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The Effect of Online Reviews on Movie Box Office Sales
Due to the rapidly growth of social media, potential moviegoers always depend on the online reviews to make their purchase decisions. Film companies need to know what aspects of reviews will drive sales up or down. This study...
Published by: IGI Global
Do You Speak Chinese, Mandarin, or Cantonese? An Explanation Based on a Native Chinese Speaker’s Early Experience
Cheng Li
Dec 20, 2018
This article reports on my early experiences with learning and speaking varieties of Chinese, responding to the curious questions on the power relationship between Mandarin and other dialects in China today. A series of...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Typological Parameters for the Lexica-syntactic Structures of High-digit Numerical Expressions
Cheng Luo
Jul 30, 2013
The objective of this paper is to explore the lexico-syntactic structure of high-digit numerical expressions (henceforth HDNEs), normally with 4 digits and more, and to propose a set of typological parameters to account for...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Grammatical Relations, Transitivity and Ergativity
Cheng Luo
Sep 05, 2013
Keenan and Comrie's Accessibility Hierarchy (AH) applied to clefting predicts greater c1eftability of subject (s U) than direct object (DO). However, in some Eastern Austronesian languages, particularly Tongan, some transitive...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
The Impact of Automated Investment on Peer-to-Peer Lending
In the face of fierce competition, many peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms have introduced automated investment tools to serve customers better. Based on a large sample of data from PPdai.com, the authors studied the impact of...
Published by: IGI Global
The Research of Social Network Analysis on College Students' Interactive Relations
Nowadays the number of college students' suicides are increasing for the insufficient social support or poor interpersonal relations. Furthermore, not much attention has been concerned to students' interpersonal relations when...
Published by: IGI Global
Spammer Group Detection Using Machine Learning Technology for Observation of New Spammer Behavioral Features
Recently, the rapid growth in the number of customer reviews on e-commence platforms and in the amount of user-generated content has begun to have a profound impact on customer purchasing decisions. To counter the negative...
Published by: IGI Global
AI for Health-Related Data Modeling
Na Cheng
Jul 01, 2022
Data modeling of health-related data from Data Center (DC) has positive effects for health monitoring, disease prevention, and healthcare research. However, health-related data has the characteristics of huge, high-dimensional...
Published by: IGI Global
Behavior Analysis of Customer Churn for a Customer Relationship System
This article describes how the bank industry in Taiwan must function in today's tough and fiercely competitive domestic credit card market and subdued global market. Banks are increasingly emphasizing the importance of retaining...
Published by: IGI Global
A New Resource Recovery Process for Refining Sludge Generated by a Paper Manufacturing Company
A new sludge processing method was developed by the Beta Company, a paper manufacturing company. The new method will shorten the time for transforming sludge into organic fertilizers, which will improve the process of handling...
Published by: IGI Global
The Study of Para-Social Interaction With E-Word-of-Mouth for Influencer Marketing by Complex Computing
The purpose of this study was focused on exploring the relationship among the fans’ preferences, fans’ para-social interaction, and fans’ word-of-mouth. A survey consisted of 21 items based on the literature review and developed...
Published by: IGI Global
Are the relationships between mental health issues and being left-behind gendered in China
BACKGROUND: While most existing studies reveal left-behind children (LBC) are prone to suffering from mental health issues, some other literature fails to develop a statistical significance between being left-behind and facing...
Application of CSK Encryption Algorithm in Video Synergic Command Systems
Video command and dispatch systems have become essential communication safeguard measures in circumstances of emergency rescue, epidemic prevention, and control command as, data security has become especially important. After...
Published by: IGI Global
Book Review
In recent years, wearable and mobile technologies have been applied in different domains such as medical, personal safety, sports, and lifestyle computing (Cheng & Mitomo, 2017). Wearable technologies may help users bring their...
Published by: IGI Global
From Visual Culture in the Immersive Metaverse to Visual Cognition in Education
Hsiao-Cheng Han
May 22, 2020
This chapter discusses visual culture in the immersive metaverse through the visual cognition lens. Visual cognition pertains to how we learn through visual means. As educators, we should be aware of how our students learn...
Educational Technologies Education Educational Technologies Computer Science and Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
Developmental Trajectory of the American Yacht Clubs
The yacht industry is one of the leading industries used to guide residents’ increase in consumption. This study analyzes the evolving spatial pattern of yacht clubs in the United States from 1900-2017, aiming to explore the...
Published by: IGI Global
User's Segmentation on Continued Knowledge Management System Use in the Public Sector
Chi-Cheng Huang
Jan 01, 2020
Knowledge management systems (KMS) can help an organization support knowledge management activities and thereby increase organizational performance. This study extends the expectation-confirmation model for predicting mandatory...
Published by: IGI Global
Tourism-Driven Mobilities
Mobilities discourse, regardless of its vital significance in day-to-day life, is under examined. It draws researchers' attention at theoretical level showing significant absence of empirical studies. The absence of a scale to...
Published by: IGI Global
Deep Learning Model for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition for Natural Human-Machine Interface on End Devices
As end devices have become ubiquitous in daily life, the use of natural human-machine interfaces has become an important topic. Many researchers have proposed the frameworks to improve the performance of dynamic hand gesture...
Published by: IGI Global
Intelligent Multiparameter Fiber-Optic Sensing for Ocean Observation
With the increasing needs for the protection of marine and fresh water environment, there is surging demand for effective technologies to monitor different environmental parameters. Among different new technologies, fiber-optic...
Westernization and Music in China during and after the Qing Dynasty
Anna Chen
Jan 30, 2014
Before the Revolution of 1911, China was a mighty empire dominated by various Chinese ethnic groups in different time periods. In particular, the Han people of the Tang1 and Ming Dynasty and the Man people of the Qing Dynasty2...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Exploring the Influential Factors of Continuous Online Shopping Intention
Cheng-Mei Tung
Jan 01, 2022
This study explores consumers' continuous intention regarding online shopping in Taiwan. The technology acceptance model and expectation confirmation model are integrated to explore the influential factors in the continuous...
Published by: IGI Global
From Visual Culture in the Immersive Metaverse to Visual Cognition in Education
Hsiao-Cheng Han
Dec 19, 2022
This chapter discusses visual culture in the immersive metaverse through the visual cognition lens. Visual cognition pertains to how we learn through visual means. As educators, we should be aware of how our students learn...
Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality Computer Science and Information Technology Human-Computer Interaction Media and Communications Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global
Cantonese Children's Songs in Hong Kong
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Nov 19, 2013
A century of British colonial rule over a population of Chinese majority has resulted in a special culture of Hong Kong. While the local people have maintained a considerable amount of the traditional Chinese culture, a very...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Multiphoton excited singlet/triplet mixed self-trapped exciton emission.
Rui Zhou, Laizhi Sui, Xinbao Liu, Kaikai Liu, Dengyang Guo, Wenbo Zhao, Shiyu Song, Chaofan Lv, Shu Chen, Tianci Jiang, Zhe Cheng, Sheng Meng, ChongXin Shan
Apr 11, 2023
Multiphoton excited luminescence is of paramount importance in the field of optical detection and biological photonics. Self-trapped exciton (STE) emission with self-absorption-free advantages provide a choice for multiphoton...
Published by: Nature Communications
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