Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Customers’ Involvement and Retention of Deposit Money Banks in Port Harcourt

The success of any firm depends on its ability to consistently satisfy and build total trust with its customers. This cannot be achieved if customers are not involved in the production and commercialization process of the organization anchored by market orientation. This study investigates the influence of customers’ involvement on customer retention of deposit money banks in Port Harcourt. Customers’ involvement has become pertinent for organizational success because it helps management to utilize a model good enough to explain, predict, create and deliver customers’ expectations and wishes for a particular brand. The study population had 324 officials of the 21 existing deposit money banks in Port Harcourt listed in the Nigerian stock exchange . A cross sectional survey research design was adopted; primary data was sourced from one hundred and sixty-six (166) staff of seven (7) deposit money banks in Port Harcourt through administering questionnaires to the sample of one hundred and seventy-nine (179). The data were analyzed and interpreted into meaningful information with descriptive and inferential statistical tools; percentages, bar chart, graph and regression analysis with the aid of Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) statistical software. Five equations where formulated, and their level of significance were tested. Model one (Ho1) with a correlation coefficient R value of 0.325 shows a positive but weak relationship between coaching and customer satisfaction in deposit money banks in Port Harcourt. Model two (Ho2) with a R 2 value of 0.428 also shows that the relationship between coaching and total trust is positive but weak. The R 2 value of model three (Ho3) is 0.708 which shows a positive and strong relationship between partnering and customer satisfaction and model four (Ho4) with a R 2 value 0.716 shows partnering and total trust are statistically significant so is model 5a,b (Ho5a,b) with R 2 values of 0.856 and 0.678 respectively. The study concludes that customers’ involvement does not have a strong positive, significant influence on customer retention without the aid of market orientation. Hence, the continuous improvement of market orientation is recommended to retain and involve customers in deposit money banks in Port Harcourt to create utility, delight that will keep profitable customers clued to the organization.
Surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease in China: a systematic review of two decades

Background/Aims The past decades have seen increasing incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in China. This article aimed to summarize the current status and characteristics of surgical management for IBD in China. Methods We searched PubMed, Embase, and Chinese databases from January 1, 1990 to July 1, 2014 for all relevant studies on the surgical treatment IBD in China. Eligible studies with sufficient defined variables were further reviewed for primary and secondary outcome measures. Results A total of 74 studies comprising 2,007 subjects with Crohn's disease (CD) and 1,085 subjects with ulcerative colitis (UC) were included. The percentage of CD patients misdiagnosed before surgery, including misdiagnosis as appendicitis or UC, was 50.8%±30.9% (578/1,268). The overall postoperative complication rate was 22.3%±13.0% (267/1,501). For studies of UC, the overall postoperative complication rate was 22.2%±27.9% (176/725). In large research centers (n>50 surgical cases), the rates of emergency operations for CD (P=0.032) and in-hospital mortalities resulting from both CD and UC were much lower than those in smaller research centers (n≤50 surgical cases) (P=0.026 and P <0.001, respectively). Regarding the changes in CD and UC surgery over time, postoperative complications (P=0.045 for CD; P=0.020 for UC) and postoperative in-hospital mortality (P=0.0002 for CD; P=0.0160 for UC) both significantly improved after the year 2010. Conclusions The surgical management of IBD in China has improved over time. However, the rates of misdiagnosis and postoperative complications over the past two decades have remained high. Large research centers were found to have relatively better capacity for surgical management than the smaller ones. Higher quality prospective studies are needed in China.
The fragmented warehouse: Location assignment for unit-load picking

In traditional warehouses, all items of the same stock-keeping units (SKUs) are usually co-located. However, the emergence of automatic identification and tracking technologies like RFID, enables us to consider free-form storage. We consider the strategy of storing identical items in a fragmented manner. The storage of identical SKUs in different locations creates new optimization opportunities by enabling more numerous picking route choices beyond standard unique location sets. Multiple storage location problems are not as well understood as the co-located storage case, and the complexity is greater. We present an abstract warehouse model to explore the storage location assignment problem in warehouse systems involving unit-load order picking and illustrate how multiple copies of items affect optimal location assignment. We introduce a provably optimal strategy involving a concept called ¿order pressure. ¿ We provide an optimal arrangement method for unit-load pick-orders and show how relative item probabilities affect clustering and distribution.
Implications of market liberalization and green energy regulation on power generation in Switzerland

