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Newcomer Integration and Academic Support in Newfoundland and Labrador
This article extracts eight points for discussion from many years of research in newcomer academic support and social integration in Newfoundland and Labrador. These points include: transportation to school for newcomer...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Diagnosing Service Success and Failure Incidents in the Consumer-to-Business Sharing Economy
This study uses the critical incident technique to collect and analyze incidents of service failure and success involving a logistics sharing service in which the service providers are individuals. The authors also explore the...
Published by: IGI Global
Reversible Data Hiding Based on Adaptive Block Selection Strategy
Recently, a reversible data hiding (RDH) method was proposed based on local histogram shifting. This method selects the peak bin of the local histogram as a reference and expands the two neighboring bins of the peak bin to carry...
Published by: IGI Global
Newcomers, Creative Spaces, and Connection Through Art
Historically, the island of Newfoundland has had a culturally homogeneous population. For this reason, newcomers report a distressing insider/outsider dynamic of disconnect and challenges accessing local social support systems...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Airbnb or Hotel?
Advances in information technology have hugely influenced the tourism industry. Many tourists can generate and share their travel tips through social media, and people consult online reviews before making travel arrangements...
Data Mining Computer Science and Information Technology Data Analysis and Statistics Business and Management Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
Airbnb or Hotel?
Advances in information technology have hugely influenced the tourism industry. Many tourists can generate and share their travel tips through social media, and people consult online reviews before making travel arrangements...
Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management
Published by: IGI Global
Decomposition and Decoupling of Regional Carbon Emissions
This paper applies the logarithmic mean divisia index to explore the decomposition and decoupling of sectoral carbon emissions across four provinces in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). The results show that (1) the YRD experienced...
Published by: IGI Global
The Rise of China
Limingcui (Emma) Huang
Oct 07, 2014
The China threat theory has been prevalent in recent years. Focusing on each of the four East Asian states, this article examines why China is perceived as a threat. This article discusses the origin of China’s rapid economic...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Integration of Bricolage and Institutional Entrepreneurship for Internet Finance
This article describes how current research on the institutional entrepreneurship process tends to ‘design principles.' There is lack of research on mechanism and strategy of the institutional bricolage, especially for Internet...
Published by: IGI Global
Challenges Encountered During Synchronous Online Collaborative Writing via Google Docs
Mufeeda Irshad
Nov 01, 2022
This study investigated (1) the challenges encountered by a heterogeneous group of first year undergraduates during a synchronous on-line collaborative writing activity conducted through Google Classroom using Google Docs and...
Published by: IGI Global
Automatic Generation of ROP Through Static Instructions Assignment and Dynamic Memory Analysis
W⊕X is a protection mechanism against control-flow hijacking attacks. Return-oriented programming (ROP) can perform a specific function by searching for appropriate assembly instruction fragments (gadgets) in a code segment and...
Published by: IGI Global
Introduction
We are grateful for the opportunity to work on Mapping Politics, the peer-reviewed political science journal of Memorial University. This volume has excellent scholarship that will be exposed to a wider audience than ever.This...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Semantic Network Model for Sign Language Comprehension
In this study, the authors propose a computational cognitive model for sign language (SL) perception and comprehension with detailed algorithmic descriptions based on cognitive functionalities in human language processing. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Hospital Employee Performance Evaluation Based on Knowledge Map
With the deepening of theoretical research and social practice, hospital employee performance management has developed into a mature knowledge system. Therefore, systematic review of the research results in this field is...
Published by: IGI Global
The Impact of Digital Twins on Local Industry Symbiosis Networks in Light of the Uncertainty Caused by the Public Crisis
Digital twins provide a solution for information-sharing between enterprises, thereby alleviating uncertainties in the supply chain. In light of the public crisis caused by COVID-19, the authors suggest a signal game model for a...
Published by: IGI Global
Study on Water-Atmosphere Interface Distribution and Concentration Fluctuation Intensities of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Great Lake
In this study, the water-atmosphere interfaces distribution and concentration fluctuation intensities of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in Great Lake were analyzed. Based on the selected significant quantum descriptors...
An Exploration Study on the Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Online Q&A Communities
This work aims to document a two-sided impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on online question and answer communities. It implements empirical analyses on subsidiary communities affiliating to the Stack Exchange network. Using a...
Published by: IGI Global
Learning Trajectory Patterns via Canonical Correlation Analysis
A substantial body of research has been devoted to the analysis of motion trajectories. Usually, a motion trajectory consists of a set of coordinates, which is called a raw trajectory. In this paper, the authors first use...
Published by: IGI Global
Improved Model Based on GoogLeNet and Residual Neural Network ResNet
Xuehua Huang
Jan 01, 2022
To improve the accuracy of image classification, a kind of improved model is proposed. The shortcut is added to GoogLeNet inception v1 and several other ways of shortcut are given, and they are GRSN1_2, GRSN1_3, GRSN1_4. Among...
Published by: IGI Global
Water Resources Security Evaluation Based on Matter Element Model in the Yellow River Basin
Water resource is a major limitation of human survival and development. Water security assessment is an important task in the environmental protection and control of water. The solution to assess the grade of water security in...
An Agent-based Simulation-optimization Coupling Approach for Device Allocation and Operation Control in Response to Offshore Oil Spills
The efficiency of offshore oil spill response not only relies on an efficaciously global decision/planning in devices combination and allocation, but also depends on the timely control for response devices (e.g., skimmers and...
A Study on Pollution in Livestock and Poultry Breeding in Shiyan City
With the investigation and research of agricultural ecology situation, the pollution characteristics of livestock manure were indicated by the statistical analysis of data as well as the effect of livestock and poultry breeding...
Do We Trust the Internet?
The threat profile of spyware is increasing rapidly when we consider the pervasiveness of computing in everyday life. The surreptitious nature of spyware can lead to information mining, data theft and exploitation of stolen...
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
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