now been matured into a science of sophisticated mathematical representation and matching process than early face recognition have been used simple geometric models. Face recognition has received a great deal of attention over the last few years because of its many applications in various domains. The main objective is to extract the distinctive invariance features from the Heterogeneous images that can be use to perform reliable matching between probe and gallery images. The features are highly distinct, so that single feature can be correctly matched with high probability against a large database of features from many images. Initially we remove the noise from the image. To remove the noise present in the image we use three filters. Then to extract distinct features by using SIFT and MLBP.
On Fatigue Striations z

This paper provides a review of the research that has led to our current understanding of the process of fatigue striation formation. An important question addressed is whether or not at low stress intensity values, fatigue cracks can propagate intermittently in steels and aluminum alloys. It is concluded that there is no valid evidence for propagation on other than a cycle-by-cycle basis.
Vanet Challenges of Availability and Scalability

In this large growing world, vehicles on the road have increased in recent years. Due to the huge volume of these vehicles on the road, potential threats and the road accidents are also increasing day by day. To overcome these threats, wireless technology called VANET (Vehicular Ad hoc Network) has been designed. Through this wireless technology, vehicles exchange some messages to avoid bad circumstances. In VANET, a warning message can be generated and propagated to the other vehicles to notify their drivers about the congestion zone or about an accident. There are many issues in the VANET which need to be improved to make the communication fast, secure and effective. In this paper, we have analyzed many issues of VANET including security, scalability, mobility and different types of attacks. In our proposed solution, we have used GSM (Global System and Mobile Communication) technology in combination with WiFi technology to resolve the mobility and scalability issue. We have also implemented AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accountability) model in our proposed solution.
Plant of the Juglandaceae family as alternative to antibiotic growth promoters in broiler production.

Two experiments were conducted in order to evaluate the effect of the dietary addition of a plant belonging to the Juglandaceae family and strongly inhibiting in vitro growth of Clostridium perfringens, on the production results of male broilers (240 birds, Ross 308). From d11 to d28, the birds received a diet with a high content of fishmeal and animal fat, which was formulated to increase the intestinal growth of Clostridium perfringens. The diet was fed either not supplemented or supplemented with 1% freeze-dried plant material (green leaves) or salinomycin (60 mg/kg feed). At 28 d, the dietary inclusion of the plant material increased the body weight (1338 g vs. 1165g, P< 0.01) and improved the FCR (kg feed/kg body weight, 1.38 vs. 1.52, P<0.001). Further, in one of the two experiments the intestinal Clostridium perfringens counts were numerically reduced in the range of 1.2-1.5 log units. The effect of salinomycin with respect to the improvement of the production results and intestinal growth inhibition of Clostridium perfringens was superior to that of the plant material. However, it is concluded that this plant of the Juglandaceae family has a potential as an alternative to antibiotic growth promoters. __________________________________________________________________________________
‘Sex, drugs and snowboarding’: (il)legitimate definitions of taste and lifestyle in a physical youth culture

This paper examines the hedonistic social interactions and lifestyles embraced by many contemporary physical youth cultural participants via the case of snowboarding. Drawing upon an array of primary and secondary sources collected over seven years, I present a three-part analysis of the hedonistic party lifestyle, alcohol and drug consumption (for both pleasure and performance), and the hyper-sexuality, at the core of the snowboarding culture. Engaging Bourdieu’s theory of distinction, and particularly his concepts of field, practice and taste, in dialogue with my empirical evidence, I reveal the definitions of pleasure and the hedonistic snowboarding lifestyle as highly contested. While many cultural participants are complicit to hierarchical and/or violent attempts to regulate the dominant tastes and practices within the snowboarding field, others are engaging in an array of symbolic and embodied struggles to (re)define meanings of ‘pleasure’ in the snowboarding lifestyle and après snow culture more broadly.
Preparation of Emulsified Encapsulated Nanoparticles of Bovine Serum Albumin of Bound Glucose Oxidase and their Application in Soft Drinks/ Non-Alcoholic Beverage