This paper investigates how carbon taxes and feed-in tariffs as well as combinations of these regulations influence investment decisions in power generation under uncertainty. Moreover, we analyze the interactions between market power and regulation instruments. To this end, we numerically simulate a microeconomic investment model with a two-stage time structure, different kinds of uncertainty, market power settings and type-of-technology dependent cost structures for Switzerland using scenario analysis. Our results show that regulation instruments can significantly modify cost structures and change the respective profitability rankings of technologies. This alters the strategic behavior of the dominant market player and therewith overall investment patterns. The outcome of a policy regime is therefore strongly dependent on the degree of market liberalization and not only on the regulation instrument. Nevertheless, the share of electricity production derived from renewable energy sources is most effectively raised by a combination of political market interventions, including competition policy.
Urdu Named Entity Recognition and Classification System Using Artificial Neural Network

Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) is a process of identifying words and classifying them into person names, location names, organization names, and so on. In this article, we discuss the development of an Urdu Named Entity (NE) corpus, called the Kamran-PU-NE (KPU-NE) corpus, for three entity types, that is, Person, Organization, and Location, and marking the remaining tokens as Others (O). We use two supervised learning algorithms, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN), for the development of the Urdu NERC system. We annotate the 652852-token corpus taken from 15 different genres with a total of 44480 NEs. The inter-annotator agreement between the two annotators in terms of Kappa k statistic is 73.41%. With HMM, the highest recorded precision, recall, and f-measure values are 55.98%, 83.11%, and 66.90%, respectively, and with ANN, they are 81.05%, 87.54%, and 84.17%, respectively.
Beat noise cancellation in 2-D OCDMA systems using Optical Hard-limiter Array

We comprehensively investigate beat noise cancellation in 2-D OCDMA systems using OHL array considering the real shape of optical pulse. The receiver's noises and multiple access interference (MAI) as well as the impact of pulse propagation are all taken into account. The numerical results show that, when OHL array is employed, the performance of 2-D OCDMA systems is much improved compared with the other cases of without OHL array. In addition, the 2-D OCDMA systems using OHL array can meet the requirements of the optical access networks in both number of users and transmission length. For example, with the average transmitted power per chip is −12 dBm, the system can support 30 users at bit rate 1 Gbit/s and maximum transmission length of 33 km. Other necessary parameters for practical system design also can be found in this paper including required transmitted power and optimum threshold.
mll ortholog containing functional domains of human MLL is expressed throughout the zebrafish lifespan and in haematopoietic tissues

Infant leukaemia is an embryonal disease in which the underlying MLL translocations initiate in utero. Zebrafish offer unique potential to understand how MLL impacts haematopoiesis from the earliest embryonic timepoints and how translocations cause leukaemia as an embryonal process. In this study, a zebrafish mll cDNA syntenic to human MLL spanning the 5′ to 3′ UTRs, was cloned from embryos, and mll expression was characterized over the zebrafish lifespan. The protein encoded by the 35‐exon ORF exhibited 46·4% overall identity to human MLL and 68–100% conservation in functional domains (AT‐hooks, SNL, CXXC, PHD, bromodomain, FYRN, taspase1 sites, FYRC, SET). Maternally supplied transcripts were detected at 0–2 hpf. Strong ubiquitous early zygotic expression progressed to a cephalo‐caudal gradient during later embryogenesis. mll was expressed in the intermediate cell mass (ICM) where primitive erythrocytes are produced and in the kidney where definitive haematopoiesis occurs in adults. mll exhibits high cross species conservation, is developmentally regulated in haematopoietic and other tissues and is expressed from the earliest embryonic timepoints throughout the zebrafish lifespan. Haematopoietic tissue expression validates using zebrafish for MLL haematopoiesis and leukaemia models.
Continued cannabis use and outcome in first-episode psychosis: data from a randomized, open-label, controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE Cannabis use has been found to increase the risk of psychosis. It is unclear whether, after a first psychotic episode has occurred, continued cannabis use is associated with poor functional outcome of psychosis. METHOD As part of a randomized, open-label, controlled trial, the association of cannabis use and measures for psychopathology and social role functioning after 2 years of follow-up and for the recently proposed outcome measures of symptomatic remission, functional remission, and clinical recovery was explored in a group of 124 patients suffering from nonaffective first-episode psychosis (diagnosed according to DSM-IV and included from a catchment area in the Netherlands of 3.1 million inhabitants from October 2001 through December 2002). Other patient characteristics that were expected to be independently associated with outcome, among them alcohol and other drug use, were assessed at baseline. RESULTS Continued cannabis use was not associated with symptomatic or functional remission or clinical recovery. After 2 years, cannabis use was related to certain aspects of social role functioning (economic and social activities; explained variance 5.6% and 8.4%, respectively) but not to psychopathology (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale Positive, Negative, or General symptoms). CONCLUSIONS Our findings support the notion that continued cannabis use after the onset of a first-episode psychosis is correlated with worse social outcome and should be discouraged whenever possible, but its role in outcome is modest in comparison to other factors. TRIAL REGISTRATION Nederlands Trial Register: http://www.trialregister. nl (ID: NTR 374).
Hemophilia growth and development study. Design, methods, and entry data.

