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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
Effect of Security Challenges on Library Resources in the Federal University of Lafia Library, Nasarawa State
The study looks at security challenges, causes and effects of security challenges on the resources, types of collection that are more vulnerable to security breaches, challenges encountered in combating the breaches, measures to...
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
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
The Failure of the Kamaishi Protection Breakwater
Jacob Tucker
Apr 09, 2013
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Biofuels, A Sustainable Alternative to Fossil Fuels?
Jacob P. Dinn
Aug 22, 2017
Finding a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels is important for mitigating climate change. Currently, there is no sustainable alternative to fossil fuels that is affordable, accessible, and manageable on a global scale. A...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Digital Badge Use in Specific Learner Groups
As educational technology continues to advance, new technologies continue to enter the scene that seek to enhance the delivery and reception of learning in both academic and industry settings. Digital badges are a recent...
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...
An Empirical Study of Artificial Participants
This study is an investigation of artificial participants operating in their appropriate environment. The artificial participants in this study are artificial chess players and their appropriate environment is a chess game. This...
Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology Global Information Technology
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
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....
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
Ethnicity, Regime Type and the Tendency for Violence
Jacob P Dinn
Sep 11, 2018
Within the study of ethnicity and violence, there is a compelling puzzle: the number of ethnic groups in the world exceeds the number of violent ethnic conflicts. This puzzle alludes to an important question: what explains the...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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
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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
Impact of Workplace Diversity on Employee Performance
The authors explore how the milieu of workplace diversity affects the relationship between employee and performance. In particular, we theorize and empirically examine the moderating effects of four (4) categories of diversity...
Published by: IGI Global
Differences in Distance and Spatial Effects on Cross-Border E-Commerce and International Trade
Distance and space are important factors affecting international trade, but they have different effects on cross-border e-commerce (CBE) due to the creation of the Internet. This study utilizes spatial autocorrelation, the...
Published by: IGI Global
Predictive Data Mining Model for Electronic Customer Relationship Management Intelligence
The rising adoption of e-CRM strategies in marketing and customer relationship management has necessitated to more needs especially where a specific customer segment is targeted and the services are personalized. This paper...
Published by: IGI Global
An End-to-End Efficient Lucene-Based Framework of Document/Information Retrieval
In the context of big data and the 4.0 industrial revolution era, enhancing document/information retrieval frameworks efficiency to handle the ever‐growing volume of text data in an ever more digital world is a must. This...
Published by: IGI Global
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