Standing out from the affordable luxury brands: Can Coach be the next LVMH?

This exploratory research intends to study the improvement procedure for Coach and provide justification why and how Coach could be further developed

Fashion technology forecasting: From now to future

The purposes of this research were to further investigate how fashion has been driven by technology and to provide how fashion technology will be moving forward in the future

Extending the Technology Acceptance Model to Consumer Perceptions of Fashion AI

This research intends to investigate consumers\u27 acceptance and purchase intention towards a fashion AI device so as to predict how consumers\u27 fashion sense will be affected by new technologies. The extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used as theoretical framework, along with performance risk and positive technology attitudes. Empirical data (with 313 valid responses) were collected from top 10 metropolitan areas in the US via Qualtrics Panel services. Structural equation modeling and multiple group analysis were used to estimate construct validity and test the proposed hypotheses and theoretical framework. Results indicated that consumers’ acceptance and purchase intention were predicted by favorable attitudes toward the fashion AI device and positive technology attitude. Usefulness, ease of use, enjoyment, and performance risk significantly influence customers’ attitudes. Consumers of different levels of fashion involvement have various purchase intention. Theoretical and practical implications were presented

Characterization of Enterobacter cloacae isolated from street foods

A total of 78 samples comprising different types of street foods, sold in different locations in Malaysia, were examined for the presence of Enterobacter cloacae. E. cloacae contamination was recorded in 9% of the samples examined. Tests for susceptibility to 12 different antibiotics showed that all were resistant to six or more antibiotics, but susceptible to chloramphenicol and gentamicin. Plasmids of four different sizes were detected from the three plasmid positive isolates. RAPD analysis using four primers yielded completely different banding patterns for all E. cloacae studied. In Malaysia, no published information on street foods in the epidemiological investigation of E. cloacae related disease is available. However, their occurrences have provided compelling evidence that the risk of disease transmission caused by E. cloacae through street foods is moderate

Domain walls and the conductivity of mesoscopic ferromagnets

Quantum interference phenomena in the conductivity of mesoscopic ferromagnets are considered, particularly with regard to the effects of geometric phases acquired by electrons propagating through regions of spatially varying magnetization (due, e.g., to magnetic domain walls). Weak localization and electron-electron interaction quantum corrections to the conductivity and universal conductance fluctuations are discussed. Experiments are proposed for multiply-connected geometries that should reveal conductance oscillations with variations of the profile of the magnetization.Comment: 4 pages, 1 fugure, RevTEX, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let

Liverome: a curated database of liver cancer-related gene signatures with self-contained context information

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer worldwide. A number of molecular profiling studies have investigated the changes in gene and protein expression that are associated with various clinicopathological characteristics of HCC and generated a wealth of scattered information, usually in the form of gene signature tables. A database of the published HCC gene signatures would be useful to liver cancer researchers seeking to retrieve existing differential expression information on a candidate gene and to make comparisons between signatures for prioritization of common genes. A challenge in constructing such database is that a direct import of the signatures as appeared in articles would lead to a loss or ambiguity of their context information that is essential for a correct biological interpretation of a gene’s expression change. This challenge arises because designation of compared sample groups is most often abbreviated, <it>ad hoc</it>, or even missing from published signature tables. Without manual curation, the context information becomes lost, leading to uninformative database contents. Although several databases of gene signatures are available, none of them contains informative form of signatures nor shows comprehensive coverage on liver cancer. Thus we constructed Liverome, a curated database of liver cancer-related gene signatures with self-contained context information.</p> <p>Description</p> <p>Liverome’s data coverage is more than three times larger than any other signature database, consisting of 143 signatures taken from 98 HCC studies, mostly microarray and proteome, and involving 6,927 genes. The signatures were post-processed into an informative and uniform representation and annotated with an itemized summary so that all context information is unambiguously self-contained within the database. The signatures were further informatively named and meaningfully organized according to ten functional categories for guided browsing. Its web interface enables a straightforward retrieval of known differential expression information on a query gene and a comparison of signatures to prioritize common genes. The utility of Liverome-collected data is shown by case studies in which useful biological insights on HCC are produced.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Liverome database provides a comprehensive collection of well-curated HCC gene signatures and straightforward interfaces for gene search and signature comparison as well. Liverome is available at <url>http://liverome.kobic.re.kr</url>.</p

Quantum interference and electron-electron interactions at strong spin-orbit coupling in disordered systems

Transport and thermodynamic properties of disordered conductors are considerably modified when the angle through which the electron spin precesses due to spin-orbit interaction (SOI) during the mean free time becomes significant. Cooperon and Diffusion equations are solved for the entire range of strength of SOI. The implications of SOI for the electron-electron interaction and interference effects in various experimental settings are discussed.Comment: 4 pages, REVTEX, 1 eps.figure Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let

Nonequilibrium probe of paired electron pockets in the underdoped cuprates

We propose an experimental method that can be used generally to test whether the cuprate pseudogap involves precursor pairing that acts to gap out the Fermi surface. The proposal involves angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) performed in the presence of a transport current driven through the sample. We illustrate this proposal with a specific model of the pseudogap that contains a phase-incoherent paired electron and unpaired hole Fermi surfaces. We show that even a weak current tilts the paired band and reveals parts of the previously gapped electron Fermi surface in ARPES if the binding energy is smaller but close to the pseudogap. Stronger currents can also reveal the Fermi surface through direct suppression of pairing. The proposed experiment is sufficiently general such that it can be used to reveal putative Fermi surfaces that have been reconstructed from other types of periodic order and are gapped out due to pairing. The observation of the predicted phenomena should help resolve the central question about the existence of pairs in the enigmatic pseudogap regime.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures (published version

Seeing Red

Catalog for the exhibition Seeing Red held at the Seton Hall University Walsh Gallery, September 4 - October 20, 2018. Curated by Meghan Brady and Alexandra Henderson. Includes an essay by Meghan Brady and Alexandra Henderson. Includes color illustrations