Continuance Intention on Mobile Social Networking Service: Examine the Effects of Habit and Gratifications

By integrating the uses and gratifications theory and habit theory, this study develops a theoretical model to explore factors affecting continuance intention of mobile social networking service. 218 valid data were collected in China. The empirical results show that, cognitive need and affective need have significant impacts on continuance intention. In addition, habit is significantly determined by affective need, tension-release need and prior use, which further significantly influences continuance intention

Microstructure and Adsorption Property of Bamboo-Based Activated Carbon Fibers Prepared by Liquefaction and Curing

In this study, activated carbon fibers (BACF) were prepared from moso bamboo by phenol liquefaction, spinning, curing, and CO2 activation. The microstructure and porous texture of BACF were investigated by Fourier transform IR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and N2 adsorption at -196°C. The surface area and pore volume increased progressively after activation, and yields were found in the range of 39-59.6%. BACF showed type I isotherms with multimodal pore size distributions in th

How Service Guarantee Induces Customer Opportunism Behavior in Online Environment —The Moderating Role of Customers\u27 Personal Characteristics and Reference Group’s Relationship Strength

On the internet, the enterprise provides service guarantee, such as return without reason in seven days , to reduce the perceived risk of online customers effectively. Meanwhile, such service guarantee leads some customer opportunistic behavior. Taking the customers\u27 personal characteristics and reference group’s relationship strength as moderator variables, we conduct an empirical research to study the major factor and it’s effect paths on customer opportunistic behavior by using the scenario role-playing approach. The result shows that higher service guarantee is more likely to induce customer opportunism behavior. And customers’ personality (Machiavellianism) has nothing to do with the relationship. On the contrary, the relationship strength has a significantly moderating role in the impact of service guarantee strength on customers’ opportunistic behavior. Knowing friends of strong relationship have opportunistic behaviors, customer is more likely to choose the similar behavior when they face the higher service guarantee

A comment on "Ab initio calculations of pressure-dependence of high-order elastic constants using finite deformations approach" by I. Mosyagin, A.V. Lugovskoy, O.M. Krasilnikov, Yu.Kh. Vekilov, S.I. Simak and I.A. Abrikosov

Recently, I. Mosyagin, A.V. Lugovskoy, O.M. Krasilnikov, Yu.Kh. Vekilov, S.I. Simak and I.A. Abrikosov in the paper: "Ab initio calculations of pressure-dependence of high-order elastic constants using finite deformations approach"[Computer Physics Communications 220 (2017) 2030] presented a description of a technique for ab initio calculations of the pressure dependence of second- and third-order elastic constants. Unfortunately, the work contains serious and fundamental flaws in the field of finite-deformation solid mechanics.Comment: 3 pages, 0 figure

THE SCOPING REVIEW OF CHINESE AND WESTERN MEDICINE TREATMENT OF DIABETIC FOOT IN ASIA

Diabetic foot is a common and serious chronic complication of diabetes due to the simultaneous occurrence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and vascular lesion. Among all complications, foot ulcers in diabetic ulcers account for the first place among the reasons for hospitalization and treatment of diabetic patients. 15% of diabetic patients may have foot diseases, and 85% of patients may have foot ulcers as the cause of amputation. Diabetic foot seriously affects the quality of life of patients. Although there are many methods to treat diabetic foot, the therapeutic effect of diabetic foot is not ideal in general. The main purpose of this scoping review was analyzing the existing loopholes of researches on diabetic foot in Asia. Used Pub Med, CNKI, Wangfang data, CQVIP to search and select 5 traditional Chinese medicine literatures and 5 western medicine literature, through the comparison of various conditions between literature to analyze the lack of research. Ten pieces of literature were retained through 183 records and included 9 drugs or decoction, they were adipose-derived stem cell–hydrogel complex, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Xenogeneic (porcine) a cellular dermal matrix, alprostadil, salvia miltiorrhiza polyphenols for injection and collagen sponge, Taohong Siwu Decoction, Simiao Yong an Decoction, Jiawei Simiao Yong an Decoction, Huangqi Guizhi Wuwu Tang, and Wuwei Xiaodu Drink. The obvious problems found by this scoping review were the quantity and quality deficiency of the research in the diabetic foot in Asia. Scoping review is an effective method of evidence identification and synthesis, which can provide a basis for the further development of a certain field. In the further study of the diabetic foot, more attention should be paid to the verification of experimental data as well as the feasibility of the researches on oral drugs.                         Peer Review History: Received 6 March 2020; Revised 22 April; Accepted 4 May, Available online 15 May 2020 Academic Editor: Dr. Ali Abdullah Al-yahawi, Al-Razi university, Department of Pharmacy, Yemen, [email protected] UJPR follows the most transparent and toughest ‘Advanced OPEN peer review’ system. The identity of the authors and, reviewers will be known to each other. This transparent process will help to eradicate any possible malicious/purposeful interference by any person (publishing staff, reviewer, editor, author, etc) during peer review. As a result of this unique system, all reviewers will get their due recognition and respect, once their names are published in the papers. We expect that, by publishing peer review reports with published papers, will be helpful to many authors for drafting their article according to the specifications. Auhors will remove any error of their article and they will improve their article(s) according to the previous reports displayed with published article(s). The main purpose of it is ‘to improve the quality of a candidate manuscript’. Our reviewers check the ‘strength and weakness of a manuscript honestly’. There will increase in the perfection, and transparency. Received file:                Reviewer's Comments: Average Peer review marks at initial stage: 6.0/10 Average Peer review marks at publication stage: 8.0/10 Reviewer(s) detail: Dr. Sabah Hussien El-Ghaiesh, Tanta University, Egypt, [email protected]  Dr. Mohamed Derbali, Faculty of Pharmacy, Monastir, Tunisia, [email protected] Similar Articles: HOW DO VITAMIN AND PLANT SEEDS WORK AS HYPOLIPIDEMIC AGENTS ? TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE ENDOTHERAPY OF DIABETIC WOUNDS: A SCOPING REVIE

