Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of Total Quality Management Implementation and Supply Chain Management Capability on Customer Capital

Using structural equation modeling, this study attempts to find the relationship among total quality management (TQM) implementation, supply chain management (SCM) capability, and customer capital (CC) so as to highlight a number of concerns with regard to this type of research. A serious methodology is employed to create a reliable and valid measurement instrument. The researchers collected 830 valid questionnaires from manufacturing companies in Taiwan, and results show that TQM implementation has a positive influence on SCM capability and on CC. Based on this finding, this research suggests that organizations are more concerned about continuous improvement and customer focus than product innovation, benchmarking, supplier quality management, employee training, top management commitment, employee involvement, and compensation system.Results also show that SCM capability has a positive influence on CC and suggests that organizations should focus more on inside-out capabilities than spanning capabilities, and outside-in capability. This study sheds light that an organization should develop TQM implementation and SCM capabilities in order to create CC and achieving organizational goals.
We conceptualize a taste regime as a discursively constructed system of practice based on aesthetic differentiation. Taste regimes are perpetuated by marketplace institutions such as magazines, web sites and transmedia narratives and filter into daily practice through continuous engagement. Consumer

We conceptualize a taste regime as a discursively constructed system of practice based on aesthetic differentiation. Taste regimes are perpetuated by marketplace institutions such as magazines, web sites and transmedia narratives and filter into daily practice through continuous engagement. Consumers’ engagement with taste regimes can institute an idealized aesthetic order that mediates their relationships with objects, what they do with these objects, and how they assign meanings to them. We situate our inquiry in the context of a popular design blog and the community that it has attracted. Through a narrative analysis of the blog, supplemented with interviews with readers and participant observation, we identify three dispersed practices through which a regime becomes part of the everyday consumption: problematization, instrumentalization, and ritualization. Our findings demonstrate how aesthetics are linked to practical knowledge and become materialized into routine consumption patterns and preferences.
Optimum ? User-centric Evaluation of Adaptation Logics for HTTP Adaptive Streaming

HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is the de-facto standard for over-the-top (OTT) video streaming services. It allows to react to fluctuating network conditions on short time scales by adapting the video bit rate in order to avoid stalling of the video playback. With HAS the video content is split into small segments of a few seconds playtime each, which are available in different bit rates, i.e., quality level representations. Depending on the current conditions, the adaptation algorithm on the client side chooses the appropriate quality level and downloads the respective segment. This allows to avoid stalling, which is seen as the worst possible disturbance of HTTP video streaming, to the most possible extend.Nevertheless, theuserperceivedQuality of Experience (QoE) may be affected, namely by playing back lower qualities and by switching between different qualities. Therefore, adaptation algorithms are desired which maximize theuser’sQoE for the currently availablenetwork resources. Many downloading strategies have been proposed in literature, but a solid user-centric comparison of these mechanisms among each other and with the global optimum is missing. The major contributions of this work are as follows. A proper analysis of the influence of quality switches and played out representations on QoE is conducted by means of subjective user studies. The results suggest that, in order tooptimizeQoE, first, the quality level of the video stream has to be maximized and second, the number of quality switches should beminimized. Based on our findings, aQoEoptimizationproblem is formulatedand the performance of our proposed algorithm is compared to other algorithmsand to theQoE-optimal adaptation.
Risk factors for stroke and choice of oral anticoagulant in atrial fibrillation Authors

Purpose To investigate risk factors for stroke in patients initiating oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation in Norway and their association with receiving DOACs versus warfarin. Methods From nationwide registries we identified naïve users initiating treatment with warfarin, dabigatran, rivaroxaban or apixaban for atrial fibrillation from 2010 to 2015 in Norway. We studied temporal changes in the CHA2DS2-VASc score and its component risk factors. We used multiple logistic regression to identify CHA2DS2-VASc risk factors associated with receiving DOACs versus warfarin in 2015. Results From 2010 to 2015, the yearly number of new oral anticoagulant users increased from 7588 to 13344. All new users initiated warfarin in 2010, while 86% initiated a DOAC in 2015. The mean CHA2DS2-VASc score decreased from 3.2 (SD 1.7) to 3.1 (SD 1.6) in the same period. Vascular disease (0.56 [0.49-0.63]), congestive heart failure (OR 0.65 [95% CI 0.58-0.72]) and diabetes (0.83 [0.73-0.95]) decreased the odds of receiving DOACs instead of warfarin, and ischemic stroke/transient ischemic attack/arterial thromboembolism (1.31 [1.12-1.54]), age 65-74 (1.23 [1.06-1.43]) and female sex (1.22 [1.10-1.36]) increased it. Age ≥75 (reference age <65) and hypertension had no impact. Conclusions The uptake of DOACs was rapid and spurred an increase in new users of oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation from 2010 to 2015 in Norway. The mean CHA2DS2-VASc score did not change substantially during this period. Vascular disease, heart failure and diabetes were associated with initiation of warfarin, and previous stroke, age 65-74 and female sex with initiation of DOACs.
A Panel Vector Autoregression Analysis of Sudden Stops and Banking Crises

