Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An investigation of virtual product experience and its effect mechanism

A significant challenge is posed to online businesses by the inability of customers to directly feel, touch, or sample products sold over the world-wide-web. Virtual product experience (VPE) is designed to alleviate this concern, by providing interactive web interfaces that enable consumers to virtually experience online products via computer mice and keyboards. This study investigates the effects of V P E on web consumers' intentions to revisit particular websites and their intentions to complete purchases on the websites. Specifically, the study analyzes V P E by looking at its two fundamental technological characteristics: interactivity and vividness. Steuer has defined interactivity as "the extent to which users can participate in modifying the form or content of a mediated environment in real time", and defined vividness as "the representational richness of a mediated environment as defined by its formal features; that is, the way in which an environment presents information to the senses". A research model is proposed in this study. It posits that VPE affects consumers' behavioral intentions through the joint effects of vividness and interactivity. Both of these characteristics directly affect perceived diagnosticity, compatibility, and shopping enjoyment. Interactivity alone influences the perceived ease of use of websites, while perceived diagnosticity and compatibility influence perceived usefulness of the websites. Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and shopping enjoyment together influence consumers' attitudes toward the websites, which, in turn, affect consumers' intentions to return to the websites. The model also posits that perceived diagnosticity reduces perceived product risk and improves customers' attitudes toward products. In addition, consumers' attitudes toward websites positively affect their attitudes toward products. Perceived product risk and attitudes toward products jointly affect consumers' intentions to purchase goods from particular websites.
A CASE REPORT OF CLOPIDOGREL-ASPIRIN INDUCED UGI BLEED

Non-variceal bleeding is associated with peptic ulcer disease (PUD) or other causes of UGIB Drug-induced. Clopidogrel, another form of antiplatelet agent, has been approved by the USFDA for use in secondary prevention of heart attacks, valve replacement and stroke. The risk of gastrointestinal bleeding generally increases by a factor of two to three with the use of even low-dose aspirin by substantially inhibiting gastric cyclooxygenase and causing gastric ulceration. The major adverse event of the combination of heparin, aspirin and Clopidogrel is bleeding, particularly from the gastrointestinal tract. Combined anti-thrombotic drug treatment confers particular risk and is associated with high incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding. This can be prevented with the use of regular PPI treatment, esomeprazole was found to be most effective.
Novel Mechanism for Evaluating Feedback in the Grid Environment on Resource Allocation

The primary concern in proffering an infrastructure for general purpose computational grids formation is security. Grid implementations have been devised to deal with the security concerns. The chief factors that can be problematic in the secured selection of grid resources are the wide range of selection and the high degree of strangeness. Moreover, the lack of a higher degree of confidence relationship is likely to prevent efficient resource allocation and utilization. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach for the secured selection of grid resources, so as to achieve secure execution of the jobs. The presented approach utilizes trust and reputation for securely selecting the grid resources by also evaluation user’s feedback on the basis of the feedback already available about the entities. The proposed approach is scalable for an increased number of resources.
An examination on multiple celebrity endorsers in advertising

Celebrity endorsement advertising is a prevailing advertising technique. Some marketers choose to utilize multiple celebrities to promote their products or brands. Nevertheless, it is surprising that so little research has focused on this phenomenon. This research discussed advantages and potential concerns of multi‐celebrity endorsement advertising and documented the actual use of multiple celebrity endorsers in the milk mustache campaign in the USA. We analyzed the content of the 50 milk mustache ads appearing on the http://www.whymilk. com Web site on a list of celebrity‐ or product‐related dimensions. Overall, we found that these milk mustache ads have matched their celebrities’ gender, age and type of milk attributes in appealing to their female/male, teen/adult consumers. The results support that fit between the endorsed product and various celebrities is a key factor for using multiple celebrity endorsers in advertising.
Small-molecule modulators of the constitutive androstane receptor

Introduction: The constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) induces drug-metabolizing enzymes for xenobiotic metabolism. Areas covered: This review covers recent advances in elucidating the biological functions of CAR and its modulation by a growing number of agonists and inhibitors. Expert opinion: Extrapolation of animal CAR function to that of humans should be carefully scrutinized, particularly when rodents are used in evaluating the metabolic profile and carcinogenic properties of clinical drugs and environmental chemicals. Continuous efforts are needed to discover novel CAR inhibitors, with extensive understanding of their inhibitory mechanism, species selectivity, and discriminating power against other xenobiotic sensors.
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Toward Firm Value and Profitability

