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They patronize herbal medicine, coincidence or planned behaviour
Aim: This study assessed, if use of herbal medicine (HM) among hypertensive patients is coincidence or planned. Design: Cross‐sectional survey. Methods: The study used a cross‐sectional survey for collection of data from four...
Institutional Ownership Board Characteristics and Firm Performance
This research study attempts to investigate the moderating role of financial institutions with corporate governance and firm performance variables in the light of a purposely developed contingent theoretical framework. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Attributes Ensuring Positive Consumer Evaluation in Brand Extension of Pakistan
Malik Shabbir
Oct 01, 2020
Brand extension is an important cost-effective marketing method to offer new products. However, ordinary Least Square regression with control variables has been applied for estimation of variable coefficients. In the study...
Published by: IGI Global
Stock Market Responses to the COVID-19 Health Crisis
The outbreak of the novel COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a major black swan event which has caused shock waves and severely hurt the sentiments of market participants. The pandemic has raised uncertainties and risks all over the...
Published by: IGI Global
Artificial Bee Colony Optimized Deep Neural Network Model for Handling Imbalanced Stroke Data
The healthcare domain gets wide attention among the research community due to incremental data growth, advanced diagnostic tools, medical imaging processes, and many more. Enormous healthcare data is generated through diagnostic...
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Antecedents of Wallet App Adoption
Emerging economies like India are witnessing rapid technological changes. To penetrate in the emerging markets and ensure smooth adoption of mobile wallets it is important to study the constructs that trigger mobile adoption....
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Forecasting Price of Amazon Spot Instances Using Machine Learning
An auction-based cloud model is followed in the spot pricing mechanism, where the spot instances charge changes with time. The user is bound to pay for the time that is initially initiated. If the user terminates before the...
Published by: IGI Global
CODVerif
CODVerif is an approach that aims to verify the data being inserted in a data store continuously. CODVerif leverages the combination of ontology and workflow technologies in order to define workflows that are specific to the...
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Robust RDH Technique Using Sorting and IPVO-Based Pairwise PEE for Secure Communication
Nowadays, Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) is used extensively in information sensitive communication domains to protect the integrity of hidden data and the cover medium. However, most of the recently proposed RDH methods lack...
Published by: IGI Global
Sup_Ont
A domain-independent conceptual model that aims to be highly reusable across specific domain applications is provided by upper-level ontologies which usually describe abstract concepts. In this paper, the authors proposed...
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A Conceptual Framework for Intention to Use Travel Apps
This exploratory study aims to investigate the intention to use mobile travel applications in Jordan. 7 predictors in this study have been carefully selected from previous studies conducted to date in the tourism context, and...
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Nexus and Perception of Customers Toward Conventional Banking Systems
This study analyses the perception of customer regarding conventional and Islamic banking system. This research has found the opinions of customers of conventional banks with comparison to Islamic banks, and standalone Islamic...
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Knowledge-Infused Text Classification for the Biomedical Domain
Extracting knowledge from unstructured text and then classifying it is gaining importance after the data explosion on the web. The traditional text classification approaches are becoming ubiquitous, but the hybrid of semantic...
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Skepticism Toward Online Advertising
Despite the enormous spending on digital advertising, consumers are skeptical toward online advertising (STA). We integrated advertising value and stimulus-organism- response (SOR) frameworks to develop a model of STA's causes...
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Off-Farm Income Effect on Farmer Response to Climate Change in the Northern Region of Ghana
This study assessed the effect of off-farm income on maize farmers' responses to climate change in the Tolon district of Northern Region of Ghana. Using multi-stage sampling technique and semi-structured questionnaires, 150...
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Impact of Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Improving Behavioral Intention to Use E-Learning
This comprehensive study reviews the technological impact during the COVID-19 pandemic and elucidates technology usage to technology-enhanced learning which assisted in enhancing the behavioral intention to use technologies...
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Defect Dynamics in Graphene
The experimental and theoretical study of graphene, two-dimensional (2D) graphite, is an extremely rapidly growing field of today's condensed matter research. Different types of disorder in graphene modify the Dirac equation...
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Aligning and Assessing Teaching Approaches With SOLO Taxonomy in a Computer Programming Course
A teaching approach plays an important role in teaching and learning process of an introductory programming (IP) course. The teaching approach should focus on different programming skills required by novice programmers. In this...
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Impact of High Performance Work Systems on Organizational Performance
Today's business organizations require increased effectiveness and competitive advantage that can be achieved through High Performance Work Systems (HPWS). This study is proved the same effect in commercial banking sector of...
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Unlocking the Relationship Between Talent Management Practices and Performance Sustainability in the Sports Industry
The present study investigated the effect of talent management practices on performance sustainability in the sports industry. The study used the deductive reasoning approach to predict new cricketer performance sustainability....
