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Factors Affecting Organizational Effectiveness
This study aims to propose a conceptual framework of organizational effectiveness for Brunei's public sector. This study proposed knowledge sharing as a potential mediator for the relationship between organizational factors...
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
“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
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
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
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
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
The Influence of ICT on the Control of Corruption
Corruption might occur in many places within the government. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be used to create a more open and transparent government enabling the Control of Corruption (CoC). The research...
Published by: IGI Global
Relocating Mad_Trans Re_presentations Within an Intersectional Framework
Eliah Hannes Lüthi
Dec 29, 2016
Stigmatizing images around Mad_trans positions are a part of everyday re_presentations; they can be found in numerous discourses, including those around medicine, the news media, fictional narratives, and even activism. When...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Towards a Smart Healthcare System
With the rapid development in smart medical devices, Internet of things has a large applicability in healthcare sector. The current system is based on a centralized communication with cloud servers. However, this architecture...
Published by: IGI Global
Review of Music in Conflict
Louis Brehony
Nov 12, 2021
The intensification of both Zionist repression and grassroots resistance across historic Palestine in May 2021 starkly contrasted Israel’s indiscriminate colonial terror with a revolutionary surge of young people embracing their...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Phenomenon of the Voice
Robert E. Dunn
Nov 19, 2013
Let me begin with an anecdote. A dear friend, who is a fine instrumentalist, recently recounted to me the following experience. He was working with some instrumentalists and some singers. At one point in the rehearsal, he said...
Published by: Faculty of Education
"Queerly Beloved, We are Gathered here Today….”
Karalena McLean
Oct 07, 2014
Given the history of the region, the extension of rights to sexual minorities in Latin America may be somewhat unexpected. That being said, the “domino effect” of both negative and positive rights to the LGBT community has been...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Missing Dimension
George Tibbetts
Nov 19, 2013
A story that has become part of musical folklore telIs of the rehearsal of a Beethoven piano concerto by the pianist Artur Schnabel and the conductor Qtto von Klemperer. As Klemperer was conducting the orchestra, he noticed...
Published by: Faculty of Education
The Ocean Ranger Disaster
JoAnne Dodd
Apr 09, 2013
In November 1980 the Ocean Ranger was the world's largest semi-submersible oil rig of its time and it was moved to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to commence the drilling of an exploration well in the Hibernia oil field. On...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Novel Multi-Objective Nonlinear Discrete Binary Gaining-Sharing Knowledge-Based Optimization Algorithm
GSK algorithm is based on the concept of how humans acquire and share knowledge through their lifespan. Discrete Binary version of GSK named novel binary Gaining Sharing knowledge-based optimization algorithm (DBGSK) depends on...
Published by: IGI Global
Uvvatuq Naluallangniaqtugut (I Humbly Hope We Run Into Game)
Uvvatuq naluallangniaqtugut (I humbly hope we run into game) is a phrase an Iñupiaq person would say before going out hunting in the Selawik dialect. We believe all things have a spirit, including animals. If a hunter announces...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Indigenization in Universities and Its Role in Continuing Settler-Colonialism
Following the release of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC): Calls to Action report, many Canadian universities raced to Indigenize their institutions. While the TRC report implicates post-secondary...
Education; Indigenous Studies; Indigenization, decolonization, Truth and Reconciliation in Universities
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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