Corporate Social Responsibility is business contribution to sustainable development, that corporate behaviour not only needed to ensure return to shareholders but also other stakeholders interest. In order to have a long-run business, corporation need to pay attention to 3P (profit, people and planet). Application of CSR is treated as an investment, as there are many benefit from CSR. In Indonesia, CSR currently is an obligation only for corporation in natural resources-related business. Our paper examined 30 selected listed Indonesia corporation (not in natural resources business) to examine relationship between CSR to firm value and profitability. Based on our research, using double linear regression model and usage of GRI as measurement of CSR activity we find out that there is no significant relationship between CSR and firm value (measured by Tobin’s Q). We also find same evidence for relationship between CSR and profitability (ROA, ROE and NPM).
Large attitude change flight of a quad tilt rotor unmanned aerial vehicle

Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been actively used in various fields. However, only the altitude and the attitude in three degrees of freedom can be independently controlled since quadrotor UAVs are underactuated systems. A quad tilt rotor UAV solves the problem of an underactuated system in a general quadrotor UAV. The quad tilt rotor UAV can control both position and attitude independently by tilting the directions of the propellers. However, the flight control system in a wide range of attitudes has not been discussed yet, for example a UAV can fly and hover with a 90 pitch angle, and it can even flip over when the thrust direction is tilted in a wide enough range. In this paper, we present the attitude transition flight control system for pitch angles ranging from 0 to 90 since flight conditions with a 90 pitch angle significantly differs from that in a conventional quadrotor UAV flight. We construct an adequate control system for a flight with a wide range of attitude conditions. Graphical Abstract
Geranylgeranyltransferase I mediates BDNF‐induced synaptogenesis

Geranylgeranyltransferase I (GGT) is a prenyltransferase that mediates lipid modification of Rho small GTPases, such as Rho, Rac, and Cdc42, which are important for neuronal synaptogenesis. Although GGT is expressed in brain extensively, the function of GGT in central nerves system is largely unknown so far. We have previously demonstrated that GGT promotes the basal and neuronal activity and brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)‐induced dendritic morphogenesis of cultured hippocampal neurons and cerebellar slices. This study is to explore the function and mechanism of GGT in neuronal synaptogenesis. We found that the protein level and activity of GGT gradually increased in rat hippocampus from P7 to P28 and subcellular located at synapse of neurons. The linear density of Synapsin 1 and post‐synaptic density protein 95 increased by over‐expression of GGT β, while reduced by inhibition or down‐regulation of GGT. In addition, GGT and its known substrate Rac was activated by BDNF, which promotes synaptogenesis in cultured hippocampal neurons. Furthermore, BDNF‐induced synaptogenesis was eliminated by GGT inhibition or down‐regulation, as well as by non‐prenylated Rac1 over‐expression. Together, our data suggested that GGT mediates BDNF‐induced neuronal synaptogenesis through Rac1 activation.
Customer Loyalty and Logistics Service Performance in Maritime Transport : A Literature Review and Conceptual Model

To achieve a differential advantage over competitors and protect their long-term interest, shipping lines have striven to find ways to maintain an ongoing relationship with shippers which can be achieved by attaining their loyalty. The benefits of loyal shippers are potentially huge in that they generate long-term revenue streams as well as provide cost savings as compared with attracting new shippers. Logistics service provided by shipping lines is identified as one of the effective tools for building customer loyalty. However, in a review of the literature none of the studies examine how logistics service creates customer loyalty, particularly between shipping lines and shippers. Consequently, the overarching purpose of this paper is to extend knowledge on logistics service performance and its relationship with customer loyalty in the unique context of maritime transport by proposing a new conceptual model based on an extensive literature review. The major contribution is to offer a new insight into the complex relationships between those 'soft' concepts in the context of maritime transport.
Tick-borne Encephalitis in North-eastern Poland in 1997-2001: A Retrospective Study

The aim of this study was to characterize the epidemiology and clinical features of tick-borne encephalitis in north-eastern Poland. Clinical and epidemiological data were analysed of patients hospitalized with the diagnosis in the Department of the Infectious Diseases and Neuroinfections of the Medical University in Bialystok in 1997-2001. Tick-borne encephalitis was diagnosed in 152 patients: 51 (34%) presented with meningitis, 89 (59%) with meningoencephalitis and 12 (8%) with meningoencephalomyelitis. Headache (84%) and fever (81%) were the most common symptoms. Meningeal signs were present in 137 patients (90%). Most common neurological abnormalities were: Oppenheim and Babinski signs (74 patients, 49%), ataxia (37, 24%), impaired consciousness (37, 24%) and pareses (16, 10%). Of patients examined, 146 (96%) had raised pleiocytosis, frequently accompanied by high cerebrospinal fluid protein concentration (90%), raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate (65%), peripheral blood leucocytosis (26%) and increased aminotransferase activity (16%). There was only 1 forest worker among the patients. Tick-borne encephalitis remains common in north-eastern Poland but, possibly because of effective vaccination, it has virtually disappeared among forest employees. The diagnosis appears difficult in some cases, as meningeal signs may not be present and laboratory findings may not be suggestive of a viral infection.
Outsourced Privacy-Preserving C4.5 Algorithm over Arbitrarily Partitioned Databases

