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Information Entropy Augmented High Density Crowd Counting Network
The research proposes an innovated structure of the density map-based crowd counting network augmented by information entropy. The network comprises of a front-end network to extract features and a back-end network to generate...
Published by: IGI Global
Modeling the Role of Government, Firm, and Civil Society for Environmental Sustainability
The objective of this article is to design a game theory-based model to outline the role of the government, firm and civil society for environmental sustainability. The study used the dynamic game theory of complete information....
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Movement from Object Position in Chinese
Zhong-ying Lu
Sep 05, 2013
There is a subject-object asymmetry in Chinese, such that the extraction of a possessor NP from a possessive NP is quite free from subject position but restricted from object position. A possessive tJP consists of a possessor NP...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Exploring Performance Management in China's Family SMEs Based on Structural Equation Modelling and Back-Propagation Neural Network
Because of the growing competition and challenges within the global business environment, understanding performance management has become essential to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as they have traditionally...
Published by: IGI Global
Woher kommt die Hyle? Eine Analyse zur Landgrebeschen Antwort
Ying-Chien Yang
Apr 22, 2021
In der vorliegenden Arbeit befasse ich mich mit der Problematik derEmpfindung, bzw. der Hyle, in Husserls Phänomenologie und derentsprechenden Auslegung von Ludwig Landgrebe. Husserl verwendet denBegriff der Empfindung, bzw. der...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Self-Service Technology (SST) in the Public Sector
In the Netherlands, housing corporations are increasingly adopting self-service technologies (SSTs) to support affairs their tenants need to arrange. The purpose of the study is to examine the customers' motivations of using...
Published by: IGI Global
A Model of Semantic-Based Image Retrieval Using C-Tree and Neighbor Graph
The problems of image mining and semantic image retrieval play an important role in many areas of life. In this paper, a semantic-based image retrieval system is proposed that relies on the combination of C-Tree, which was built...
Published by: IGI Global
Canals, Consent and Coercion
Francis James Dawson
Sep 11, 2018
Ever since Chinese telecommunications magnate, Wang Jing announced in 2013 that construction would be going ahead for an interoceanic canal in Nicaragua, the proposed megaproject has garnered considerable attention and...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Filtering Infrequent Behavior in Business Process Discovery by Using the Minimum Expectation
The aim of process discovery is to discover process models from the process execution data stored in event logs. In the era of “Big Data,” one of the key challenges is to analyze the large amounts of collected data in meaningful...
Published by: IGI Global
A Hybrid Learning Particle Swarm Optimization With Fuzzy Logic for Sentiment Classification Problems
Methods based on deep learning have great utility in the current field of sentiment classification. To better optimize the setting of hyper-parameters in deep learning, a hybrid learning particle swarm optimization with fuzzy...
Published by: IGI Global
Designing Controlled Chinese Rules for MT Pre-Editing of Product Description Text
The study aims to investigate how pre-editing based on controlled Chinese rules can be an effective approach to improving Chinese-to-English machine translation (MT) output. Based on the analysis of comparable texts, and by...
Published by: IGI Global
Using a Complex Technology in a Language Course
Airong Wang
Dec 06, 2019
In this chapter, how the complex technology of Second Life affects participation in an English course is investigated. With the aim of exploring gender issues, the special affordance of Second Life, i.e. voice-morphing together...
Computer-Assisted Language Learning Education Educational Technologies Computer Science and Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
Big Data Security Management Countermeasures in the Prevention and Control of Computer Network Crime
Hongning Wang
Sep 01, 2021
This paper aims to study the Countermeasures of big data security management in the prevention and control of computer network crime in the absence of relevant legislation and judicial practice. Starting from the concepts and...
Published by: IGI Global
Understanding the Health Information Sharing Behavior of Social Media Users
Studies have focused on elucidating the sharing behavior of media users. However, few studies have specifically investigated users' health information sharing behavior in the social media context, especially WeChat. This study...
Published by: IGI Global
View on the Buildup of New Service Capability of National Library of China From the Point of Development Trend of Reference Work
Lei Wang
Jan 01, 2021
With the change of information environment, the emergence of new technology, services, and new media, reference librarians and users have more choices in information acquisition methods, tools, and means. The reference...
Published by: IGI Global
Innovative Practice and Development Thinking of Space Re-design in the Liaoning Provincial Library
The Liaoning Provincial Library is one of the largest and most well-functional libraries. It has the largest building area and provides abundant services to the public. The Liaoning Provincial Library mainly provides readers...
Published by: IGI Global
Exploring the Impact of Country-of-Origin Image and Purchase Intention in Cross-Border E-Commerce
Product country-of-origin (COO) is now playing a central role in consumers’ purchase behavior. Previous studies have investigated several factors that impact COO. However, little attention has been paid to the impact of COO on...
Published by: IGI Global
Strategic Information Technology Compensation
Chingning Wang
Oct 01, 2019
The 2008 financial crisis has made many high-tech firms vulnerable. Some non-American firms (e.g. in Taiwan) have even granted their IT professionals a “no-pay break” to reduce firms' financial uncertainty. The crisis leads to a...
Published by: IGI Global
The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Analysis of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare
Chaojie Wang
Jan 01, 2019
Improving the performance and reducing the cost of healthcare have been a great concern and a huge challenge for healthcare organizations and governments at every level in the US. Measures taken have included laws, regulations...
Published by: IGI Global
Logistic Analytics Management in the Service Supply Chain Market Using Swarm Intelligence Modelling
Congcong Wang
Oct 01, 2022
The industry sustainability in today's globalization relies on cost-effective supply chain management of diverse markets and logistics. Supply chain risks typically limit profits over the overall expense of the supply chain. In...
Published by: IGI Global
Supplier Evaluation and Selection System of Embedded E-Commerce Platform Based on Big Data
For e-commerce companies, it is easier to obtain a large amount of aggregated data about user behavior with the help of embedded network platforms, which contains valuable information that helps to form effective...
Published by: IGI Global
The Restorative Effects of Virtual Reality Forests on Elderly Individuals During the COVID-19 Lockdown
This study focuses on the restorative effects of immersive virtual reality (VR) forest experiences on elderly people during the COVID-19 lockdown. A field experiment with 63 elderly participants was conducted in an elderly care...
Published by: IGI Global
An Overview of Recent Development in Privacy Regulations and Future Research Opportunities
This chapter provides an overview of several recently proposed or passed privacy-related regulations, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Illinois Video Interview Act...
Information Security & Privacy Security and Forensics Cyber and Network Security Computer Science and Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
AI-Assisted Dynamic Modelling for Data Management in a Distributed System
There are many interdependent computers available in distributed networks. In such schemes, overall ownership costs comprise facilities, such as computers, controls, etc.; buying hardware; and running expenses such as wages...
Published by: IGI Global
A Novel Particle Swarm Optimization With Genetic Operator and Its Application to TSP
To solve some problems of particle swarm optimization, such as the premature convergence and falling into a sub-optimal solution easily, we introduce the probability initialization strategy and genetic operator into the...
Published by: IGI Global
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