Recent empirical literature on sudden stops and banking crises suggests the interaction of these crises is particularly harmful to the real economy. Despite this, very little empirical research has been undertaken to decipher the interplay between these crises. This paper contributes to this literature by applying a panel vector autoregression to examine how these crises interact via domestic credit, capital flows, and output growth. This research finds evidence supporting the view that sudden stops occurring with banking crises are more harmful than sudden stops occurring by themselves. It also finds that during the joint occurrences of these crises domestic credit increases during the onset of a sudden stop, but this expansion in credit results in an adverse impact on output growth. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that the financial intermediaries are unable to allocate credit efficiently hence why the interaction of sudden stops and banking crises is above and beyond their individual effects.
2 - Pilotage de procédures de traitement d'images pour la description morphologique de galaxies

This paper is concerned with the technics ofartificial intelligence applied to the field of image processing . More precisely the problem studied here is semantical integration of image processing programs . In semantical integration ofprograms, the fonctionality of the programs, and the way to optimize their use are expressed ; this allows the use of the programs in an automatic, robust, and flexible way . First, the shell of expert systems used for the application, OCAPI, is described . Then the application on morphological description of galaxies is detailed : the design of the global system, the knowledge base of the expert system PROGAL, and an illustrated session of the expert system .
Emerging Markets Queries in Finance and Business Advantages and Limits for Tourism Development in Rural Area ( Case Study Ampoi and Mure Valleys )

Rural areas have been modified during centuries of agriculture practice and, in the last decades, of other economic activities like mineral extractions and processing industry, including also touristic activity. A challenge for ensuring sustainable development in rural areas is to cover the development needs of the community. Tourism has been indicated as a good development strategy for Romanian rural areas. The article is presenting the advantages and limits in supporting touristic activity in the framework of Leader approach at the level of a Local Group of Action in Romania, Alba and Hunedoara Counties. Leader approach is offering limited support for rural area in order to encourage cultural activities, architecture rehabilitation, valorizing natural landscape and rural tourism. Through its direct and indirect impacts, tourism attracts significant foreign exchange, investment and know-how and stimulates the local economy, with a significant multiplier effect on many other areas of the economy. In the same time, it has to be paid a great attention to the effects generated upon the rural communities by the tourists’ activities. Certainly, tourism development should be considered with all financial, material and human efforts that have to be done in order to support it. Tourism development in rural area should be strategically planned and its negative effects on nature and social-cultural environment of tourism areas should be limited. © 2015 Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Emerging Markets Queries in Finance and Business local organization.
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as Host in Production of Recombinant Proteins for Medical Uses

* Author for correspondence: Raha Ahmad Raus Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Kulliyyah of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, 50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Email: rahaar@iium.edu. my* Abstract. Microalga as a new preferred bioreactor system have many advantages compared with other bioreactor system as it is edible and does not contain endotoxins for human consumption. The green microalga species Chlamydomonas reinhardtii possesses many beneficial properties that have made it as model organism in photosynthetic related studies, biofuel production and also as eukaryotic host in heterologous proteins production. Recombinant proteins expressed in C. reinhardtii have been produced for the medical applications as hormones, vaccines, and antibodies. Production of these therapeutic proteins in microalgae has enhanced the yield of the proteins expressed compared to the traditional cell tissue culture methods which normally are more expensive in the cost of production. In this review, the recombinant microalgae developed by genetic transformation of both nuclear and chloroplast genomes are discussed, recombinant proteins that had been produced for medical purposes in C. reinhardtii are presented and the transformation methods as well as strategies for better protein expression in C. reinhardtii are also discussed.
Detection and Classification of Refrigeration Units in a Commercial Environment : Comparing Neural Networks to Unsupervised Clustering