Many companies want to share data for datamining tasks. However, the privacy and security concerns become a bottleneck in the data sharing filed. The secure multiparty computation (SMC)-based privacy-preserving data mining has emerged as a solution to this problem. However, traditional SMC solutions are inefficient. We introduce the method of outsourcing to reduce the computation cost of user’s side. In order to preserve the privacy of the sharing data, we propose an outsourced privacy-preserving C4.5 algorithm on arbitrarily partitioned databases based on the outsourced accountable computing for finding frequent itemsets (OACFFI) and the outsourced weighted average computing (OWAC) protocols. As a result, we show that our method can achieve similar result with the original C4.5 decision tree algorithm, but also preserve the privacy of the data. We prove that there is a sublinear relationship between the computational cost of user side and the number of participating parties.
Analysis on the development of network virtual money in China

As the rapid development of the Internet,virtual money has become more widely used as a new ex- change medium and payment on the Internet.This paper tries to analyze the phenomenon of virtual currency. First,the status quo of virtual money in China is introduced.Followed by an analysis of its fundamental proper- ties and the reasons why virtual money arises in China.After illustrating two problems about virtual money,we give some policy suggestions.We consider that virtual money on the Internet is not money essentially but a com- modity which undertakes functions of money.Though the virtual money will not impact the current finance sys- tem,it does exert some effects to the real life.
Factors associated with early adiposity rebound. ALSPAC Study Team.

OBJECTIVE The age at which body mass index (BMI) increases after its nadir in childhood, adiposity rebound (AR), is a critical period for the development of obesity. Children with early AR are at substantially increased risk of adult obesity. Few studies have examined the factors that influence the timing of the AR. The aims of this study were to test for influences on the timing of the AR, and to test the hypothesis that early AR is promoted by high-protein intake. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Longitudinal cohort study of 889 children representative of the United Kingdom, followed from birth to 5 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES We tested for differences in dietary intake, parental BMI, socioeconomic status, and childhood BMI between 3 groups of children characterized by the following: very early AR (at or before 43 months), early AR (from 49 but before 61 months), and later AR (after 61 months). RESULTS There was no evidence of associations between dietary protein intake, or any other dietary variable, and timing of the AR. Children with very early AR and early AR had parents with significantly higher BMI, and were significantly more likely to have at least 1 obese parent. CONCLUSION This study does not support the hypothesis that early AR is promoted by high-protein intake. None of the dietary variables tested were significantly associated with timing of the AR, and timing of AR was not associated with socioeconomic status. Parental obesity was associated with an earlier AR.
Religious education in Serbia1

When the government of the Republic of Serbia decided to introduce religious education into state schools in 2001, Serbia came into line with the neighbouring countries, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where at the request of the dominant religious communities confessional religious education had been part of state school curricula ever since the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in 1991. In Serbia, religious education was introduced under chaotic circumstances, shortly after the democratic changes following 5 October 2000, to which it was directly linked. The previous regime of Slobodan Milošević had rejected all initiatives seeking the introduction of religious education into state schools, in spite of the numerous concessions and policy changes toward the church made since the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Confronted as it was by the numerous challenges of transition, the newly created ideological vacuum and the need to mitigate the radical nationalism that had marked Serbia in the 1990s, the new democratic government led by Zoran Ðindić decided to introduce religious education in a calculated scheming attempt to ensure the sympathy of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC). This decision provoked vehement reactions from the government’s opponents, but its effects and consequences have not so far been the subject of any serious analysis. This paper is a pioneer venture in that direction. In the introductory part of my paper I survey the public debate that accompanied the introduction of religious education in Serbia. I then analyse the underpinning legislation and the relevant regulations. In the empirical part of my study I look into numerous components of religious education: the curricula and syllabi, the textbooks, the teachers’ professional competence, practical problems related to the implementation of the programme in the schools, the (lack of) interest on the part of the students and the indirect discrimination provoked by the introduction of religious education. I pay particular attention to the rivalry between religious education and the other optional subject, civic education, this posing the most serious structural problem ensuing from the introduction of these two subjects. The educational reform that took place in Serbia in 2003 has left the model and the status of religious education in Serbia unchanged, and in deep discrepancy with the changes that religious education is undergoing in other European countries. Finally, I make recommendations as to how to improve religious education in Serbia within the existing legal framework, on the basis of the experience of other countries and the advances that have been made in religious pedagogy and didactics as well as in the understanding of the importance and the role of religious education in schools.
Somatic Cell-Like Features of Cloned Mouse Embryos Prepared with Cultured Myoblast Nuclei1