PURPOSE The study design, research questions, and baseline data are presented from a multicenter longitudinal epidemiologic investigation of the impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on three areas of functioning in children and adolescents with hemophilia: physical growth and sexual maturation, immune function, and neurological and neuropsychological functioning. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty-nine percent (n = 333) of a population of males between the ages of 6 and 19 years with moderate to severe hemophilia participated in a comprehensive baseline examination. Approximately 62% of the study group was HIV seropositive and 38% HIV seronegative. RESULTS Adjusted for age, HIV-positive participants were three times as likely as HIV-negative participants to exhibit declines in height-for-age attainment (p = 0.05), twice as likely to have delays in sexual maturation (p = 0.414), and more than three times as likely to exhibit antibody levels that were not indicative of prior exposure or vaccination (p < 0.001). In addition, analysis of a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests showed that HIV-positive participants were 50% more likely to show scores approximately 1 SD below expected levels in three of nine functional areas (p = NS) compared with HIV-negative participants. CONCLUSIONS Entry data for this study reveal a greater likelihood for HIV-positive children and adolescents with moderate to severe hemophilia to have abnormal growth, and to exhibit antibody levels not indicative of prior exposure to disease or vaccination, which could be attributed to HIV infection. Lowered neuropsychological test performance in both groups may be attributable to the deleterious effects of chronic illness. Data are being collected from a group of non-HIV infected non-hemophiliac siblings for comparison.
Ciprofloxacin interactions with imipenem and amikacin against multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

In vitro interactions of ciprofloxacin with imipenem and amikacin were evaluated by the killing-curve technique against 26 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains resistant to amikacin and resistant or moderately susceptible to ciprofloxacin and imipenem. Imipenem enhanced killing by ciprofloxacin in tests with 11 strains, whereas amikacin enhanced killing in tests with only 4 strains.
Finite-Time Attitude Tracking Control for Spacecraft Using Terminal Sliding Mode and Chebyshev Neural Network

A finite-time attitude tracking control scheme is proposed for spacecraft using terminal sliding mode and Chebyshev neural network (NN) (CNN). The four-parameter representations (quaternion) are used to describe the spacecraft attitude for global representation without singularities. The attitude state (i.e., attitude and velocity) error dynamics is transformed to a double integrator dynamics with a constraint on the spacecraft attitude. With consideration of this constraint, a novel terminal sliding manifold is proposed for the spacecraft. In order to guarantee that the output of the NN used in the controller is bounded by the corresponding bound of the approximated unknown function, a switch function is applied to generate a switching between the adaptive NN control and the robust controller. Meanwhile, a CNN, whose basis functions are implemented using only desired signals, is introduced to approximate the desired nonlinear function and bounded external disturbances online, and the robust term based on the hyperbolic tangent function is applied to counteract NN approximation errors in the adaptive neural control scheme. Most importantly, the finite-time stability in both the reaching phase and the sliding phase can be guaranteed by a Lyapunov-based approach. Finally, numerical simulations on the attitude tracking control of spacecraft in the presence of an unknown mass moment of inertia matrix, bounded external disturbances, and control input constraints are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed controller.
Research on the position control of a 1-DoF set-up powered by pneumatic muscles

A one-degree-of-freedom set-up driven by pneumatic muscles was designed and built in order to research the applicability of pneumatic artificial muscles in industrial applications, especially in wearable robots such as exoskeletons. The experimental set-up is very non-linear and very difficult to control properly. As a reference, an enhanced PID controller was designed. At the same time, a robust controller H∞ and a sliding-mode controller based on an observer were designed and implemented. After that, a new position controller based on an internal pressure loop for each pneumatic muscle was tuned up. Firstly, this paper presents the experimental set-up and the system's linear models. After that, it summarizes the enhanced PID controller, H∞ controller and the sliding-mode controller that have been designed. Then, it focuses on the position controller based on the internal pressure loops. Finally, the controllers are compared by means of experimental results.
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization

Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have demonstrated they can often 'reidentify' or 'deanonymize' individuals hidden in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental misunderstanding, which has assured us much less privacy than we have assumed. This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law, regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant attention. We must respond to the surprising failure of anonymization, and this Article provides the tools to do so.
Biphasic modulation of evoked [3H]D‐aspartate release by D‐2 dopamine receptors in rat striatal slices