Non-intrusive load monitoring aims to estimate the power consumption of individual appliances from a single meter. Several methods have been proposed to solve this blind source separation problem, such as clustering, hidden Markov models, or neural networks. We present two approaches for detecting and classifying refrigeration units in a commercial environment. The first one is based on unsupervised event detection and the second one on neural networks with convolutional layers. We show that both approaches can accurately recognize power cycles of refrigeration units. The extracted cycles can then be used to reduce total energy consumption or for predictive maintenance by identifying units with an increased risk of failure.
Thermal and Piezoelectric Stress in Operating AlGaN / GaN HFET Devices and Effect of the Fe Doping in the GaN Buffer Layer

We investigated the effect of self-heating and applied source-drain voltage (Vds) on the mechanical strain/stress generated in operating AlGaN/GaN HFET devices. Strain/stresses in devices were probed using Raman optical spectroscopy and the data were compared with electrical and thermo-mechanical numerical modeling. The vertical electric field and related piezoelectric stress near the drain-gate region were found to be significantly influenced by applied voltage and doping in the buffer. A higher level of buffer doping increases the piezoelectric stress in the AlGaN/GaN interface, i.e., 2DEG channel region. On the other hand, the determined thermal stress generated by non-uniform self-heating is opposite in sign to the piezoelectric stress and can result in a reduction of the net stress in the operated device.
Antimicrobial activity and phytochemical screening of Solanum incanum fruit extract against clinical samples of Staphylococcus aureus collecting from Nakuru Provincial General Hospital Laboratory , Kenya

Tel. : +254-728084948/ +256-787112512 The use of Solanum incanum for thousands of years to treat various diseases such as; sore throat, stomach ache, head-ache, painful menstruation, liver pain, pneumonia and rheumatism throughout tropical Africa has been great. This has lead to great efforts towards validating the claimed medicinal value as demonstrated in this present study.In this current study we evaluated the percentage yield, phytochemical composition and use of methanolic and aqueous extract of S. incanum as remedy in management of S. aureus infections of patients attending Nakuru provincial General Hospital. In the current study qualitative phytochemical analysis by modified methods of Trease and Evans were used. The zones of inhibition and minimum inhibitory concentration activity against S. aureus and obtained by use of Agar well diffusion assay.The aqueous extract of S . incanum had a higher yield of 5.3% as compared to the methanolic extract that had a yield of 4.6%. From phytochemical analysis the basic alkaloids, were strongly present, followed by saponins and Steroid glycosides in parenthesis. While the terpenoids, flavonoids and cardiac glycosides were weakly present. The zones of inhibition of the methanolic and aqueous extract ranged from 612mm and 6-9.25mm respectively at a concentration of 0.01 to 100mg/ml with the positive control having a diameter of 12.35mm against the S.aureus. The MIC of S. incanum methanolic and aqueous fruit extract was found to be 0.1mg/ml and 1mg/ml respectively. The currents study support the continuous use of S. incanum in management of wound infection in Kenyan communities caused by S. aureus infections.
Ten Years of European Monetary Union

Using a simple model of the euro area economy, we explore whether EMU has been associated with changes in behaviour both in the run up to Stage 3 and since it started operating. We find that some behaviour has indeed changed; expectations formation, inflation, country dispersion of behaviour, fiscal policy (although the run up to Stage 3 shows a greater change than within it) and monetary policy (with several caveats). However, EMU does not appear to be associated with changes in the labour markets; employment, output growth and productivity. Substantial caution is needed in attributing these changes to EMU as much of the rest of OECD enjoyed similar changes over the same period. When the eurozone was envisaged the main point was to change economic behaviour for the better. While 'One Market, One Money' (European Commission, 1990) did not offer such a sweeping set of potential gains as the Cecchini Report (1988) on the 'completion' of the internal market it did anticipate a steady series of improvements. A study of the impact of stage 3 of Economic and Monetary Union in the EU, which is largely composed of the inception of the euro area and its attendant institutions, therefore needs to look over a number of years and not simply compare post1999 with pre-1999. Stage 2 of EMU, which began in 1994 was explicitly a period of transition. Most importantly the member states were concerned to qualify for membership, by the qualifying dates of mid-1996 and ultimately mid-1998. At the very least therefore we can distinguish, three periods – pre-transition, up to around 1992, when many member states were forced out of their ERM parities, transition up to mid-1998 and post-transition from then to the present day. The post 1999 period also deserves closer scrutiny; in the case of fiscal policy in particular there are good reasons for believing that after the creation of EMU fiscal discipline may have started to revert to that of earlier days. Therefore, there are good arguments for subdividing both the pre and post transition periods. 1987 seems to have been somewhat of a watershed, for example. ∗ corresponding author. Europe Institute, University of Auckland and Bank of Finland, address: Suomen Pankki, PL 160, 00101 Helsinki, Finland; email david.mayes@bof.fi. † Bank of Finland and University of Turku
Potential identi fi cation and industrial evaluation of an integrated design automation work fl ow