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Integration of Multi-Class Service Paradigm With Generic Trust Mechanism for Innovation, Customization and Adaptability in MANETs
Trust-based mechanisms are widely used in wireless networks of different kinds for providing security against attack. Trust mechanism provides security from various attacks using both detective and preventive manner. This paper...
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Reversible Data Hiding with Multiple Data for Multiple Users in an Encrypted Image
This article presents a new method which embeds multiple data from multiple users in an encrypted image. Here, the data from several users is embedded into an encrypted image. Initially, the image is encrypted by the owner...
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Exploring the Impact of E-Marketing on Consumers' Online Cognitive and Affective Tendencies in Developing Nations
Abdul Waheed, Nargis Afzal, Muhammad Shahzad, Farrah Arif, Muhammmad Usman, Yasir Rashid
Jan 01, 2022
Consumers have become smarter therefore smart techniques are required to grab their paramount interest toward a particular product or service. Since advanced information communications technologies (ICTs) have radically changed...
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Sustainable Smart Homes and Community Happiness in the Malaysian Context
Suhaiza Zailani, Hui Au Yong, Zam Mohamad, Hajra Malik, Charles Ramendran S. P. R., Chee Yip, Chee Fong, Mobashar Rehman
Jan 01, 2022
Sustainable smart houses are one of the methods through which all these factors can be touched upon because such houses provide social well-being and cause less damage to the environment. Therefore, this study analysed the...
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.
Nick Shrine, Abril G Izquierdo, Jing Chen, Richard Packer, Robert J Hall, Anna L Guyatt, Chiara Batini, Rebecca J Thompson, Chandan Pavuluri, Vidhi Malik, Brian D Hobbs, Matthew Moll, Wonji Kim, Ruth Tal-Singer, Per Bakke, Katherine A Fawcett, Catherine John, Kayesha Coley, Noemi Nicole Piga, Alfred Pozarickij, Kuang Lin, Iona Y Millwood, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, Sara R A Wijnant, Lies Lahousse, Guy Brusselle, Andre G Uitterlinden, Ani Manichaikul, Elizabeth C Oelsner, Stephen S Rich, R Graham Barr, Shona M Kerr, Veronique Vitart, Michael R Brown, Matthias Wielscher, Medea Imboden, Ayoung Jeong, Traci M Bartz, Sina A Gharib, Claudia Flexeder, Stefan Karrasch, Christian Gieger, Annette Peters, Beate Stubbe, Xiaowei Hu, Victor E Ortega, Deborah A Meyers, Eugene R Bleecker, Stacey B Gabriel, Namrata Gupta, Albert Vernon Smith, Jian'an Luan, Jing-Hua Zhao, Ailin F Hansen, Arnulf Langhammer, Cristen Willer, Laxmi Bhatta, David Porteous, Blair H Smith, Archie Campbell, Tamar Sofer, Jiwon Lee, Martha L Daviglus, Bing Yu, Elise Lim, Hanfei Xu, George T O'Connor, Gaurav Thareja, Omar M E Albagha, Karsten Suhre, Raquel Granell, Tariq O Faquih, Pieter S Hiemstra, Annelies M Slats, Benjamin H Mullin, Jennie Hui, Alan James, John Beilby, Karina Patasova, Pirro Hysi, Jukka T Koskela, Annah B Wyss, Jianping Jin, Sinjini Sikdar, Mikyeong Lee, Sebastian May-Wilson, Nicola Pirastu, Katherine A Kentistou, Peter K Joshi, Paul R H J Timmers, Alexander T Williams, Robert C Free, Xueyang Wang, John L Morrison, Frank D Gilliland, Zhanghua Chen, Carol A Wang, Rachel E Foong, Sarah E Harris, Adele Taylor, Paul Redmond, James P Cook, Anubha Mahajan, Lars Lind, Teemu Palviainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli T Raitakari, Jaakko Kaprio, Taina Rantanen, Kirsi H Pietiläinen, Simon R Cox, Craig E Pennell, Graham L Hall, W James Gauderman, Chris Brightling, James F Wilson, Tuula Vasankari, Tarja Laitinen, Veikko Salomaa, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Nicholas J Timpson, Eleftheria Zeggini, Josée Dupuis, Caroline Hayward, Ben Brumpton, Claudia Langenberg, Stefan Weiss, Georg Homuth, Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Alanna C Morrison, Ozren Polasek, Igor Rudan, Joo-Hyeon Lee, Ian Sayers, Emma L Rawlins, Frank Dudbridge, Edwin K Silverman, David P Strachan, Robin G Walters, Andrew P Morris, Stephanie J London, Michael H Cho, Louise V Wain, Ian P Hall, Martin D Tobin
Apr 13, 2023
Lung Humans Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Genetic Predisposition to Disease Smoking Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Genome-Wide Association Study
Published by: Nature genetics