Microspheres are nanoparticles in which the glucose oxidase was encapsulated by emulsification and immobilized through covalent coupling by glutaraldehyde which is an excellent cross linking agent. Biodegradation of these emulsified encapsulated nanoparticles of bovine serum albumin of bound glucose oxidase was carried out by the proteases such as trypsin, chymotrypsin and papain. Chymotrypsin was found to be the best proteolytic enzyme among these proteases. These nanoparticles of bovine serum albumin of bound glucose oxidase were converted the glucose into gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide in the delivery system which in turn minimized the utilization of the excess of glucose by the microbes/pathogens as a substrate for their growth. Coca-Cola has approximately half of the world market share and called as industrial player. And, then Pepsi sales stood at US $36 billion per market capitalization and thus the value sales of soft drinks/ non-alcoholic beverages will increase 27% by 2014 worldwide. Glucose is the major content of these drinks. Further, these glucose oxidase bound emulsified nanoparticles of bovine serum albumin along with chymotrypsin were used in soft drinks/non-alcoholic beverages which made the drinks free from turbidity and opalescence as well as to maintain the pH as acid regulator.
Studying Solutions of a System of PDE Through Representations of D 4

This paper is concerned with applications of representations of the Lie group of class G2 to PDE. A realization of all irreducible finitedimensional representations of G2 is found and their application to a study of solutions of some systems of partial differential equations is given. Mathematics Subject Classification: 22E47,35G05,43A75
Critical region of the superfluid transition in the BCS-BEC crossover

We determine the size of the critical region of the superfluid transition in the BCS-BEC crossover of a three-dimensional fermion gas, using a renormalization-group approach to a bosonic theory of pairing fluctuations. For the unitary Fermi gas, we find a sizable critical region $[T_G^-,T_G^+]$, of order $T_c$, around the transition temperature $T_c$ with a pronounced asymmetry: $|T_G^+-T_c|/|T_G^--T_c|\sim8$. The critical region is strongly suppressed on the BCS side of the crossover but remains important on the BEC side.
Monte Carlo Simulation for the Morphology and Kinetics of Spherulites and Shish-Kebabs in Isothermal Polymer Crystallization

Monte Carlo method is used to capture the evolution of spherulites and shish-kebabs and to predict the crystallization kinetics in isothermal polymer crystallization. Effects of nucleation density and growth rate of spherulites, nucleation density, and length growth rate of shish-kebabs, respectively, on crystallization are investigated. Results show that nucleation densities of both spherulites and shish-kebabs strongly affect crystallization rate as well as morphology. An increase in nucleation density of either spherulites or shish-kebabs leads to a quicker crystallization rate and a smaller average spherulite size. It is also shown that nucleation density of shish-kebabs has a stronger impact on crystallization rate. Growth rate of spherulites and length growth rate of shish-kebabs also have significant effect on crystallization rate and morphology. An increase in growth rate of spherulites or length growth rate of shish-kebabs also speeds up the crystallization rate; additionally, a decrease in growth rate of spherulites or an increase in length growth rate of shish-kebabs results in a more highly anisotropic shish-kebab structure and a smaller average size of spherulites. Results also show that the effect of growth rate of spherulites is more important than the effect of length growth rate of shish-kebabs on crystallization.
Teachers' and students' acceptance and use of learning to learn activities during classroom instruction

