nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Exploring behavioural branding, brand love and brand co creation

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the complex consumer brand relationships by holistically exploring the dynamics between brand love and co creation, how they are impacted by behavioural branding and their combined impact to brand loyalty.,This is a conceptual paper, based on extensive and thorough literature review on the fields of brand love, behavioural branding, brand communities and co creation, that leads to the formulation of a proposed synthesized framework.,The authors propose that consumers experiencing brand love are more willing to engage in an active co creating behaviour in the context of a brand community, especially when brand representatives vividly communicate the brand values and motivate consumers to engage. This process is moderated by the product/service category and level of customer involvement with it, and it produces a combined positive impact on brand loyalty.,The proposed conceptual framework needs to be validated through empirical research. However, even at this initial stage, it may have a significant impact, especially as it highlights the role of brand representatives and how they could drastically moderate the relationship between the brand and the consumer.,This is the first attempt to incorporate the constructs that are significant to the consumer brand relationship research stream in one conceptual framework. The synthesis of these concepts will contribute to the improved understanding of the consumer brand relationship, and its dynamics and will equip managers with a novel approach to the central role of behavioural branding.
Advancing theory and knowledge in the business to business branding literature

This study investigates the intellectual structure, development, and evolution of business to business (B2B) branding research by undertaking a bibliometric analysis of scholarly articles on B2B branding over the 43 year period from 1972 to 2015. The analysis covers 169 scholarly articles by 395 authors and 10,270 citations from 33 academic journals in which B2B branding articles appeared. By identifying and evaluating the underlying structure and evolution of scholarly research in B2B branding, this study provides an exhaustive review of this discipline as well as a baseline on which future researchers in the field can build a sound theoretical foundation. The bibliometric analysis results reveal the most cited articles, keywords, authors, institutions, and countries in B2B branding discipline. Further, the study identifies major areas of B2B branding research. The study closes with implications of findings and a report on emerging trends as well as directions for future research.
Investigating the Effectiveness of a Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship Based (DIR) Improvisational Music Therapy Program on Social Communication for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of improvisational music therapy carried out within a DIRFloortime framework in addressing the individual social communication needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Participants included four children enrolled in a therapeutic day school, 4 8 years of age, and diagnosed with ASD. Each child participated in twenty four 30 minute individual DIR based improvisational music therapy sessions over the course of 13 weeks. The Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS) was used to evaluate changes in social communication skills. Results indicated improvements in areas of self regulation, engagement, behavioral organization, and two way purposeful communication.
The Marshmallow Test: Delay of Gratification and Independent Rule Compliance

The Marshmallow Test, a self imposed delay of gratification task pioneered by Walter Mischel in the 1960's, showed that young children vary in their ability to inhibit impulses and regulate their attention and emotion in order to wait and obtain a desired reward (Mischel Mischel, 1983) The Marshmallow Test offers an opportunity to observe and measure children's decision making and self regulation in an emotionally charged context of often conflicting motivations. Additionally, this task provides a context to investigate how compliance with rules and self regulation may depend on or compete with each other. In this dissertation, I examine the marshmallow test by comparing different criteria of 'success' in this task with the two ways in which children can 'fail' to delay, either by voluntarily terminating the task, or by breaking one of the rules. Though distinctly observable behaviors, these have traditionally been considered equivalent in indicating the end of the delay period. In two studies, I examine the cognitive, behavioral, and demographic measures that characterize these behavioral choices. First, I conducted a cross sectional behavioral study of children ages 3 7. My findings in the first study suggest that models predicting delay of gratification performance for compliant children do not apply to noncompliant children. Secondly, I carried out a secondary analysis of longitudinal data in which the children participated in the marshmallow task at age 4.5, followed by subsequent assessments in elementary and high school (NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1998) In this analysis, I found that there were no substantial differences in behavioral or cognitive longitudinal
Controlling Ourselves: Emotional Intelligence, the Marshmallow Test, and the Inheritance of Race

What does the immensely successful and culturally influential "marshmallow test," developed by psychologist Walter Mischel to measure a child's ability to demonstrate self control and resist immediate temptation, have to do with the history of race in the United States? Already in the 1960s, Mischel's experiments on the delay of gratification had been cited in the Moynihan Report as well as other public policy pronouncements that sought to analyze why many African Americans remained mired in poverty. Yet the story of race and self control has a far longer history that dates back at least to the New Deal era when social scientists linked self denial to middle class and white neuroses. By the 1950s, however, self control assumed a prominent (if contradictory) place in criminology and studies in juvenile delinquency. Although this was a legacy Mischel initially critiqued, his gratification delay experiments came by the 1970s and 1980s directly to inform more overtly right wing (and racialized) social theories that openly linked low delay with low IQ and criminal behavior. By the 1990s, with the rise of positive psychology and a concept of emotional intelligence (EI) that heralded self control as a "master aptitude," the ways in which self control had been inseparable from the histories of race and class were erased almost entirely. Reconstructing this ambiguous history offers insights not only into a forgotten postwar American story, but also what has been at stake in debates over educational reforms in our present.
A Ka band BiCMOS LC VCO with wide tuning range and low phase noise using switched coupled inductors
Venue: 2016 11th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC)

