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La Grammaire au Service de la Galanterie? Analyse de Les « Vous » et les « Tu » de Voltaire
In his epistle Les "Vous" et les "Tu", Voltaire calls his sweetheart "tu" and"valls" alternately. He could use the familiar address when she was youngand unambitious, but now that she has become a rich and distant lady...
Two Variations of Peer Intermediaries for Key Establishment in Sensor Networks
Recently, the issue pertinent to sensor network security is a popular topic. Especially, due to the restriction of energy supplied by battery power of the sensors, symmetric cryptography is one of the suitable choices for the...
Published by: IGI Global
CNC Milling of Medical-Grade PMMA
This study evaluates CNC milling parameters (spindle speed, depth of cut, and feed rate) on medical-grade PMMA. A single objective analysis conducted showed that the optimal material removal rate (MRR) occurs at a spindle speed...
Published by: IGI Global
The Direction of Causality Between Supply Chain Excellence and Firm Performance
Min Shi
Apr 01, 2019
A widely-accepted measure of supply chain excellence is the Supply Chain Top 25 List published annually by Gartner Research. It evaluates firms from five quality dimensions: return on assets, inventory turns, revenue growth...
Published by: IGI Global
The Effects of Techno-Stress in the Role Stress Context Applied on the Proximity Manager Performance
Min Feng
Jan 01, 2021
The ubiquitous use of ICT can create “techno-stress.” The purpose of the research is to examine the case of the specificity of the techno-stress phenomenon of local managers. The authors develop their research questions on the...
Published by: IGI Global
Against the Notion of Unidirectionality in Lexeme Genesis
Carl Rubino
Sep 05, 2013
The morphological continuum of grammaticization has been considered to be unidirectional, in which a lexical item undergoing the grammaticization process would become cognitively and phonologically bound to the root morpheme for...
A Critical Study on Translation of the Analects
Fan Min
Jan 01, 2021
“Ideology” shapes our discourse practices and is closely related to the translation activities. This paper attempts to explore how ideological factors influence the cultural transmission of Confucianism through a comparative...
Published by: IGI Global
An Action Research on a French Law Firm
This study qualitatively analyzes interactional coping strategies used to managed technostress in the post-adoption stage of information technology implementation at a French legal firm. The nine strategies are participatory...
Published by: IGI Global
Strategies to Respond to Technology Enhancement
This study identifies coping strategies to examine the behaviors adopted by team managers in addressing technostress. It evaluates the choice of coping strategies to increase performance. A study involving 3 companies and 45...
Published by: IGI Global
Solving the Trapezoidal Fuzzy Transportation Problems via New Heuristic
Souhail Dhouib
Oct 01, 2021
The transportation problem is a one of the principal topics in operational research where goods are initially stored at different sources and need to be livered to destination in such a way the total transportation cost is...
Published by: IGI Global
The Research of Social Network Analysis on College Students' Interactive Relations
Chang Chen, Min Chen
Apr 01, 2021
Nowadays the number of college students' suicides are increasing for the insufficient social support or poor interpersonal relations. Furthermore, not much attention has been concerned to students' interpersonal relations when...
Published by: IGI Global
Performance, Motivation, Engagement, and Interactions in MOOC-Based Learning
Zhonggen Yu, Min Wang
Jan 01, 2022
With the rapid development of information technologies, the new decade has been witnessing an advancement of massive open online courses (MOOCs)-based learning. However, MOOCs are infamous for the lower engagement and completion...
Published by: IGI Global
Data Envelopment Analysis and Analytics Software for Optimizing Building Energy Efficiency
This research was motivated by the need to identify the most effective Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model and associated data analytics software for measuring, comparing, and optimizing building energy efficiency. By...
Published by: IGI Global
Blockchain Traceability Valuation for Perishable Agricultural Products Under Demand Uncertainty
Zhuoyi Zhao, K. Min
Oct 01, 2020
Various perishable agricultural products are recalled due to harmful health risks. Blockchain has been used to reduce the amount of such products wasted and disposed. Specifically, a supply chain with a wholesaler, a retailer...
Published by: IGI Global
Platformance-Based Cross-Border Import Retail E-Commerce Service Quality Evaluation Using an Artificial Neural Network Analysis
Min Chen, Zhitan Feng
Apr 07, 2022
The transaction scale of cross-border import e-commerce has grown rapidly around the world. Platform-style cross-border e-commerce does not control the quality, source and transaction process of goods strictly and...
Published by: IGI Global
Visualizing the ICT-Assisted Flipped Pedagogical Approach in EFL Education
Zhonggen Yu, Min Wang
Jan 01, 2022
It is necessary to systematically review the literature since the information and communication technology (ICT)-assisted flipped pedagogical approach in English education has been increasingly popular. By way of visualization...
Published by: IGI Global
Meta-Analytically Exploring the Learning Outcomes Assisted With Twitter in the Pandemic Time
Zhonggen Yu, Min Wang
Jan 01, 2022
The use of social media such as Twitter has gained popularity in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study included 22 high-quality peer-reviewed journal articles for the meta-analysis. The authors reveal that there are...
Published by: IGI Global
How Does Social Identification Moderate the Repurchase Intention?
Shwu-Min Horng
Oct 01, 2020
This research studied user repurchase intentions on online group buying services. In the research model, satisfaction is hypothesized to have a positive relationship with trust that will have a positive impact on repurchase...
Published by: IGI Global
A Path Analysis of Online Group Buying
Online group buying has emerged as a new bargaining power for many shoppers and become more so as a result of increasingly growing popularity of social networking and community-based web sites. Aside from significant quantity...
Published by: IGI Global
Dynamic Provable Data Possession of Multiple Copies in Cloud Storage Based on Full-Node of AVL Tree
This article describes how to protect the security of cloud storage, a provable data possession scheme based on full-nodes of an AVL tree for multiple data copies in cloud storage. In the proposed scheme, a Henon chaotic map is...
Published by: IGI Global
Research on Financial Support Mechanism of Creative Enterprises
Based on the literature review, this paper proposed the model between the influencing factors of financial support of creative enterprises, financial support capabilities and support performance, and made corresponding...
Published by: IGI Global
Social Commerce Intention, Social Interaction, and Social Support
A higher number of socially anxious users were found as more users joined social network sites. Since social commerce has become an important issue, this study investigated the effect of social anxiety on online users’ social...
Published by: IGI Global
Decorative Art Pattern Mining and Discovery Based on Group User Intelligence
With the continuous developments of real estates and the increasing personalization of people, more and more house owners are willing to search for and discover their preferred decorative art patterns via various house...
Published by: IGI Global
Preclinical PET Imaging of Tumor Cell Death following Therapy Using Gallium-68-Labeled C2Am.
There is an unmet clinical need for imaging agents capable of detecting early evidence of tumor cell death, since the timing, extent, and distribution of cell death in tumors following treatment can give an indication of...
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Influence of Cutting Parameters on Machinability of DSS 2205 and SDSS 2507 Materials During Milling
Duplex and super duplex materials possess the properties of both Austenite and Martensitic steels. Properties like hardness and toughness are very high for duplex grades and are difficult-to-machine. In this study, machining...
Published by: IGI Global

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