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Do Materialistic Consumers Buy More During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
This study investigates the mediated moderating relationship of self-concept clarity, materialism, and social consumption motivation in the context of Covid-19 pandemic based on the terror management theory. The findings suggest...
Published by: IGI Global
An Improved and Adaptive Approach in ANFIS to Predict Knee Diseases
Artificial intelligence is emerging as a persuasive tool in the field of medical science. This research work also primarily focuses on the development of a tool to automate the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases of the knee...
Published by: IGI Global
Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using an Entropy-Based Optimization Algorithm
This article presents an algorithm for the segmentation of retinal blood vessels for the detection of diabetic retinopathy eye diseases. This disease occurs in patients with untreated diabetes for a long time. Since this disease...
Published by: IGI Global
Automated Knowledge Extraction of Liver Cysts From CT Images Using Modified Whale Optimization and Fuzzy C Means Clustering Algorithm
In this study, the integrated modified whale optimization and modified fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm using morphological operations are developed and implemented for appropriate knowledge extraction of a cyst from computer...
Published by: IGI Global
Colonial Encounters
Harjeet Kaur Badwall
Jan 07, 2015
This article examines the ways in which racialized social workers negotiate the values and practices of a social work profession that is constituted through scripts of whiteness. In particular, I examine how social work imagines...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Sustainable Model for Effective Employee Relations in Contemporary Organizations
Employee relation has emerged as a major point of concern for human resource practitioners. This paper investigated all the possible variables affecting employee relations in the organization through an extensive literature...
Published by: IGI Global
A Study on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sectors of the Indian Economy
COVID-19 emerged in China in December. The World Health Organization declares this virus as Global Disaster in March. The coronavirus has affected the social, economic, political dimensions of the nations globally. In this...
Published by: IGI Global
Racialized Discourses
Harjeet Kaur Badwall
Feb 02, 2016
This paper is concerned with the ethics of knowledge production when conducting research on racial injustice. The discussion draws upon my doctoral research, in which I interviewed 23 racialized social workers in Toronto...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Role of Arts-Based Research in Creating Safe Spaces for Newcomer Refugees
Haley Rebecca Mary Toll
Dec 20, 2018
This article discusses the role of arts-based research in generating a supportive cross-cultural way for newcomer refugees to express themselves within an emerging aesthetic intersubjective paradigm of arts-based research and...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Voice Engagement Leading to Business Intelligence
There are multiple studies establishing the importance of Business Intelligence (BI), in the Big Data Analytics context. Voice is yet to be seen as a contributing channel. Voice enabled assistants are at the forefront of...
Published by: IGI Global
Cultivating a Racialized Practitioner Ethic
In this article, we ask critical questions and reflect upon ethics and praxis for racialized practitioners working alongside Indigenous communities in the human services field. Acknowledging the lack of scholarship across the...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Fuzzy Rule Based Expert System for Early Diagnosis of Osgood Schlatter Disease of Knee Joint
The proposed research work is for the early diagnosis of the inflammatory disease named Osgood-Schlatter disease of the knee joint. As the system deals with fuzzy values, a MATLAB (R2013a) fuzzy logic controller is used for the...
Published by: IGI Global
BERT-BU12 Hate Speech Detection Using Bidirectional Encoder-Decoder
In the recent times transfer learning models have known to exhibited good results in the area of text classification for question-answering, summarization, next word prediction but these learning models have not been extensively...
Published by: IGI Global
Diversity Climate Perceptions and Turnover Intentions
The present research aims to examine the sequential mediating effect of inclusion and job satisfaction in the relationship between diversity climate and employee turnover intentions. Data has been collected from 302 full-time...
Published by: IGI Global
Detection Mechanism Using Transductive Learning and Support Vectors for Software-Defined Networks
SDN has come up as a promising technology for a future network as a logically centralized controlled framework along with its physically distributed architecture isolating the control plane from sending data moving the entire...
Published by: IGI Global
Intellectual Structure and Publication Pattern in Journal of Global Information Management
The Journal of Global Information Management has been publishing high-quality research related to information systems since 1993. The current study provides a retrospective of its magnificent journey. The study recognizes...
Published by: IGI Global
A Novel Method for Despeckling of Ultrasound Images Using Cellular Automata-Based Despeckling Filter
Ultrasound images have an inherent property termed as speckle noise that is the outcome of interference between incident and reflected ultrasound waves which reduce image resolution and contrast and could lead to improper...
Published by: IGI Global
COVID-19 Pandemic
Our study aims to analyze the change in coverage of health issues awareness, printed on the front page of Indian E-Papers (The Hindustan Times and The Times of India) for the pre-and- peri coronavirus period. The collected news...
Published by: IGI Global
An In Silico QSAR Model Study Using Electrophilicity as a Possible Descriptor Against T. Brucei
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a vector-borne sleeping sickness parasitic disease spread through the bite of infected tsetse flies (Glossina genus), which is highly populated in rural Africa. The present study...
Published by: IGI Global
Towards Reviewing an Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on the Integrative World Economy
On 31 December 2019, WHO received inputs of pneumonia cases in Wuhan city of China, but the cause of infection could not be known initially. However, after some time, the medical researchers of China disclosed a novel...
Published by: IGI Global
Hurricane Damage Detection From Satellite Imagery Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Hurricanes are one of the most disastrous natural phenomena occurring on Earth that cause loss of human lives and immense damage to property as well. For assessment of this damage, windshield survey is commonly used, which is an...
Published by: IGI Global
An Antecedent Study of Mobile Social Game Addiction vs. Virtual Goods Purchase
This study aims to investigate how cognitive antecedents impact on social game addiction and virtual properties purchase among Generation Y players in Malaysia. Using a quantitative method with 341 Generation Y gamers and...
Published by: IGI Global