L'interet de longue date pour le principe de la regulation d'apprendre comme approche appropriee aidant les etudiants a acquerir des strategies d'apprentissage et de reflexion et a stimuler le travail autonome n'a ete realise que superficiellement en classe. L'implementation efficace de l'approche de la regulation d'apprendre depend principalement de la conviction et des applications concretes tant de la part des professeurs que de la part des etudiants. Dans cette etude, ces convictions et applications sont analysees a la lumiere d'une situation de classe dans laquelle le principe regulation d'apprendre est mis en pratique. En ce qui concerne les professeurs, cette etude se concentre sur trois questions principales: la conviction des professeurs du principe regulation d'apprendre, leur capacite presumee de realiser une approche particuliere de la regulation d'apprendre dans leur classe et leur facon concrete d'enseigner. Les convictions des professeurs seront confrontees aux opinions des etudiants et a leur facon reelle d'etudier. Les resultats demontrent que les professeurs regardent regulation d'apprendre avant tout d'une perspective 'competence' et non comme une activite integree pour laquelle ils se sentent responsables. Les professeurs ont tendance a surestimer l'influence de leur propre facon d'enseigner sur le developpement du travail autonome des etudiants. Les eleves considerent regulation d'apprendre comme une entite a part entiere, peu lie aux devoirs habituels qu'ils rencontrent.
Evaluating the Effect of a Policy Change to Hospital Productivity: 80 Hours Work Restriction on Medical Residents

This paper uses a two-year panel dataset on hospitals from the American Hospital Association (AHA) to evaluate the effect a policy change has on the marginal product of medical residents. A weighted 2SLS approach is used to estimate a semi-parametric production function. A policy restricting medical residents to work no more than 80 hours a week is found to result in a net loss of 14 inpatient days per resident annually, which is not statistically different from zero. In addition, the model presented in this paper performs better than past models when estimating first-order effects of inputs in the hospital production function.
Discovering the unexpected:A Comparative Review of Creativity Frameworks in Organizationsto Creativity Learning in the Adult Education Domain

Theorizing from the creativity literature within the adult education & organizational management domains, there is a relationship between society, the individual, those in power & the organization. At the intersection of these, Creativity manifests. This introduces the SIPO Creativity Relationships Model. Background Context Today, organizations – particularly those in higher education are faced with ever increasing complexity, economic challenges, rapid technology changes, the shrinking of the world through globalization and increasing diversity of adult needs. The question is how can organizations face the challenges ahead? In an extensive analysis of data gathered through in-depth one-on-one interviews with 1541 global CEOs, IBM found that creativity is the top leadership quality needed today to cope with and to create change (IBM 2010). Inspired by this, this study is a part of a larger investigation into the intersection of creativity, change, innovation and learning. Thematic Comparison Creativity is not an insulated topic, but interacts with a variety of other concepts. The thrust here is on themes in reviewed publications focusing on creativity in organizations & higher education. Accelerating Complexity Creating Life Long Learning Needs A techno-economic perspective has become the driving force for growth in modern civilization. The five historical activities that individuals engage in to assist with human civilization progression are Discovery, Invention, Creativity, Innovation & Development. The socio-economic dynamics of these are stronger & faster than ever (Badran 2007). Society’s moving from reproductive learning in an industrialized society rapidly through performative learning (which links creativity, action & problem solving) to the late modernity age of super-complexity which adds communication, increased collaboration and direct democracy to organizational management (Alkeaid 2007). Knowledge & skills have become the drivers of innovation & change; therefore, organizational performance is talent & creativity dependent. The increasing complexity also leads to higher need for creative & cultural education to develop the attitudes & skills required so employees can adapt to survive; thus, creating the imperative for them to become lifelong learners (Simmons & Thompson 2008, van der Veen 2006). Sternberg (2009) states the WICS model (wisdom, intelligence and creativity synthesized) for liberal education addresses that the citizens of the world need creativity to form a vision of where they want to go.
The Influence of Nutrition on the Water Relations of Salmonella oranienburg.