Multimodal Emotion Recognition Model using Physiological Signals

As an important field of research in Human-Machine Interactions, emotion recognition based on physiological signals has become research hotspots. Motivated by the outstanding performance of deep learning approaches in recognition tasks, we proposed a Multimodal Emotion Recognition Model that consists of a 3D convolutional neural network model, a 1D convolutional neural network model and a biologically inspired multimodal fusion model which integrates multimodal information on the decision level for emotion recognition. We use this model to classify four emotional regions from the arousal valence plane, i.e., low arousal and low valence (LALV), high arousal and low valence (HALV), low arousal and high valence (LAHV) and high arousal and high valence (HAHV) in the DEAP and AMIGOS dataset. The 3D CNN model and 1D CNN model are used for emotion recognition based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals and peripheral physiological signals respectively, and get the accuracy of 93.53% and 95.86% with the original EEG signals in these two datasets. Compared with the single-modal recognition, the multimodal fusion model improves the accuracy of emotion recognition by 5% ~ 25%, and the fusion result of EEG signals (decomposed into four frequency bands) and peripheral physiological signals get the accuracy of 95.77%, 97.27% and 91.07%, 99.74% in these two datasets respectively. Integrated EEG signals and peripheral physiological signals, this model could reach the highest accuracy about 99% in both datasets which shows that our proposed method demonstrates certain advantages in solving the emotion recognition tasks.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, 6 table

Natural gas sweetening using tailored ionic liquid-methanol mixed solvent with selective removal of H₂S and CO₂

Natural gas is often preferred in various energy applications due to its many advantages over conventional fossil fuels such as oil and coal. However, the removal of pollutants from natural gas, particularly hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2), requires complex treatment strategies, significantly impacting the cost of natural gas production. In this work, we propose a mixed solvent combining ionic liquid (IL) and methanol, which can selectively and simultaneously remove H2S and CO2 by customizing the IL structure and its ratio in the solvent. This purification process offers improved efficiency and energy savings compared to traditional methods. To determine the optimal IL structure in the mixed solvent, a computer-aided design method was employed. Through solving the formulated MINLP problem, the IL 1-methyl pyridinium trifluoroacetate ([C1OHPy][TFA]) was identified as having the highest affinity for H2S, making it suitable for use in the IL-methanol mixed solvent. Furthermore, the upgrading process of high-sulfur natural gas using the IL-methanol mixed solvent was simulated and evaluated, comparing it to the benchmark natural gas upgrading (Rectisol) process. The results demonstrate that the IL-methanol mixed solvent natural gas upgrading process achieved a 55.57 % power savings and reduced the annual total cost (TAC) by 23.90 % compared to the Rectisol process. These findings highlight the significant potential of our tailored IL-methanol mixed solvent in natural gas production.</p

Molecular genetic analysis of phosphomannomutase genes in Triticum monococcum

AbstractIn higher plants, phosphomannomutase (PMM) is essential for synthesizing the antioxidant ascorbic acid through the Smirnoff–Wheeler pathway. Previously, we characterized six PMM genes (TaPMM-A1, A2, B1, B2, D1 and D2) in common wheat (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD). Here, we report a molecular genetic analysis of PMM genes in Triticum monococcum (AmAm), a diploid wheat species whose Am genome is closely related to the A genome of common wheat. Two distinct PMM genes, TmPMM-1 and TmPMM-2, were found in T. monococcum. The coding region of TmPMM-1 was intact and highly conserved. In contrast, two main TmPMM-2 alleles were identified, with TmPMM-2a possessing an intact coding sequence and TmPMM-2b being a pseudogene. The transcript level of TmPMM-2a was much higher than that of TmPMM-2b, and a bacterially expressed TmPMM-2a recombinant protein displayed relatively high PMM activity. In general, the total transcript level of PMM was substantially higher in accessions carrying TmPMM-1 and TmPMM-2a than those harboring TmPMM-1 and TmPMM-2b. However, total PMM protein and activity levels did not differ drastically between the two genotypes. This work provides new information on PMM genes in T. monococcum and expands our understanding on Triticeae PMM genes, which may aid further functional and applied studies of PMM in crop plants

NMDA Receptors of Gastric-Projecting Neurons in the Dorsal Motor Nucleus of the Vagus Mediate the Regulation of Gastric Emptying by EA at Weishu (BL21)

A large number of studies have been conducted to explore the efficacy of electroacupuncture (EA) for the treatment of gastrointestinal motility. While several lines of evidence addressed the basic mechanism of EA on gastrointestinal motility regarding effects of limb and abdomen points, the mechanism for effects of the back points on gastric motility still remains unclear. Here we report that the NMDA receptor (NMDAR) antagonist kynurenic acid inhibited the gastric emptying increase induced by high-intensity EA at BL21 and agonist NMDA enhanced the effect of the same treatment. EA at BL21 enhanced NMDAR, but not AMPA receptor (AMPAR) component of miniature excitatory postsynaptic current (mEPSC) in gastric-projecting neurons of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV). In sum, our data demonstrate an important role of NMDAR-mediated synaptic transmission of gastric-projecting DMV neurons in mediating EA at BL21-induced enhancement of gastric emptying