It has been hypothesized that dopamine (DA) inhibits glutamate release from corticostriatal fibers via presynaptically located D‐2 DA receptors although the evidence presented in the literature has not been conclusive. In the present experiments, the effect of D‐2 receptor ligands on K+‐stimulated tritium release from rat striatal slices preloaded with the nonmetabolizable glutamate analog [3H]D‐aspartate ([3H]ASP) was measured. The D‐2 receptor antagonist S‐sulpiride increased stimulated [3H]ASP release by 75% (EC50 value = 240 nM) and the biologically less‐active isomer R‐sulpiride, although equally effective, was tenfold less potent. The D‐2 receptor agonists pergolide and (+)‐4‐propyl‐9‐hydroxynapthoxazine (+PHNO) inhibited [3H]ASP release at nM concentrations; however, this effect was small (20%). This low efficacy of the exogenous agonists was apparently due to competition by high concentrations of endogenous DA since the effect of pergolide was increased in rats whose striatal DA levels were decreased by 97%. These data support the hypothesis that D‐2 DA receptors modulate [3H]ASP release in an inhibitory fashion. However, when the agonists were tested at lower concentrations, [3H]ASP release was increased significantly by 20% in control rats and 60% in DA‐depleted rats. Both the facilitory and inhibitory effects of pergolide were blocked by 10 μM S‐sulpiride, suggesting D‐2 receptor mediation. In addition, the facilitory effect of pergolide was blocked by tetrodotoxin (TTX) and by the GABAA antagonist bicuculline, implying mediation of this D‐2 effect by an inhibitory GABAergic interneuron. The inhibitory effect of pergolide was decreased by the muscarinic antagonist atropine. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that receptors mediating both facilitory and inhibitory D‐2 modulation of [3H]ASP release are located on interneurons rather than directly on the corticostriatal afferents.
Evaluation of ethical position in eight CEE countries and Finland – results of an empirical research

The objective of this paper is to explore the ethical perspectives of respondents in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Finland, and, to this end, to show the similarities and differences among these nine, mainly Central and Eastern European countries. Their ethical positions are defined by examining the related cultural dimensions. The obvious differences in national history and culture may well suggest that ethical positions will differ in these countries, but we believe that our findings do contribute to a better understanding of moral standards in relation to business in the Central and East European (CEE) area.
Major depressive disorder and axis I diagnostic comorbidity.

BACKGROUND Recognition of comorbid conditions in patients presenting for the treatment of depression is clinically important because the presence of other disorders can influence treatment planning. In the present study, we examined the frequency of diagnostic comorbidity in psychiatric outpatients presenting for treatment of nonbipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) and patients' desire for treatment for the comorbid disorders. METHOD Four hundred seventy-nine psychiatric outpatients with DSM-IV nonbipolar MDD were evaluated with a modified version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. RESULTS Excluding nicotine dependence, at the time of the evaluation 64.1% (N = 307) of the patients met criteria for at least 1 of the 23 specific Axis I disorders, and more than one third (36.7%, N = 176) had 2 or more disorders. Anxiety disorders, as a group, were the most frequent current comorbid disorders (56.8%), and social phobia was the most frequent individual disorder. Including subthreshold conditions, the percentage of patients with at least 1 disorder increased to 73.5%. When the scope of assessment was expanded to include nicotine dependence, nicotine dependence was the most frequent lifetime individual disorder (38.2%) and the second most frequent current disorder (27.3%). There was considerable variability among the disorders regarding desire for treatment of the comorbid condition. CONCLUSION The majority of nonbipolar depressed patients have a current comorbid disorder, especially an anxiety disorder, although the actual rate of comorbidity depends on the breadth of the assessment.
Breast cancer risk estimates for relatives of white and African American women with breast cancer in the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences Study.

PURPOSE Family history is a well-recognized risk factor for breast cancer. Familial aggregation and segregation analyses have estimated breast cancer risk based on family history primarily for white women; such information is limited for African American (AA) women. The purpose of this report is to update breast cancer risk estimates associated with a family history of breast cancer for white and AA women. METHODS We used family cancer history from 2,676 white and 1,525 AA women with breast cancer (probands) in the population-based National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences (CARE) Study to estimate age-specific breast cancer risks in their first degree adult female relatives. Cumulative hazard curves were calculated for relatives of all probands using Cox proportional hazards models, and were stratified by the proband's race and age at diagnosis and number of relatives affected. RESULTS Breast cancer risks for white and AA women with a family history of the disease are similar through age 49 years, but diverge afterwards, with higher risks by age 79 in white women than in AA women (17.5% [SE, 0.9%] v 12.2% [SE, 1.1%]; P < .001). These risks increase as the number of affected first degree relatives increases, reaching 25.2% (SE, 3.4%) and 16.9% (SE, 4.0%) in white and AA women with more than one affected relative, respectively (P = .3). CONCLUSION We found age-related racial differences in breast cancer risk in women with a family history of breast cancer and have updated risk estimates for white and AA women for clinical use.