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Sleep Time Is Yet To Come is to fictionalize an iridescent cube as a fluid happening site that mediates studio art practice, dance music, the art institution, and music clubs. In the real world, this iridescent cube has evolved into the form of the dance floor. The thesis analyzes the dilemma of my studio practice and its relationship with the institution, or the white cube. A studio is a vortex hub where art is fabricated, either mentally or physically. In my studio practice, I have been treating the whole studio as a medium to converse with the architecture with embodied interactions. On the other hand, I empathize with Robert Smithson's criticicism of the white cube as a lifeless void or refuge since the 1960s, and thus I found making finished artwork inside of the studio as an object to be displayed in the institutional site to be very limiting. Within the context of a low-residency MFA student's independent work in one's own local environment, the shelter of the white cube collided with the chaos of real life during my first year of grad school, and in the narrative language of the thesis, "an earthquake" happened in my studio. I decided to abandon studio practice in the second year. Along with sound practice in making electronic music, and the urge of going on the street for real "happenings" (in Allan Kaprow's term) in social space with the tendency of institutional rupture, I became a raver in underground dance parties; my embodied post-studio practice landed on the dance floor. A dance floor is a social (infra)structure which absorbs performance art, pop culture, relational aesthetics, sound art, technology, fashion, gathering and happening, body politics, and various genres of music. It is a commercialized space that allows social connections to happen. Compared to the white cube, the dance floor can be metaphorically thought of as an iridescent cube that allows me to embody my practice of synthesizing art and music, life and art. More precisely, the following elements of the iridescent cube will be discussed: the DJ-the artist who performs on the dimension of synchronized space/time; the crowd-as audience, dancers, and an emergent embodied social network; the electronic music-with its root in technology, is inherently cyborg music, or say, is a medium instantiation of information flow that can quantify the conscious and hijack body pulses; the ambient noises-as underlying forces that enable disruption, and as tools for potentially dangerous and disruptive mind-control. The conclusion of the thesis is to propagandize the idea of "reverse entropy" within this fictional cube. The form of the thesis is a remix of texts, including oral narratives, studio logs, a museum diary, academic arguments, poems and lyrics, in the manner and aesthetic of a DJ remix. Two different fonts are used to represent change of textual style, mimicking the situation of a DJ spinning two discs for switching between two different sources of sound.

In response to the rapidly growing demand for elderly care service in China, rational allocation of limited resources and improvement of public satisfaction have become one of the urgent problems to be solved in government procurement of elderly care services. With the aid of quality function deployment, a programming model is established to allocate resource with maximizing customer satisfaction. Taking home care service as an example, on the basis of identifying the elderly's requirements, designing attributes, optimal allocation of limited resource is conducted based on the proposed approach. Results show that staff in the home care service center should pay more attention to improve their service attitude and service quality. Meanwhile, more resources should also be allocated to improve the specialization of the franchise center, and to increase the provision of professional medical personnel and purchase of common medicines for emergencies as well as facilities for rehabilitation. This study expands the field of elderly care service by introducing a more efficient resource-allocation approach, thus helping governments in decision-making.

Purpose
Augmented reality (AR) has emerged as a novel communication tool, which adds virtual computer-generated information to a viewer's real life. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of AR technology on consumers' experience.


Design/methodology/approach
Four experiments were performed to test the effect of AR-based product display on the consumer's attitude and the underlying mechanism of the effect.


Findings
The results have demonstrated that self-referencing reality simulation mediates the effect of AR technology on consumers' product attitude, and the effect is attenuated when the consumers hold quality beliefs rather than taste beliefs or when the product is a luxury brand.


Practical implications
The current research suggests that managers should develop and adopt AR technology when presenting their products in front of consumers, which can improve consumers' product attitude. Additionally, emphasizing the taste of target products rather than quality will strengthen the positive effect of AR technology on product attitude. Furthermore, managers of luxury brands should present their products in a traditional way, which induce an exclusive perception rather than using AR technology.


Originality/value
This paper investigates the underlying mechanism of how AR technology improves consumers' product attitude and shopping experience, to fill the gap in consumers' unique experience with AR technology. Furthermore, the moderated effect of consumer beliefs and product difference has also been examined in this study, which attributes to the research of product differentiation.

