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Competitive Evolutionary Dynamics of Cloud Service Offerings in Korea: A Path-Dependency Perspective
Cloud service for personal users has become more popular world-wide since Apple Inc. launched iCloud storage service in October, 2011. However, such cloud storage service was not new because many global telecom companies, usually called telcos, as well as many portals had already offered similar Internet-based online storage services at that time. As of now, there can be seen hundreds of diverse cloud storage and computing services for both personal and enterprise users in the global market. During last several years, Korean cloud service market has been led by three major telcos, who have launched more advanced and more diversified services competing with each other. Some questions may arise: What makes that happen and what kind of market dynamics affects on the evolution of cloud service offerings? This paper tries to answer these questions by categorizing and analysing 84 cloud services offered by three major telcos in Korea during last three years. As a research framework, Pessemier’s new product classification scheme was employed and precedence relationships among differently positioned service categories were analyzed to figure out the competitive evolutionary dynamics of the market. From the empirical study, path dependency was observed and resource-based view of the market competition was validated. Also, it was found that a player’s next move in service offering to a better position in Pessemier’s product space is quite closely related with the competitive position as well as the company-owned competitive resources like technology competency and company-wide service scope
Vietnamese Immigrant Women's Experience of Maternity after Childbirth
PURPOSE: To understand the meaning and essence of Vietnamese migrant women's maternal experience after childbirth.
METHODS: A phenomenological methodology was used for this study. Study participants were six Vietnamese marriage migrant women who had experience of childbirth in Korea. Data collection period was from February 1 through November 4, 2016. Data were collected through in-depth interview and analyzed with the Giorgi method.
RESULTS: As a result of study, six main meanings and 12 themes were produced. The six main meanings produced in this study were ‘childbirth realized in the double difficulty’, ‘concerned health between the ở cữ and the sanhujori’, ‘tired body with hard parenting’, ‘crowding regret for international marriage after childbirth’, ‘Grateful partner becoming the prop’, and ‘Growing maternal instinct by moving the mind and body in a foreign country’.
CONCLUSION: Consideration for postnatal care is necessary from Vietnamese marriage migrant women's viewpoint. Systematic education programs that can improve nursing capability of medical personnel for multicultured clinical practice with development of a postnatal care program suited to multiculture are also necessary
Total Reflection and Negative Refraction of Dipole-Exchange Spin Waves at Magnetic Interfaces: Micromagnetic Modeling Study
We demonstrated that dipole-exchange spin waves traveling in geometrically
restricted magnetic thin films satisfy the same laws of reflection and
refraction as light waves. Moreover, we found for the first time novel wave
behaviors of dipole-exchange spin waves such as total reflection and negative
refraction. The total reflection in laterally inhomogeneous thin films composed
of two different magnetic materials is associated with the forbidden modes of
refracted dipole-exchange spin waves. The negative refraction occurs at a 90
degree domain-wall magnetic interface that is introduced by a cubic magnetic
anisotropy in the media, through the anisotropic dispersion of dipole-exchange
spin waves.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
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Novel Adsorbent-Reactants for Treatment of Ash and Scrubber Pond Effluents
The overall goal of this project was to evaluate the ability of novel adsorbent/reactants to remove specific toxic target chemicals from ash and scrubber pond effluents while producing stable residuals for ultimate disposal. The target chemicals studied were arsenic (As(III) and As(V)), mercury (Hg(II)) and selenium (Se(IV) and Se(VI)). The adsorbent/reactants that were evaluated are iron sulfide (FeS) and pyrite (FeS{sub 2}). Procedures for measuring concentrations of target compounds and characterizing the surfaces of adsorbent-reactants were developed. Effects of contact time, pH (7, 8, 9, 10) and sulfate concentration (0, 1, 10 mM) on removal of all target compounds on both adsorbent-reactants were determined. Stability tests were conducted to evaluate the extent to which target compounds were released from the adsorbent-reactants when pH changed. Surface characterization was conducted with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to identify reactions occurring on the surface between the target compounds and surface iron and sulfur. Results indicated that target compounds could be removed by FeS{sub 2} and FeS and that removal was affected by time, pH and surface reactions. Stability of residuals was generally good and appeared to be affected by the extent of surface reactions. Synthesized pyrite and mackinawite appear to have the required characteristics for removing the target compounds from wastewaters from ash ponds and scrubber ponds and producing stable residuals
Pivotal-based inference for a Pareto distribution under the adaptive progressive Type-II censoring scheme
This paper proposes an inference approach based on a pivotal quantity under the adaptive progressive Type-II censoring scheme. To exemplify the proposed methodology, an extensively employed distribution, a Pareto distribution, is utilized. This distribution has limitations in estimating confidence intervals for unknown parameters from classical methods such as the maximum likelihood and bootstrap methods. For example, in the maximum likelihood method, the asymptotic variance-covariance matrix does not always exist. In addition, both classical methods can yield confidence intervals that do not satisfy nominal levels when a sample size is not large enough. Our approach resolves these limitations by allowing us to construct exact intervals for unknown parameters with computational simplicity. Aside from this, the proposed approach leads to closed-form estimators with properties such as unbiasedness and consistency. To verify the validity of the proposed methodology, two approaches, a Monte Carlo simulation and a real-world data analysis, are conducted. The simulation testifies to the superior performance of the proposed methodology as compared to the maximum likelihood method, and the real-world data analysis examines the applicability and scalability of the proposed methodology
The limited immunomodulatory effects of escharectomy on the kinetics of endotoxin, cytokines, and adhesion molecules in major burns.
