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Service, Openness and Engagement as Digitally-Based Enablers of Public Value?
Jeffrey Roy
Jul 01, 2019
Public value creation is increasingly viewed as a central pivot of a government's digital transformation. The objective of this article is twofold: to better understand some of the major inhibitors of public value creation...
Published by: IGI Global
Smart Technologies, Digital Competencies, and Workforce Development
A mixed methods case study of the Government of Canada provides a lens through which the skills development and training and development challenges confronting the public sector in an era of digitization and smart technologies...
Published by: IGI Global
Trumping Reason
Roy Schwartzman
Jun 04, 2021
Why does support for Donald Trump remain resilient despite the preponderance of arguments and evidence that should refute so many of his claims? The answer lies in how Trump's rhetoric fully embraces intuitively based rationales...
Published by: IGI Global
Working Inside the Box
Societal and financial changes impacting higher education present great opportunities alongside great risks to traditional, large public institutions. While many such colleges and universities have defined goals to enroll more...
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Published by: IGI Global
Racial Diversity in Publicly Traded Companies
This article shares some of the results of a thesis investigating the relationship between the racial diversity of the board of directors in Canadian companies that traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). The central...
Published by: IGI Global
The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Female-Owned Small to Medium Enterprises
This study sought to understand the impact of financial inclusion on female-owned small to medium enterprises in Harare urban of Zimbabwe. A mixed methodology was used for the study while a case study of Siyaso Market in Harare...
Published by: IGI Global
The Principle of the World and the Call to Faith
Jeffrey Bloechl
May 14, 2013
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
COVIDiots and Cogency
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States spawns a perplexing polemic. Intransigent coronavirus skeptics who defy public health recommendations often get cast as ideological zealots or as perniciously ignorant. Both...
Published by: IGI Global
Risky Jews
Roy Schwartzman
Jun 04, 2021
Focusing on many previously untranslated articles in popular national magazines and newspapers, as well as works by prominent racial theorists, this chapter traces how outrage was systematically fomented against Jews in Nazi-era...
Published by: IGI Global
Whale Optimization Algorithm-Based DG Allotment for Loss Minimization of Distribution Networks
For optimum placement of distributed generation (DG) units in balanced radial distribution network for loss minimization, implementation of whale optimization algorithm (WOA), a state-of-the-art meta-heuristic optimization...
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Oppositional GOA Applied to Renewable Energy-Based Multi-Objective Economic Emission Dispatch
The renewable economic emission transmit is a significant and new assignment in the modern power system. This article develops oppositional grasshopper optimization algorithm (OGOA) which depends on the social dealings of the...
Published by: IGI Global
Impact of Service Quality on Satisfaction
In this present work, Retail Service Quality Scale (RSQS) developed by Dabholkar et. al. (1996) has been used to measure service quality. For the purpose of examining the dimensionality of the scales a confirmatory factor...
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Melanoma Detection From Lesion Images Using Optimized Features Selected by Metaheuristic Algorithms
This paper deals with a simple but efficient method for detection of deadly malignant melanoma with optimized hand-crafted feature sets selected by three alternative metaheuristic algorithms, namely Particle Swarm Optimization...
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Sachs, Easterly and the Banality of the Aid Effectiveness Debate
Daniel Miller
Jan 26, 2012
Abstract: The debate over the effectiveness in foreign aid has existed for decades. Recently it has come to the fore due to the prominence of work and subsequent publicity of Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly. The debate these...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Backtracking Search Algorithm With Single and Multi-Objective Function for the Solution of Optimal Power Flow Problem
This manuscript investigates the performance of the backtracking search algorithm (BSA) to minimize various objectives for an economical and secure power system. A variety of single and multi - objectives are delineated and...
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Overview of Big Data-Intensive Storage and its Technologies for Cloud and Fog Computing
Computing systems are becoming increasingly data-intensive because of the explosion of data and the needs for processing the data, and subsequently storage management is critical to application performance in such data-intensive...
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Beyond the Rupture
Meighan Mantei
Dec 12, 2021
This article presents an autoethnographic exploration into the disruption of my PhD field research with children and youth because of the COVID-19 pandemic. My exploration bridges what Roy has called the “rupture” of the...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Can Social Media Make Us More Trusting?
The usage of social networking sites requires continuous trusting actions through the sharing of personal information. According to social cognitive theory, such behavior and resulting experiences should have an impact on the...
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Technological and Disruptive Innovations in a Nation's Industrialization and Leadership Development
The turn of this new century has been witnessing the effort of various leading developed and developing countries in their attempt to materialize next round of industrialization by emphasizing on innovations. To potentially...
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Ranking Barriers of Supply Chain Management by MCDM Method During Disaster Management
Disasters are often described as a result of the combination of the exposure to a hazard, the conditions of vulnerability that are present, and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative...
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Determinants of Influencer Credibility and Platform Credibility to Understand the Effectiveness of Indian Fashion Influencers
The concept of influencer marketing refers to the use of selected influencers to create and promote branded content to the influencer’s followers and the brand’s selected target market. Fashion Influencers on social media are...
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Evaluation of Diagnostic Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms to Classify the Fetal Heart Rate Baseline From Cardiotocograph
Cardiotocography (CTG) is the widely used cost-effective, non-invasive technique to monitor the fetal heart and mother’s uterine contraction pressure to assess the wellbeing of the fetus. The most important parameters of fetal...
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