This paper presents a wideband and low phase noise millimeter wave (mm wave) voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) fabricated in 130 nm BiCMOS technology. The output signal can sweep from 29.6 to 35.5 GHz, which corresponds to 18.1% tuning range. The LC tank of the VCO consists of two coupled inductors and a binary weighted varactor bank. The secondary inductor is terminated with a switch realized with heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) Depending on the switch state, the effective inductance of the LC core can be changed which leads to significant improvement of tuning range. It is shown that the resistance of the switch in ON state can have a small effect on the LC tank quality factor Q if the switch is properly sized. This results in a good phase noise performance over the whole frequency range. The measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset from the carrier is better than 97 dBc/Hz, which results in a figure of merit of 180 dBc/Hz. The VCO dissipates 20 mW and occupies 0.1mm2 chip area.
A Ku Band Low Phase Noise Wide Tuning Range VCO in SiGe BiCMOS Technology
Venue: J. Commun.

In this paper, design and fabrication of a Ku band voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) using commercially available 0.18 mm SiGe BiCMOS technology is presented. To achieve the low phase noise, the VCO employs a gm boosted configuration which is a combination of cross coupled VCO and balanced Colpitts VCO, and the VCO simultaneously achieves wide tuning range. The tested results show that the VCO exhibits a phase noise of 116.2 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset and presents a tuning range from 12.82 GHz to 14.28 GHz. The overall dc current consumption of the VCO is 2.1 mA with a supply voltage 1.8 V. The chip area of the VCO is 0.92x0.91 mm.
Do Broad Based Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing and Stock Options Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

This article analyses the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation (broad based employee ownership, profit sharing and stock options) labour practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover and firm performance in firms that applied to the '100 Best Companies to Work For in America' competition from 2005 to 2007. Although employers with good labour practices self select into the 100 Best Companies firms sample, which should bias the analysis against finding strong associations among modes of compensation, labour policies and outcomes, we find that employees in the firms that use group incentive pay more extensively participate more in decisions, have greater information sharing, trust supervisors more and report a more positive workplace culture than in other companies. The combination of group incentive pay with policies that empower employees and create a positive workplace culture reduces voluntary turnover and increases employee intent to stay and raises return on equity.
Negotiate, reciprocate, or cooperate? The impact of exchange modes on inter employee knowledge sharing
Venue: J. Knowl. Manag.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of exchange modes negotiated, reciprocal, generalized, and productive on inter employee knowledge sharing.  Based on the affect theory of social exchange, a theoretical model was developed and empirically tested using a survey of 691 employees from 15 North American credit unions.  The negotiated mode of knowledge exchange, i.e. when a knowledge contributor explicitly establishes reciprocation conditions with a recipient, develops negative knowledge sharing attitude. The reciprocal mode, i.e. when a knowledge donor assumes that a receiver will reciprocate, has no effect on knowledge sharing attitude. The generalized exchange form, i.e. when a knowledge contributor believes that other organizational members may reciprocate, is weakly related to knowledge sharing attitude. The productive exchange mode, i.e. when a knowledge provider assumes he or she is a responsible citizen within a cooperative enterprise, strongly facilitates the development of knowledge sharing attitude, which, in turn, leads to knowledge sharing intentions.  To facilitate inter employee knowledge sharing, managers should focus on the development of positive knowledge sharing culture when all employees believe they contribute to a common good instead of expecting reciprocal benefits.  This is one of the first studies to apply the affect theory of social exchange to study knowledge sharing.
Periorbital Nodular Fasciitis in Pregnancy: Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Venue: Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery

Nodular fasciitis is a comparatively common benign soft tissue tumor, which may rarely occur in the periorbital and orbital regions. It can be confused with a malignant sarcoma both in its clinical behavior and histologic appearance. Trauma is a suspected risk factor for nodular fasciitis and pregnancy may also be a risk factor. This may be due to the hormone related changes occurring in pregnancy, which are suspected to be responsible for the growth of some orbital masses in pregnancy. However, there are other cases of orbital masses, which have grown in pregnancy and were not proven positive for estrogen or progesterone receptors, suggesting another mechanism for tumor growth. In any case, awareness of nodular fasciitis in the differential diagnosis of a rapidly growing, soft tissue mass in the periorbital and orbital regions is important to avoid misdiagnosis of a malignancy and unnecessary treatment.
An In Band OSNR Monitoring Technique Based on Normalized Autocorrelation Function
Venue: 2016 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP)