Purpose – The paper aims to raise awareness in the industry of design automation tools, especially in early design phases, by demonstrating along a case study the seamless integration of a prototypically implemented optimization, supporting design space exploration in the early design phase and an in operational use product configurator, supporting the drafting and detailing of the solution predominantly in the later design phase. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the comparison of modeled as-is and to-be processes of ascent assembly designs with and without design automation tools, an automation roadmap is developed. Using qualitative and quantitative assessments, the potentials and benefits, as well as acceptance and usage aspects, are evaluated. Findings – Engineers tend to consider design automation for routine tasks. Yet, prototypical implementations support the communication and identification of the potential for the early stages of the design process to explore solution spaces. In this context, choosing from and interactively working with automatically generated alternative solutions emerged as a particular focus. Translators, enabling automatic downstream propagation of changes and thus ensuring consistency as to change management were also evaluated to be of major value. Research limitations/implications – A systematic validation of design automation in design practice is presented. For generalization, more case studies are needed. Further, the derivation of appropriate metrics needs to be investigated to normalize validation of design automation in future research. Practical implications – Integration of design automation in early design phases has great potential for reducing costs in the market launch. Prototypical implementations are an important ingredient for potential evaluation of actual usage and acceptance before implementing a live system. © Doris Entner, Thorsten Prante, Thomas Vosgien, Alexandru-Ciprian Z avoianu, Susanne Saminger-Platz, Martin Schwarz and Klara Fink. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode The work was carried out within the K-Project # 843551 “Advanced Engineering Design Automation (AEDA),” funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG. Integrated design automation workflow Received 7 June 2018 Revised 19 October 2018 Accepted 14April 2019 Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology EmeraldPublishingLimited 1726-0531 DOI 10.1108/JEDT-06-2018-0096 The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at: www.emeraldinsight. com/1726-0531.htm
th ] 1 0 A ug 2 01 7 Glueball-baryon interactions in holographic QCD

Studying the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model with type IIA string theory, we find the glueball-baryon interaction is predicted in this model. The glueball is identified as the 11D gravitational waves or graviton described by the M5-brane supergravity solution. Employing the relation of M-theory and type IIA string theory, glueball is also 10D gravitational perturbations which are the excited modes by close strings in the bulk of this model. On the other hand, baryon is identified as a D4-brane wrapped on S which is named as baryon vertex, so the glueball-baryon interaction is nothing but the close string/baryon vertex interaction in this model. Since the baryon vertex could be equivalently treated as the instanton configurations on the flavor brane, we identify the glueball-baryon interaction as “graviton-instanton” interaction in order to describe it quantitatively by the quantum mechanical system for the collective modes of baryons. So the effective Hamiltonian can be obtained by considering the gravitational perturbations in the flavor brane action. With this Hamiltonian, the amplitudes and the selection rules of the glueball-baryon interaction can be analytically calculated in the strong coupling limit. We show our calculations explicitly in two characteristic situations which are “scalar and tensor glueball interacting with baryons”. Although there is a long way to go, our work provides a holographic way to understand the interactions of baryons in hadronic physics and nuclear physics by the underlying string theory. Email: cloudk@mail.ustc. edu.cn 1
Chapter 10 Model-Based Inquiry in Computer-Supported Learning Environments : The Case of GoLab

This chapter focuses on model-based inquiry in computer-supported environments, especially through the use of the Go-Lab platform (www.golabz.eu). Go-Lab is an online learning platform that offers students the opportunity to engage in inquiry-based science learning, in a structured and supportive manner, by providing environments for learning (i.e., Inquiry Learning Spaces), where virtual or remote laboratories and software scaffolds (e.g., tools for generating hypotheses and designing experiments) that support inquiry learning processes have been integrated. The purpose of this chapter is to unravel how the Go-Lab platform, especially some of its virtual laboratories, can be used for model-based learning. In so doing, we discuss core requirements for model-based inquiry in expressing, testing, and revising models. Further, we present three examples of Go-Lab virtual laboratories, with modeling and simulation affordances, to explain how they could be used by educators as means for enacting model-based inquiry.