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The Effect of Reciprocity on Mobile Wallet Intention
The authors build on the literature on reciprocity by exploring a prevalent social and economic phenomenon in the Philippines where individuals with positive mobile phone balances can SMS loads to acquaintances. This practice is...
Published by: IGI Global
A Radial Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithm for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem
Ricardo Pérez-Rodríguez
Jan 01, 2022
The job-shop environment has been widely studied under different approaches. It is due to its practical characteristic that makes its research interesting. Therefore, the job-shop scheduling problem continues being attracted to...
Published by: IGI Global
Recommendation System for Sightseeing Tours
This research proposes a model of a recommendation system (RS) for tourist itineraries. The RS suggests tips of what to visit in a city, based on the available time, personal preferences, current geo-location, and the user's...
Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management
Published by: IGI Global
A Physiological-Monitoring Electronic Platform for Cattle Grazing Systems
Ricardo Santos, Fabiana Alves, Patrik Bressan, Ricardo Aguiar, Wellington Santos, Rafael Costa
Jul 01, 2020
In this work, we present a non-invasive electronic platform for physiological data acquisition on cattle grazing systems. The platform can be used for dairy and beef cattle to continuously monitor physiological variables such as...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Price Strategy, Market Orientation, and Business Performance in the Hotel Industry
This study seeks to study the relationship between market orientation and business performance and to evaluate the mediating effect of adopting a low-price strategy in this relationship in the hotel industry. A sample from the...
Published by: IGI Global
Ingestive Behaviour Activities Based on Bioacoustic Signals in Grazing Cattle
This work focuses on the development of an autonomous, electronic platform based on bioacoustic techniques to monitor animal sounds related to ingestive activities and sub-activities in beef cattle. The authors have developed an...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
The Prevalence of Information Technology in Indonesia's Accredited Hospitals
During the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia, examination and relaying of important health information were done with the support of information technology. Therefore, this study measure information technology (IT) within hospitals...
Published by: IGI Global
Self and Peer E-Assessment
In recent years, universities and other academic institutions have been performing collaborative learning to improve the students' skills, competencies, and learning outcomes. The problem-based learning approach is a learning...
Published by: IGI Global
Post-COVID-19 syndrome risk factors and further use of health services in East England.
Maciej Debski, Vasiliki Tsampasian, Shawn Haney, Katy Blakely, Samantha Weston, Eleana Ntatsaki, Mark Lim, Susan Madden, Aris Perperoglou, Vassilios S Vassiliou
Apr 17, 2023
Post-COVID syndrome, defined as symptoms persisting for more than twelve weeks after the diagnosis of COVID-19, has been recognised as a new clinical entity in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study was conducted to...
Published by: PLOS global public health
Profiling IT Security and Interoperability in Brazilian Health Organisations From a Business Perspective
Rui Rijo, Ricardo Martinho, Adicinéia Oliveira, Domingos Alves, Zilma Reis, Cátia Santos-Pereira, Manuel Correia, Luís Antunes, Ricardo Cruz-Correia
Apr 01, 2020
The proliferation of electronic health (e-Health) initiatives in Brazil over the last 2 decades has resulted in a considerable fragmentation within health information technology (IT), with a strong political interference. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Benchmarking Serverless Computing
With the increasing adoption of serverless computing, there is a need for a benchmark. The aim of this paper is to present such a benchmark based on performance and usability testing to better understand serverless services as...
Published by: IGI Global
A Comparative Study of Energy Big Data Analysis for Product Management in a Smart Factory
Energy has been obtained as one of the key inputs for a country's economic growth and social development. Analysis and modeling of industrial energy are currently a time-insertion process because more and more energy is consumed...
Published by: IGI Global
Purchase Intention in the Fashion Industry on Local and International E-Commerce in Indonesia
The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of the two categories of sales promotional tools (monetary and non-monetary) on purchase intention with the consideration of consumers’ perceived quality for fashion products...