The growth rates of Salmonella oranienburg have been determined in four different basal media in which the water activity (a,v) was controlled by addition of salts and by addition of sucrose. In three complex media the lower limit for growth was between 0·94 and 0·95 aw but in a simple defined medium the limiting aw for growth was between 0·96 and 0·97. When an amino acid mixture containing proline and methionine was added to salt-adjusted simple medium, growth occurred at 0·96 aw' Subsequent addition of eight watersoluble vitamins extended the growth range to 0·95 aw'
Effect of polar nanoregions on giant electrostriction and piezoelectricity in relaxor ferroelectrics

Relaxor ferroelectrics are characterized by a large electrostrictive response and a giant piezoelectric effect in the applied electric field. So far, the microscopic origin of these phenomena has not been fully understood. It has recently been suggested that the leading mechanism of electrostriction in PbsMg1/3Nb2/3dO3 (PMN) and related systems are the charge-transfer fluctuations occurring in Mg-rich regions on localized pairs and/or triads of Nb and O ions. 1 Meanwhile, nanosized polar regions, which are known to exist in relaxors, are believed to be responsible for the relaxor freezing phenomena observed in the linear and nonlinear dielectric response and in NMR line shape. Thus, the question arises whether the same polar nanoregions may also play a key role in electrostriction and piezoelectricity. To answer this question we use a semimicroscopic approach, which is based on the polar nanoregion picture in the framework of the socalled spherical random bond‐random-field(SRBRF) model of relaxors. 2‐5 We derive an expression for the electrostrictive coefficients in terms of a microsocopic stress coupling term in the Hamiltonian. The field and temperature dependence of piezoelectric coefficients is then calculated using the SRBRF model. The starting point of the present discussion is the SRBRF model of relaxor ferroelectrics, 2‐5 which is based on the interacting polar nanoregions picture. The model Hamiltonian is written as
Concept representations in Geographic Information Retrieval as re-ranking strategies

Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographic locations. Traditional IR machines are perfectly able to retrieve the majority of relevant documents for most geographical queries, but they have severe difficulties generating a pertinent ranking of the retrieved results, which leads to poor performance. An important reason for this ranking problem has been a lack of information. Therefore some GIR research groups have tried to fill this gap using robust geographical resources (i.e. a geographical ontology), while other groups with the same aim have used relevance feedback techniques instead. This paper explores the use of random indexing (RI; a vector space methodology that generates semantic context vectors for words based on co-occurrence data) and holographic reduced representations (HRRs; a novel representation for textual structure) as re-ranking mechanisms for GIR. We show the feasibility of these techniques for re-ranking documents in GIR. Our results report an improvement of 7 % in mean average precision (MAP) when compared to the traditional vector space model.
pH–Assisted Strength Gain Projection for Green Cement Mortar Composite Containing Marble Powder By-Product: Substitution and Intergrinding Methods

This manuscript reports the effects of substitution and interground of MP on the pH of cement and bending and compressive strengths of mortar composite as well as strength projection of green mortar composite from pH of green cement. It also presents the relationships between pH of cement and strength of mortar composite to compute strength gain from pH of cement. The feature of sample made with MP–cement is examined and compared to those made with pure Portland cement– including bending and compressive strengths at 7d, 28d, and 90d, and pHs of cement. Projection of strength gain from pHs of cement is also discussed, and the numeric equations, the coefficients, and the r squares, which are essential elements of the strength projection, are given in the experimental study proficiently. Regularly, this study results indicate that the projection for strength gains of green mortar composite could be computed from pHs of green cement properly.
An Advanced Control Architecture for Autonomous Mobile Robots: Modeling Intentions and Persuasions

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel control architecture for autonomous mobile robots, based on the explicit representation of robot intentions and persuasions. The proposal relies on two basic assumptions: i) robot mental states (namely intentions and persuasions) are modeled as active autonomous entities; ii) the robot control architecture is conceived as a multi-agent system, where mental entities communicate, cooperate and conflict, giving rise, through their interactions, to a globally intelligent behavior. The paper discusses first the basic motivations for the proposal, introducing the concept of active mental entity and characterizing intentions and persuasions. Then a detailed description of the organization of the control architecture is provided, together with an outline of its operation. The potential of the proposed architecture is finally demonstrated through an application example concerning a department mail-delivery robot.