Paper 28 Title: THE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND CONDUCTED FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE ERP (ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING) BENEFITS

This study aims to examine ERP performance at the post-implementation stage, particularly from the perspective of environmental factors and conducted factors. Specifically, we propose that both environmental factors (including external contexts and internal contexts) and conducted factors (including data quality and customization) affect ERP intermediated benefits (including coordination improvement and task efficiency), which in turn influence the overall benefits. A firm-level survey is used to collected data. Our findings support the proposed hypotheses. We also provide implications for both managers and researchers

Zero-Shot Visual Recognition using Semantics-Preserving Adversarial Embedding Networks

We propose a novel framework called Semantics-Preserving Adversarial Embedding Network (SP-AEN) for zero-shot visual recognition (ZSL), where test images and their classes are both unseen during training. SP-AEN aims to tackle the inherent problem --- semantic loss --- in the prevailing family of embedding-based ZSL, where some semantics would be discarded during training if they are non-discriminative for training classes, but could become critical for recognizing test classes. Specifically, SP-AEN prevents the semantic loss by introducing an independent visual-to-semantic space embedder which disentangles the semantic space into two subspaces for the two arguably conflicting objectives: classification and reconstruction. Through adversarial learning of the two subspaces, SP-AEN can transfer the semantics from the reconstructive subspace to the discriminative one, accomplishing the improved zero-shot recognition of unseen classes. Comparing with prior works, SP-AEN can not only improve classification but also generate photo-realistic images, demonstrating the effectiveness of semantic preservation. On four popular benchmarks: CUB, AWA, SUN and aPY, SP-AEN considerably outperforms other state-of-the-art methods by an absolute performance difference of 12.2\%, 9.3\%, 4.0\%, and 3.6\% in terms of harmonic mean value

Application of Karyotype and Genetic Characterization Analyses for Hybrid Breeding of Epinephelus Groupers

In this study, karyotypes and Cyt b gene sequences of seven different species of grouper including Plectropomus leopardus, Epinephelus coioides, E. flavocaeruleus, E. fuscoguttatus, E. lanceolatus, E. polyphekadion, and E. tukula were examined. All chromosome numbers from seven groupers were 2n = 48 with a high number of telocentric chromosomes (38–48) and fundamental arm numbers (FNs) (48–54). The mitochondrial Cyt b gene was used to establish the barcodes of seven groupers and analyze phylogenetic relationships among these species. We discovered that Epinephelus groupers should be classified as monophyly. The minimum genetic distance expressed between E. coioides and E. tukula was 0.1276. From results of the cytogenetic and molecular analyses, it was demonstrated that Plectropomus is a relatively primitive genus of grouper, while Epinephelus is a more-modern derived genus. Results also showed that E. coioides and E. tukula have similar genetic characters and karyotypes, and should be foremost considered for artificial hybridization strategies. Furthermore, information on karyotypes of species within the Epinephelus is still insufficient, and further elucidation of karyotypes of Epinephelus will be a great help to future genetic breeding research

Fatigue Deformation Mechanisms of Zirconia Ceramics

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/65237/1/j.1151-2916.1992.tb05558.x.pd