Published by: IGI Global
Familiarity with, perceptions of and attitudes toward butterflies of urban park users in megacities across East and Southeast Asia
Voon-Ching Lim, Kong-Wah Sing, Kwek Yan Chong, Narong Jaturas, Hui Dong, Ping-Shin Lee, Nguyen Thien Tao, Dzung Trung Le, Timothy C. Bonebrake, Toby P. N. Tsang, Leo Chu, Guo-Jie Brandon-Mong, Wye-Lup Kong, Masashi Soga, John-James Wilson
Apr 17, 2023
Ecology conservation and global change biology RESEARCH ARTICLES Butterflies CONSERVATION human–wildlife interactions megacities nature experiences urban wildlife
Published by: The Royal Society
Suppression of Soil Dust Emissions from Large-Scale Construction Sites Using Starch and Polyvinyl Alcohol
Jong-Soo Choi, Dong-Su Kim, Yu-Lim Choi, Lakshmi Lingamdinne, Janardhan Koduru, Jae-Kyu Yang, Yoon-Young Chang
Jul 01, 2019
Soil dust emitted from large-scale construction sites in urban areas impacts air quality and creates a severe health threat to residents. Water spraying is commonly practiced to lower dust emission in construction sites, but its...
Published by: IGI Global
Benefits Measurement of a Plan to Reduce Hypertension in a Healthcare Foundation Using the BCTool
Leandro Pereira, Vânia Patrício, António Fernandes, José Santos, Ricardo Santos, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Simões
Nov 01, 2021
The hypertension is a well know problem and associated with a high salt consuming is one of the commonest chronic diseases.To measure the impact of this consuming it has been applied the methodology provided by the Business Case...
Published by: IGI Global
Targeting earlier diagnosis
Colin F Munro, Ratko Yurac, Zipser Carl Moritz, Michael G Fehlings, Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto, James Milligan, Konstantinos Margetis, Mark R N Kotter, Benjamin M Davies
Apr 17, 2023
Background
Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a common and disabling condition. Early effective treatment is limited by late diagnosis. Conventional descriptions of DCM focus on motor and sensory limb disability...
Published by: PLOS ONE
Bridging pre-surgical endocrine therapy for breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rajiv V Dave, Beatrix Elsberger, Vicky P Taxiarchi, Ashu Gandhi, Cliona C Kirwan, Baek Kim, Elizabeth M Camacho, Charlotte E Coles, Ellen Copson, Alona Courtney, Kieran Horgan, Patricia Fairbrother, Chris Holcombe, Jamie J Kirkham, Daniel R Leff, Stuart A McIntosh, Rachel O'Connell, Ricardo Pardo, Shelley Potter, Tim Rattay, Nisha Sharma, Raghavan Vidya, Ramsey I Cutress, B-MaP-C study collaborative
Apr 17, 2023
PURPOSE: The B-MaP-C study investigated changes to breast cancer care that were necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we present a follow-up analysis of those patients commenced on bridging endocrine therapy (BrET), whilst...
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.