Escharectomy has been shown to improve the survival rates and the outcomes in burns. This observational study was conducted to assess the role of escharectomy on the inflammatory mediators in major burns. Seventeen ASA physical status II or status III adult surviving major burn patients were recruited. When the escharectomy was scheduled, a series of blood samples was obtained at -3 and -1 days preoperation, and +1 and +3 postoperation. The changing levels of endotoxin, cytokines, and adhesion molecules were measured with a quantitative sandwich immunoassay. Extensive escharectomy did not appear to have any significant impact on the levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-10, soluble intracellular adhesion molecule-1 and soluble vascular adhesion molecule-1. Meanwhile, endotoxin and E-selectin were significantly decreased after escharectomy. Escharectomy appeared to have a limited immunomodulatory effect on the inflammatory mediators in systemic inflammatory responses induced by major burns. This is probably related to the timing and extent of surgery, and the complex nature of burn-related inflammation
Tuning photoluminescence of organic rubrene nanoparticles through a hydrothermal process
Light-emitting 5,6,11,12-tetraphenylnaphthacene (rubrene) nanoparticles (NPs) prepared by a reprecipitation method were treated hydrothermally. The diameters of hydrothermally treated rubrene NPs were changed from 100 nm to 2 μm, depending on hydrothermal temperature. Photoluminescence (PL) characteristics of rubrene NPs varied with hydrothermal temperatures. Luminescence of pristine rubrene NPs was yellow-orange, and it changed to blue as the hydrothermal temperature increased to 180°C. The light-emitting color distribution of the NPs was confirmed using confocal laser spectrum microscope. As the hydrothermal temperature increased from 110°C to 160°C, the blue light emission at 464 to approximately 516 nm from filtered-down NPs was enhanced by H-type aggregation. Filtered-up rubrene NPs treated at 170°C and 180°C exhibited blue luminescence due to the decrease of intermolecular excimer densities with the rapid increase in size. Variations in PL of hydrothermally treated rubrene NPs resulted from different size distributions of the NPs
Overexpression of the miR-141/200c cluster promotes the migratory and invasive ability of triple-negative breast cancer cells through the activation of the FAK and PI3K/AKT signaling pathways by secreting VEGF-A
Migration in miR-141/200c-transduced HCC-38 and Hs578T cells treated with an anti-VEGF-A-neutralizing antibody. (A, D) Migration in miR-141/200c-transduced HCC-38 and Hs578T cells. Images of the crystal violet-stained cells that migrated horizontally in the trans-well migration assay (upper). The absorbance values of extracted crystal violet in migrated cells (lower). The migratory abilities of the miR-200c cells (~1.6-fold and ~1.7-fold, HCC-38 and Hs578T, respectively) were significantly increased compared with those of the control cells. (B, E) Measurement of the secreted levels of cytokines and growth factors (IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, IL-12, IL-13, GM-CSF, IFN-γ, TNF-α, and VEGF-A). Transduction of miR-141/200c into HCC-38 and Hs578T cells promoted significantly higher VEGF-A secretion than that of control cells. (C, F) Trans-well migration of anti-VEGF-A-neutralizing antibody-treated cells. The enhanced migration of the miR-141/200c-transduced HCC-38 cells were significantly suppressed by treatment with anti-VEGF-A-neutralizing antibodies, but miR-141/200c-transduced Hs578T cells still showed increased migratory ability compared with control cells. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001. (JPG 188 kb
Real-Time Monitoring of Neural Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing
Stem cells are useful for cell replacement therapy. Stem cell differentiation must be monitored thoroughly and precisely prior to transplantation. In this study we evaluated the usefulness of electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) for in vitro real-time monitoring of neural differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). We cultured hMSCs in neural
differentiation media (NDM) for 6 days and examined the time-course of impedance changes with an ECIS array. We also
monitored the expression of markers for neural differentiation, total cell count, and cell cycle profiles. Cellular expression of
neuron and oligodendrocyte markers increased. The resistance value of cells cultured in NDM was automatically measured in real-time
and found to increase much more slowly over time compared to cells cultured in non-differentiation media. The relatively slow
resistance changes observed in differentiating MSCs were determined to be due to their lower growth capacity achieved by
induction of cell cycle arrest in G0/G1. Overall results suggest that the relatively slow change in resistance values measured by
ECIS method can be used as a parameter for slowly growing neural-differentiating cells. However, to enhance the competence
of ECIS for in vitro real-time monitoring of neural differentiation of MSCs, more elaborate studies are needed
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