Abstract
Objectives Patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) have a nearly fourfold greater risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) than those with acute ischemic stroke, and VTE after sICH is associated with high risk for in-hospital mortality. The benefit from prophylactic heparin for VTE remains uncertain because its safety is not documented. In this study, we used an updated meta-analysis to evaluate the safety of heparin for the prevention of VTE in patients with sICH.
Methods Electronic databases Medline and Embase from January 1990 to November 2017 and the Cochrane Library were searched using these keywords: intracerebral hemorrhage, stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, heparin, heparinoids, low-molecular-weight heparin, anticoagulants, prophylactic, low dose, prevention, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, venous thrombosis, randomized controlled trial, controlled clinical trial, and outcome. We evaluated the quality of included studies according to the bias risk in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions v.5.1.0. All statistical analyses were performed with RevMan v.5 software (Cochrane Collaboration, London, United Kingdom). Tests of heterogeneity were conducted with the Mantel-Haenszel method.
Results Nine studies involving 4,055 patients with sICH met the inclusion criteria in this meta-analysis. Of these studies, only one met all specific criteria and had a low probability of bias, whereas eight studies met only some of the criteria and had a moderate probability of bias. In comparison with non-heparin treatments, low-molecular-weight heparin or unfractionated heparin was associated with a nonsignificant increase in any hematoma enlargement, a nonsignificant reduction in extracranial hemorrhage, a nonsignificant increase in mortality, a nonsignificant increase in the number of modified Rankin Scale scores of 3 to 5, and a nonsignificant increase in numbers of Glasgow Outcome Scale scores of 2 to 3.
Conclusion Prophylactic heparin was associated with a nonsignificant increase in any hematoma enlargement and mortality, a nonsignificant reduction in extracranial hemorrhage, and a nonsignificant increase in the incidence of major disability in patients with sICH. It is probably safe to administer heparin to prevent VTE in patients with sICH.

Abstract
The natural environment is deteriorating. However, humans have not slowed down their pace of resource depletion and environmental destruction. This research takes a particular path to understanding environmental consumption—through a focus on temporal perspective. Evidence from six studies demonstrates the positive effect of a cyclical temporal perspective, versus a linear temporal perspective, on consumers' pro-environmental behavior. The research shows that individuals with a cyclical perspective are more likely to include the environment in the self, which leads to higher pro-environmental behavioral intentions and more pro-environmental behavior. This temporal perspective effect is attenuated for consumers already high on green values. The authors also examine a marketer-controlled moderator and show that consumers are more likely to purchase a pro-environmental product when they see a temporal-perspective-congruent promotional appeal. The research contributes to both the time perception and the environmental consumption literature and offers several practical implications for organizations to promote sustainable consumer behavior.

Fabrics are widely applied in various fields, such as body armor, aerospace industry and military equipment. This paper reports the semi-blunt puncture behavior of fabrics impregnated with a shear thickening fluid (STF), which is a dispersion system of nano silica/polyethylene glycol (SiO(2)/PEG). The rheological properties and microstructure of the STF were tested to evaluate the influence of SiO(2) particle size and additives (graphene nanoplatelets) on the puncture behavior of the final fabrics. The surface characteristics of neat and STF-treated fabrics were separately measured by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), which helps study the damage morphology and mechanism of the fabric. The surface characteristics of the silica nanoparticles and additives were also measured by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results demonstrated that the puncture behavior of the woven fabric was significantly enhanced due to the presence of STF. Moreover, the presence of additive GNPs induced a relatively lower shear thickening phenomenon, while a significant enhancement in the semi-blunt puncture behavior of the woven fabric was observed.

AbstractTo increase game loyalty but decrease game addiction, this study examines online game social migration and tests the mediating effects of offline social value and maladaptive cognition on the basis of the theory of consumption value and the cognitive behavioral model of pathological Internet use. The results are as follows: (i) Overall, online game social migration is associated with greater game loyalty and less game addiction; (ii) The positive association between online game social migration and game loyalty was mediated by offline social value; and (iii) Online game social migration is associated with lower game addiction. This paper provides a new perspective (taking into account both business interests and players' psychological health) for online game research and also offers practical guidance for cooperation between game companies and the public. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.