Abstract Cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer requires silencing of the donor cell gene expression program and the initiation of the embryonic gene expression program (nuclear reprogramming). Failure to silence the donor cell program could lead to altered embryonic phenotypes. Cloned mouse embryos produced using myoblast nuclei fail to thrive in standard embryo culture media but flourish in somatic cell culture media favored by the donor myoblasts themselves, forming blastocysts at a significant rate, with robust morphologies, high total cell number, and a normal allocation of cells to the inner cell mass in most embryos. Myoblast cloned embryos continue expressing the GLUT4 glucose transporter, which is typically expressed in muscle but not in preimplantation stage embryos. Myoblast clones also exhibit precocious enrichment of GLUT1 at the cell surface. Both myoblast and cumulus cell cloned embryos exhibit enhanced rates of glucose uptake. These observations indicate that silencing of the donor cell genome during cloning either is incomplete or occurs progressively over the course of preimplantation development. As a result, cloned embryos initially exhibit many somatic cell-like characteristics. Tetraploid constructs, which possess a transplanted somatic cell genome plus the oocyte-derived chromosomes, exhibit a more embryonic-like pattern of gene expression and culture preference. We conclude that preimplantation stage cloned embryos have profoundly altered characteristics that are donor cell type specific and that exposure of cloned embryos to standard embryo culture conditions may lead to disruptions in basic homeostasis and inhibition of a range of essential processes including further nuclear reprogramming, contributing to cloned embryo demise.
General characteristics of food in developing regions–a situational diagnostic assessment

Since the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1946, it has reported on the serious problem of hunger in the world and has undertaken various initiatives for eradicating this problem; however, they have ended in failure. The number of people suffering from hunger has increased from 500 to 800 million in a period of six decades, despite constant growth in world food production, which has been more than sufficient to cover the needs of all of humanity since the 1970s. This paper analyses FAO initiatives in the framework of the evolution of the nutritional situation in developing countries and identifies national and regional contexts in which technical solutions may be successful, as well as those requiring the implementation of economic, political and social measures.
Industrial Salesperson Development: A Career Stages Perspective

The scope of research on the development of salespeople has been very limited, in part because of an incomplete conceptual framework of salespeople's life and career changes. As a first step toward improving this situation, this article presents a framework of developing career concerns in the form of career stages. Career objectives, developmental tasks, personal challenges, and psychosocial needs of each career stage are discussed, and propositions are developed regarding the influence of career stages on salespeople's effectiveness.
Semi-Automatic Construction of a Question Treebank

Abstract A method for the semi-automatic construction of a question treebank is presented. We exploit linguistic knowledge like grammatical functions, constituent structure and the relatively strict word order of English encoded in the Penn Treebank to generate semi-automatically questions. The outcome is a treebank of questions which might be useful for developing better tagging and parsing models for processing questions. We show that it is feasible to reuse the Penn Treebank. At the current stage our treebank comprises about 7000 questions, which can be easily extended.
Kalman Filtering Over Lossy Networks Under Switching Sensors

In this paper, we study the mean square stability of Kalman filtering of a discrete‐time stochastic system under two periodically switching sensors. The sensor measurements are sent to a remote estimator over a lossy channel whose packet loss process is independent and identically distributed. We prove that the problem can be converted into the stability analysis of Kalman filtering using two sensors at each time, and the measurements of each sensor are transmitted to the estimator via an independent lossy channel of the same packet loss rate. Some necessary and/or sufficient conditions for stability of the estimation error covariance matrices are derived. Moreover, the effect of the sensor switching on the filter stability is revealed. Their implications and relationships with related results in the literature are discussed.
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Linear Inverse Problems

In this paper we propose an iterative method using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) strategy to solve linear inverse problems in Hilbert spaces with general convex penalty term. When the data is given exactly, we give a convergence analysis of our ADMM algorithm without assuming the existence of Lagrange multiplier. In case the data contains noise, we show that our method is a regularization method as long as it is terminated by a suitable stopping rule. Various numerical simulations are performed to test the efficiency of the method.