Drawing on three theories; uses and gratification, social identity, and reasoned action, this study investigates the moderating role of type of participation and the sport fanaticism between brand community identification (BCI)...
The main aim of this study is to explore the gender gap in online shopping in the Turkish population. The gender gap in internet use and online shopping is investigated using the results of annual national surveys on Information...
This paper proposes a method based on a new word embedding approach for matching business process model. The proposed method aligns two process models in four steps. First activity labels are extracted and pre-processed to...
Information and Communication Technologies advancement is influencing life-style. Making human being involved in the evolution of the life process, information and communication technology has been changing changes every...
The number and the scale of natural disasters have drastically increased over the last decades. One of the most vital stages of disaster preparedness is disaster response planning, and it plays an important role in limiting...
The ability to attract tourists is crucial for the success of tourism firms in Malaysia. This has therefore raised a major concern on which information sources tourists use when making choices on their traveling mode as well as...
This article explores the gender digital divide in e-government use in Turkey. Historical trends and differences in internet and e-government use by males and females are investigated. The findings of this study indicate that...
Medical language, as many technical languages, is rich with morphologically complex words. The increasing number of foreign words and specific terms incorporated into the native language are due to the ongoing development of...
E-learning utilizing information systems framework has been booming in information systems. This paper covers the systematic performance evaluation results process, and understanding how e-learning utilizing information system...
Understanding how herd behavior occurs in the information systems context is important because such behavior influences many choice decisions, is the reason for some decision anomalies, and explains the reasons behind the rise...
This exploratory study aims to assess and investigate Brunei Darussalam’s readiness in developing and applying big data technologies for its public and private sectors, using Social, Technological, Environmental and Policy...
In this work, we thoroughly investigate the use of sliding mode control for nonlinear systems, specially its application for the control of dryer designed for drying food products. A dynamic model of the drying process has been...
High concentrations of nutrients canincrease algal growth in coastal marine systems. The growth of harmful algal blooms (HAB’s) has become common in UAE, especially in late 2008 and early 2009 when a huge HAB event devastated...
Occurrences of harmful algal blooms (HAB) in coastal regions have been increasing both in frequency and magnitude in the last few decades. The coasts of United Arab Emirates UAE have been affected by massive HABs in 2008 and...
The Cubic Cell Formation Problem (CCFP) in cellular manufacturing systems consists in decomposing a production system into a set of manufacturing cells, and assigning workers to cells besides parts and machines. The major...
This paper investigates the influence of national culture on customers' behavior and customers' choice of channel through the customer life cycle stages. An exploratory in-depth single case study in a multinational organization...
Knowledge extraction within a healthcare field is a very challenging task since we are having many problems such as noise and imbalanced datasets. They are obtained from clinical studies where uncertainty and variability are...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the performance of one belt, one road in member countries in the effects of bilateral trade. The sample for this study includes 67 countries along the route for the period between 2013 and...
Small-medium enterprises (SMEs) have always been considered to be the backbone of Brunei's economy. As published by the OECD in 2006, SMEs constitute a high percentage of businesses, where they account for 98% of all active...
Many of the employers fear a reduction in productivity when employees use social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook for non-work purposes during office hours. Employers then have started regulating SNSs usage at work, but...
Predicting energy consumption has been a substantial topic because of its ability to lessen energy wastage and establish an acceptable overall operational efficiency. Thus, this research aims at creating a meta-heuristic-based...
As the human race continues to populate all reaches of our planet, the amount of land available for inhabitation becomes drastically decreased. This is particularly relevant in the case of premier property locations on the...
EEG analysis aims to help scientists better understand the brain, help physicians diagnose and treatment choices of the brain-computer interface. Artificial neural networks are among the most effective learning algorithms to...
GPCR are the largest family of cell surface receptors; many of them still remain orphans. The GPCR functions prediction represents a very important bioinformatics task. It consists in assigning to the protein, the corresponding...
The goal of the present study was to remediate membrane fouling of latex effluent by altering the membrane surface charge or the ionic strength of simulated latex effluent either through the pH change or using anionic...