Nick Shrine, Abril G Izquierdo, Jing Chen, Richard Packer, Robert J Hall, Anna L Guyatt, Chiara Batini, Rebecca J Thompson, Chandan Pavuluri, Vidhi Malik, Brian D Hobbs, Matthew Moll, Wonji Kim, Ruth Tal-Singer, Per Bakke, Katherine A Fawcett, Catherine John, Kayesha Coley, Noemi Nicole Piga, Alfred Pozarickij, Kuang Lin, Iona Y Millwood, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, Sara R A Wijnant, Lies Lahousse, Guy Brusselle, Andre G Uitterlinden, Ani Manichaikul, Elizabeth C Oelsner, Stephen S Rich, R Graham Barr, Shona M Kerr, Veronique Vitart, Michael R Brown, Matthias Wielscher, Medea Imboden, Ayoung Jeong, Traci M Bartz, Sina A Gharib, Claudia Flexeder, Stefan Karrasch, Christian Gieger, Annette Peters, Beate Stubbe, Xiaowei Hu, Victor E Ortega, Deborah A Meyers, Eugene R Bleecker, Stacey B Gabriel, Namrata Gupta, Albert Vernon Smith, Jian'an Luan, Jing-Hua Zhao, Ailin F Hansen, Arnulf Langhammer, Cristen Willer, Laxmi Bhatta, David Porteous, Blair H Smith, Archie Campbell, Tamar Sofer, Jiwon Lee, Martha L Daviglus, Bing Yu, Elise Lim, Hanfei Xu, George T O'Connor, Gaurav Thareja, Omar M E Albagha, Karsten Suhre, Raquel Granell, Tariq O Faquih, Pieter S Hiemstra, Annelies M Slats, Benjamin H Mullin, Jennie Hui, Alan James, John Beilby, Karina Patasova, Pirro Hysi, Jukka T Koskela, Annah B Wyss, Jianping Jin, Sinjini Sikdar, Mikyeong Lee, Sebastian May-Wilson, Nicola Pirastu, Katherine A Kentistou, Peter K Joshi, Paul R H J Timmers, Alexander T Williams, Robert C Free, Xueyang Wang, John L Morrison, Frank D Gilliland, Zhanghua Chen, Carol A Wang, Rachel E Foong, Sarah E Harris, Adele Taylor, Paul Redmond, James P Cook, Anubha Mahajan, Lars Lind, Teemu Palviainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli T Raitakari, Jaakko Kaprio, Taina Rantanen, Kirsi H Pietiläinen, Simon R Cox, Craig E Pennell, Graham L Hall, W James Gauderman, Chris Brightling, James F Wilson, Tuula Vasankari, Tarja Laitinen, Veikko Salomaa, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Nicholas J Timpson, Eleftheria Zeggini, Josée Dupuis, Caroline Hayward, Ben Brumpton, Claudia Langenberg, Stefan Weiss, Georg Homuth, Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Alanna C Morrison, Ozren Polasek, Igor Rudan, Joo-Hyeon Lee, Ian Sayers, Emma L Rawlins, Frank Dudbridge, Edwin K Silverman, David P Strachan, Robin G Walters, Andrew P Morris, Stephanie J London, Michael H Cho, Louise V Wain, Ian P Hall, Martin D Tobin
Apr 13, 2023
Lung Humans Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Genetic Predisposition to Disease Smoking Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Genome-Wide Association Study
Published by: Nature genetics
CEERS Key Paper. III. The Diversity of Galaxy Structure and Morphology at z = 3–9 with JWST
Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Caitlin Rose, Brittany N. Vanderhoof, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Luca Costantin, Isabella G. Cox, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Dale D. Kocevski, Stijn Wuyts, Henry C. Ferguson, Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein, Ricardo O. Amorín, Brett H. Andrews, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Bren E. Backhaus, Peter Behroozi, Laura Bisigello, Antonello Calabrò, Caitlin M. Casey, Rosemary T. Coogan, M. C. Cooper, Darren Croton, Alexander de la Vega, Mark Dickinson, Adriano Fontana, Maximilien Franco, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Nimish P. Hathi, Benne W. Holwerda, Marc Huertas-Company, Kartheik G. Iyer, Shardha Jogee, Intae Jung, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Anton M. Koekemoer, James Liu, Jennifer M. Lotz, Ray A. Lucas, Jeffrey A. Newman, Camilla Pacifici, Viraj Pandya, Casey Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Jayse Petersen, Nor Pirzkal, Marc Rafelski, Swara Ravindranath, Raymond C. Simons, Gregory F. Snyder, Rachel S. Somerville, Elizabeth R. Stanway, Amber N. Straughn, Sandro Tacchella, Jonathan R. Trump, Jesús Vega-Ferrero, Stephen M. Wilkins, Guang Yang, Jorge A. Zavala
Apr 14, 2023
We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the morphological and structural properties of a large sample of galaxies at z = 3–9 using early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) CEERS NIRCam observations. Our sample...
Published by: The American Astronomical Society