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A Design Methodology for Modeling Flexible Business Processes
Business process flexibility is a major challenge since it is crucial to consider the current environment, which is becoming very fluctuating, and to adapt processes accordingly. To deal with this issue, version-based approach...
Published by: IGI Global
Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Socio-Economic Situation in Africa
Ebrima Ceesay
Apr 01, 2021
This article assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social and economic situation in Africa. The data used in this paper was generated from online survey questionnaire, in which the participants were asked questions...
Published by: IGI Global
Exploring the Role of Participation in Government Employees' Adoption of IT
Mariem Ben Rehouma
Jan 01, 2020
Employee participation in IT projects is considered to be a critical IT adoption factor in the public sector. However, research into the impact of participation on government employee adoption of IT is very limited. Therefore...
Published by: IGI Global
“Prophetic, Dreaming on the Mounds of Heaven”
Hölderlin, it must be said, was always ahead of his time! His was an experience of Heracleitean time, as the later hymns would conceive it, one in which the liveliness within poetry is transfigured into the ever-living fire of...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
Employees' Participation in IT-Projects in the Public Sector
Mariem Ben Rehouma
Apr 01, 2019
Employee participation in IT projects in the public sector is argued in the literature as a critical factor for the success and acceptance of IT. However, studies on employee participation reported on the lack of end-users...
Published by: IGI Global
Bio-Inspired Data Mining for Optimizing GPCR Function Identification
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...
Published by: IGI Global
The Rumble in the Meson
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We juxtapose global fits of two bottom-up models (an S 3 scalar leptoquark model and a...
Effective Number of Parties in Nova Scotia
Griffyn Geoffrey Chezenko
Aug 22, 2017
For nearly two decades, provincial general elections in Nova Scotia have been exciting contests among three parties. While no substantial changes have been made to the province's electoral process in that time, multiparty...
Canadian politics; Canadian provincial politics; Nova Scotia politics; electoral politics elections; political parties; party systems; Nova Scotia
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
An Analysis on Consumer Preference of Ayurvedic Products in Indian Market
With the growing awareness of lifestyle diseases and risk related to chemical-based products, there has been an increasing interest in green/natural products. The purpose of this study is to analyze the recent surge in the...
Published by: IGI Global
Unraveling Governance Issues in Global Sourcing of Accounting Services
As global accounting services continues to increase; firms need to be equipped with proper governance framework. The need for governance of global sourcing activities is being emphasized practically as well as academically. This...
Published by: IGI Global
On the Construction and Application of a Platform-Based Corpus in Tourism Translation Teaching
Current studies indicate that corpus-aided translation teaching may greatly improve teaching efficiency and better fulfill the stated teaching aim. On the basis of those findings, this research looks into the design and...
Published by: IGI Global
Removing Barriers from Choral Singing
Rita Ferrer Miquel, Ivet Farres i Cullell, Joan de la Creu Godoy Tomàs, Anna Ribera Gironell
Aug 04, 2017
Choral singing is a collaborative activity which educates singers so as to make them more competitive in today's world.People often judge or assess a choir by the way they sing, based on whether they like their voice or not....
Published by: The Singing Network
Teacher Experiences in Converting Classes to Distance Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The authors conducted a worldwide survey to explore the experiences of higher education faculty who converted classes to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most respondents experienced much higher workloads and...
Published by: IGI Global
Jack Marsh
May 04, 2009
In this paper, I examine Kearney's call for an ethical imagination from a specifically Levinasian perspective. I begin by reviewing Kearney's proposal, querying the structure of his ethical imagination. I then give a brief...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Effect of Technology Readiness on Individual Absorptive Capacity Toward Learning Behavior in Australian Universities
Recipient's absorptive capacity (ACAP) is a barrier to knowledge transfer in organizations. The technology readiness (TR) dimensions measure an individual's technological beliefs and aligns with the individual's ACAP. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Investigating Change Management Based on Participation and Acceptance of IT in the Public Sector
The digitalization of public administrations faces big challenges regarding employees' acceptance of IT. Change management approaches based on participation should help achieving acceptance and success of IT projects in the...
Published by: IGI Global
Effect of Preventive Maintenance on Machine Reliability in a Beverage Packaging Plant
This paper investigates the effect of preventive maintenance on the reliabilities of devices in a bottling plant. Six months of real-time maintenance data were analyzed quantitatively. Based on the breakdown events obtained for...
Published by: IGI Global
Building a Document-Oriented Warehouse Using NoSQL
The traditional data warehousing approaches should adapt to take into consideration novel needs and data structures. In this context, NoSQL technology is progressively gaining a place in the research and industry domains. This...
Published by: IGI Global
The effect of exercise interventions on quality of life in patients with multiple myeloma
PURPOSE: To determine the effect of exercise interventions on quality of life in adults with multiple myeloma. METHODS: A literature search of 10 sources was performed in June 2022 to identify eligible studies for synthesis....
The Role of Social Networks in the Development of Skills of Professional Communication
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of social networks in the formation of professional communication skills. With this aim in view, a number of training approaches initially used in class were adapted...
Published by: IGI Global
When Users Enjoy Using the System
This study utilized an extended model of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) to explore the factors influencing the future adoption of accounting information systems (AIS) by Qatari students. A...
Published by: IGI Global
A Thresholding Approach for Pollen Detection in Images Based on Simulated Annealing Algorithm
Melissopalynology is a field that studies pollen grain origins to identify their species. It consists of studying either the chemical composition of each grain, or their shapes using microscopic images. This paper presents a...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Dynamic Modelling and Performance Optimization-Based Sliding Mode Control of Process Drying in a Convective Tunnel Dryer
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...
Published by: IGI Global
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