We experimentally demonstrate a novel in band OSNR monitor based on normalized autocorrelation function, which is insensitive to both CD and input optical power. OSNR up to 26 dB is successfully monitored for 112 Gbit/s PDM QPSK.
Plugged In or Disconnected? A Model of the Effects of Technological Factors on Employee Job Embeddedness

Technology continues to play an ever increasing role in both our work and private lives. In parallel with this expanding reliance on technology has been a shift in how people now view their jobs. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide a theoretical model that bridges these two areas technology and employee attitudes (more specifically, work related feelings of embeddedness) Within our model, we consider aspects of common work related technologies and key perceptual variables related to technology, and how both areas can influence embeddedness in one's job. We conclude the article by providing examples of how specific technologies that are commonly found in today's work environment may influence job embeddedness perceptions, and we discuss the implications of the model on both theory and practice
On the Value of Job Migration in Online Makespan Minimization
Venue: Algorithmica

Makespan minimization on identical parallel machines is a classical scheduling problem. We consider the online scenario where a sequence of n jobs has to be scheduled non preemptively on m machines so as to minimize the maximum completion time of any job. The best competitive ratio that can be achieved by deterministic online algorithms is in the range [1.88, 1.9201] Currently no randomized online algorithm with a smaller competitiveness is known, for general m. In this paper we explore the power of job migration, i.e. an online scheduler is allowed to perform a limited number of job reassignments. Migration is a common technique used in theory and practice to balance load in parallel processing environments. As our main result we settle the performance that can be achieved by deterministic online algorithms. We develop an algorithm that is \alpha _m$$am competitive, for any $m\ge 2$$m>=2, where \alpha _m$$am is the solution of a certain equation. For $m=2$$m=2, \alpha _2 4/3$$a2=4/3 and \lim _{m\rightarrow \infty \alpha _m W_{ 1} 1/e^2)(1+ W_{ 1} 1/e^2) \approx 1.4659$$limm am=W 1( 1/e2)(1+W 1( 1/e2))1.4659. m\ge 11$$m>=11, the algorithm uses at most 7m migration operations. For smaller m, 8m to 10m operations may be performed. We complement this result by a matching lower bound: No online algorithm that uses o(n) job migrations can achieve a competitive ratio smaller than \alpha _m$$am. We finally trade performance for migrations. We give a family of algorithms that is c competitive, for any $5/3\le c \le 2$$5/3<=c<=2. For $c= 5/3$$c=5/3, the strategy uses at most 4m job migrations. For $c=1.75$$c=1.75, at most 2.5m migrations are used.
Producing air stable monolayers of phosphorene and their defect engineering
Venue: Nature communications

It has been a long standing challenge to produce air stable few or monolayer samples of phosphorene because thin phosphorene films degrade rapidly in ambient conditions. Here we demonstrate a new highly controllable method for fabricating high quality, air stable phosphorene films with a designated number of layers ranging from a few down to monolayer. Our approach involves the use of oxygen plasma dry etching to thin down thick exfoliated phosphorene flakes, layer by layer with atomic precision. Moreover, in a stabilized phosphorene monolayer, we were able to precisely engineer defects for the first time, which led to efficient emission of photons at new frequencies in the near infrared at room temperature. In addition, we demonstrate the use of an electrostatic gate to tune the photon emission from the defects in a monolayer phosphorene. This could lead to new electronic and optoelectronic devices, such as electrically tunable, broadband near infrared lighting devices operating at room temperature.
Defect rich ZnO nanosheets of high surface area as an efficient visible light photocatalyst

A facile ultra rapid solution method was developed to fabricate ZnO nanosheets with tunable BET surface area and rich oxygen vacancy defects. The addition of 1 mol L 1 Na2SO4 led to an increase of BET surface area of ZnO nanosheets from 6.7 to 34.5 m2/g, through an electrostatic controlled growth and self assembly mechanism. Detailed analysis based on Raman scattering, room temperature photoluminescence, X ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electron spin resonance revealed that the as prepared ZnO nanosheets were rich in oxygen vacancies. Increased BET surface area led to a further increase of surface oxygen vacancy concentration. The rich oxygen vacancies promoted the visible light absorption of the ZnO nanosheets, leading to high photocurrent responses and photocatalytic activities towards the degradation of rhodamine B (apparent rate constants, k 0.0179 min 1) under visible light illumination (l 420 nm) about 13 and 11 times higher, respectively than that of ZnO nanoparticles with few oxygen defects. In addition, the high surface area ZnO nanosheets could be effectively hybridized with Ag3PO4 nanoparticles, resulting in a further enhancement of the visible light photocatalytic performance (k 0.0421 min 1) This increase in performance was attributed to the increased visible light absorption as well as the energy level matching, the latter leading to efficient charge transfer between oxygen vacancy rich ZnO nanosheet and Ag3PO4, suggesting a synergistic effect of surface oxygen vacancies and Ag3PO4 coupling.
Mitigating Risk Impact of Disputes on Real Estate Business and Investment in Lagos: The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Approach

