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Nanotechnology From Engineers to Toxicologists
There is growing public perception that nanotechnology products are flourishing without sufficient care for the risks they pose to life, global, and local environments. The transparency of safety issues and impact on environment...
Public Health & Healthcare Delivery Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Healthcare Administration
Published by: IGI Global
DeLone and McLean Information Systems Success Model in a Blended-Learning Context
Ibrahim Alfaki
Oct 01, 2021
This study evaluates the success of the blended-learning mode in the context of a higher education institution in the Arabian Gulf region, utilizing the updated DeLone and McLean information systems success model. Students were...
Published by: IGI Global
Human Identification Using Electrocardiogram Signal as a Biometric Trait
Biometrics is an interesting study due to the incredible progress in security. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal analysis is an active research area for diagnoses. Various techniques have been proposed in human identification...
Published by: IGI Global
Analyzing Strategic Entrepreneurship Among Women Entrepreneurs of Jammu and Kashmir
In an emerging nation like India, entrepreneurship has the ability to present a solution for many problems related to the economy. The Union territory (UT) of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) has grave issues of high unemployment and low...
Published by: IGI Global
Sociotechnical Factors in the Endorsement of Governmental E-Transactions
The success of governmental e-transactions in developing countries is due to the effective utilization of information communication technology. The current literature reports that e-transactions can meet with citizen reluctance....
Published by: IGI Global
Training Effectiveness in Times of Austerity
Due to the fall in oil price, many companies are looking into ways to cut cost. Despite such cost-cutting efforts fuelled by the constant pressure for companies to stay competitive, the importance of training is still widely...
Published by: IGI Global
Exploring the Technological Impacts
Aside from educating the public, museums are adapting to the changing world as they have become one of the popular sites for cultural heritage tourism. Thus, from tourists and educational activities, they generate an increase in...
Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management
Published by: IGI Global
Review of Music in Conflict
Louis Brehony
Nov 12, 2021
The intensification of both Zionist repression and grassroots resistance across historic Palestine in May 2021 starkly contrasted Israel’s indiscriminate colonial terror with a revolutionary surge of young people embracing their...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Using Panel Data Analysis to Uncover Drivers of E-Participation Progress
This paper examines and uncovers the key drivers of e-participation progress or growth over the years, globally and regionally. The authors used fixed-effects regression model on a panel data of variables gathered by reputable...
Published by: IGI Global
Evaluating the Presence of Hospitals on Social Media
Today, adults are using social media to seek health information. Evidence suggests that hospitals using Instagram reported better patient engagement and in turn increased profit and reputation. Yet, little is known about how...
Published by: IGI Global
Accounting Information Systems (AIS) in SMEs
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...
Published by: IGI Global
Examining Voluntary Engagement Barriers in Knowledge Sharing Practices for Supply Chain Innovation
Voluntary engagement (VE) creates a sense of coordination and harmonization to share knowledge. The eminence of knowledge sharing (KS) for supply chain (SC) innovation is undeniable to initiate development in products, services...
Published by: IGI Global
Exploring Consumers' Intention to Adopt Mobile Payment Systems in Ghana
In this paper, we examined consumers’ intention to adopt and use mobile payment method in Ghana. Data for the study was obtained from a sample of 260 respondents through online and direct survey using structured questionnaire....
Published by: IGI Global
Linking Service Innovation to Organisational Performance
Banks are leveraging on innovation to address the major concerns of their employees including improvements in service delivery, operational efficiency, and enhancing the speed of transactions. The purpose for this study was to...
Published by: IGI Global
The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on SMEs Performance
There is currently a dearth of knowledge for human resource management under an SMEs context. As a result, it is assumed that human resource management based on large business organizations is applicable for SMEs at a smaller...
Published by: IGI Global
Effect of Social Environment on Brand Recall in Sports Video Games
Studies have shown that in-game advertisements can be effective. However, these studies typically examine single player scenarios. This study aimed to investigate the effects of social dynamics on brand awareness of in-game...
Published by: IGI Global
Gender Differentials on Information Sharing and Privacy Concerns on Social Networking Sites
This paper undertakes to explore the perceptions of academics regarding information sharing on social network sites (SNS) and related privacy issues. Specifically, the paper was designed targeting academics using SNS to...
Published by: IGI Global
User Antecedents, CRM Implementation, and Impact on Customer Outcomes in the Jordanian Service Industry
The implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has become increasingly important to scholars and practitioners over the last two decades. This study examined the relationships between user antecedents, CRM...
Published by: IGI Global
The Requirement Cube
Requirements engineering activities are carried out to come up with right and suitable quality requirements. However, problems in requirements engineering remain even though there is a vast amount of requirement elicitation and...
Published by: IGI Global
Optimal Placement of Micro Distribution Generator in Micro-Grid for Loss Minimization Using PSO
The major aim of DG optimal placement is obtaining the best DGs units sizes and locations so as to have optimum operation and planning of the distribution network system while considering DG capacity constraint. This paper...
Published by: IGI Global
Modelling Virtual Machine Workload in Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Platforms
Cloud computing, as a trend technology, has stemmed from the concept of virtualization. Virtualization makes the resources available to the public to use without any concern for ownership or maintenance cost. In addition, the...
Published by: IGI Global
A Simulation-Game for Resilience Assessments in a Payment System Disruption Scenario
This paper presents a quantitative agent-based simulation model of the everyday payment system used to simulate the business and consumer consequences of loss of functionality, or disruptions of the payment system for the food...
Published by: IGI Global
Benefits of Open Government Data Initiatives in Saudi Arabia and Barriers to Their Implementation
Ahmad Floos, Ibrahim Mutambik, Abdullah Almuqrin, Anastasija Nikiforova, Yulong Liu, Taha Omar
Nov 01, 2021
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives can deliver many cultural and institutional benefits. This is why many governments are trying to establish an OGD ecosystem. However, although many countries have made good progress in...
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of Supply Chain Integration and Agile Practices in Improving Lead Time During the COVID-19 Crisis
Long lead-time is hurting the competitiveness of the supply chain, while the shorter is considered to be better in order to add value to the customer and to improve the supply dependability. Supply chain integration increases...
Published by: IGI Global
An overview of clinical cerebral microdialysis in acute brain injury.
Matthew G Stovell, Adel Helmy, Eric P Thelin, Ibrahim Jalloh, Peter J Hutchinson, Keri L H Carpenter
Apr 09, 2023
Cerebral microdialysis may be used in patients with severe brain injury to monitor their cerebral physiology. In this article we provide a concise synopsis with illustrations and original images of catheter types, their...
Brain injury Neurocritical care subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Cerebral microdialysis cerebral physiology
Published by: Frontiers in neurology