The occurrence of disputes in various forms of human interactions has increased in complexity and has assumed a disturbing dimension in recent times. Due to uncertainty surrounding dispute resolution through litigation, professionals in the various disciplines are always seeking for alternative and innovative ways through which risk of disputes that arise in the course of business transactions and professional activities can be resolved without recourse to litigation. The objective of the study therefore is to examine the impact of dispute as an emerging risk factor in real estate business and investment and the adoption of Alternative Dispute Resolution techniques as innovative approaches to real estate investment and management dispute resolution thereby mitigating dispute risk impact on real estate investment. Utilising content analysis of cases in real estate investment sourced from the High Court of Lagos State, some ADR centres and consultant Estate Surveyors and Valuers in Lagos State, results showed among others that there were huge loss of investment in real estate, tribal tensions, discrimination and damaged business relationships when ADR frameworks were not involved in disputes resolution. The study has recommended among others that ADR should be enshrined in all real estate management and investment contracts and that all the stakeholders in real estate business should take advantage of the flexible multi level ADR clauses to better the chances of dispute resolution along the real estate value chain.
More Power to OATP1B1: An Evaluation of Sample Size in Pharmacogenetic Studies Using a Rosuvastatin PBPK Model for Intestinal, Hepatic, and Renal Transporter Mediated Clearances
Venue: Journal of clinical pharmacology

Rosuvastatin is a substrate of choice in clinical studies of organic anion transporting polypeptide (OATP)1B1 and OATP1B3 associated drug interactions; thus, understanding the effect of OATP1B1 polymorphisms on the pharmacokinetics of rosuvastatin is crucial. Here, physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling was coupled with a power calculation algorithm to evaluate the influence of sample size on the ability to detect an effect (80% power) of OATP1B1 phenotype on pharmacokinetics of rosuvastatin. Intestinal, hepatic, and renal transporters were mechanistically incorporated into a rosuvastatin PBPK model using permeability limited models for intestine, liver, and kidney, respectively, nested within a full PBPK model. Simulated plasma rosuvastatin concentrations in healthy volunteers were in agreement with previously reported clinical data. Power calculations were used to determine the influence of sample size on study power while accounting for OATP1B1 haplotype frequency and abundance in addition to its correlation with OATP1B3 abundance. It was determined that 10 poor transporter and 45 intermediate transporter individuals are required to achieve 80% power to discriminate the AUC0 48h of rosuvastatin from that of the extensive transporter phenotype. This number was reduced to 7 poor transporter and 40 intermediate transporter individuals when the reported correlation between OATP1B1 and 1B3 abundance was taken into account. The current study represents the first example in which PBPK modeling in conjunction with power analysis has been used to investigate sample size in clinical studies of OATP1B1 polymorphisms. This approach highlights the influence of interindividual variability and correlation of transporter abundance on study power and should allow more informed decision making in pharmacogenomic study design.
Proposal for an Enhanced Physical Education Program in the Primary School: Evaluation of Feasibility and Effectiveness in Improving Physical Skills and Fitness.
Venue: Journal of physical activity health

A large proportion of children do not reach the recommended levels of physical activity for health. A quasiexperimental study with nonrandom assignment was performed to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of a school based physical education intervention aimed at increasing the levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) METHODS Ten classes from 4 primary schools, including 241 children aged 8 to 10 years, were recruited. The experimental group (n 97) received 4 additional sessions/week of 60 minutes of MVPA for 8 months. The control group (n 135) continued their standard program (2 sessions of 50 minutes/week) Motor abilities (standing long jump, handgrip strength, Harre circuit, sit and reach) physical fitness (Yo Yo Intermittent Recovery Level 1) anthropometric measures (body mass index, waist to height ratio) and self efficacy (Perceived Physical Ability Scale for Children) were evaluated at baseline and after the intervention.  The experimental group significantly improved in the Harre circuit both in males (P .001) and females (P .01) whereas physical fitness test improved only in males (P .001) Males in the experimental group improved the perception of self efficacy in coordinative abilities (P .017)  The proposed school based MVPA program showed effectiveness and feasibility. The differences observed by gender highlight the need to use different strategies to increase the involvement of all the participants.