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Mathematical Models of Desire, Need, Attention, and Will Effort
Alexander Ovsich
Jan 25, 2017
According to Spinoza, “Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause”. Author proposes that desire is nothing else but a change of pleasure accompanied by the idea of its cause, that terms...
Biologically-Inspired Computing Computer Science and Information Technology Artificial Intelligence Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Laying the First Transatlantic Cable
Matthew Alexander
Apr 09, 2013
In the early 1800s the electrical telegraph was developed to transmit written messages through a wire. By 1850 there was a submarine telegraph cable laid beneath the English Channel followed by a cable across the Cabot Strait in...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Strong Robustness Watermarking Algorithm Based on Lifting Wavelet Transform and Hessenberg Decomposition
Watermark imperceptibility and robustness in the present watermarking algorithm based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) could be weakened due to data truncation. To solve this problem, a strong robustness watermarking...
Published by: IGI Global
Prevention and Resolution of Labor Disputes
The study covers preventive dispute resolution methods in industrial relations, as well as empirical testing of hypotheses regarding labor disputes in Russia. The hypothesis regarding the impact of the number of laid-off...
Published by: IGI Global
Buried graphene heterostructures for electrostatic doping of low-dimensional materials.
Alexander Gumprich, Julian Liedtke, Sarah Beck, Irina Chirca, Teja Potočnik, Jack Alexander-Webber, Stephan Hofmann, Stefan Tappertzhofen
Apr 13, 2023
The fabrication and characterization of steep slope transistor devices based on low-dimensional materials requires precise electrostatic doping profiles with steep spatial gradients in order to maintain maximum control over the...
Inter-Agency Delivery System
This paper examines the effect of inter-agency delivery systems on the agility of public sector organizations and ease of doing business. The empirical focus is the Nigerian public sector, in relation to the implications of...
Published by: IGI Global
Determinants of Consumption Behaviors of Korean Pop Culture in Taiwan
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of associations between intrinsic (e.g., functional), extrinsic (e.g., social) and cultural consumption values, and consumption behavior of Korean pop cultural contents (KPCC) in...
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of Business and Engineering Decisions in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Mark Alexander Reynolds
Apr 09, 2013
On April 20th, 2010, the semi-submersible oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members and allowing crude oil to spill continuously from the seabed. Despite numerous attempts to cap the leak...
Civil Engineering ENGI 8751, CASE STUDY, CIVIL, DEEPWATER HORIZON, OIL SPILL, ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, BUSINESS ETHICS, OIL RIG
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dynamic Impact of Government Expenditure and Debt Policy Instruments on Agricultural Growth in Nigeria
This research examined the impact of government expenditure and debt policy instruments on agricultural growth in Nigeria for the period 1980-2018. Findings revealed that, for every billion rise in aggregate government...
Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology Global Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
Powerpoint Presentation Evaluation Based on Aggregation of Quality Criteria
Today, there is no consensus about proper timing and conditions for integration of PowerPoint presentations into the educational process. But the model-based evaluation can make a decision-making process easier when it comes to...
Published by: IGI Global
Transformational Leadership and Organizational Change Examining the Mediational Approach of Knowledge Sharing
This study examines the transformational leadership behavior for organizational change by creating the environment of sharing knowledge in organizational and individual level of the organization for a sample of 300 employees and...
Published by: IGI Global
Monitoring Practitioner's Skills in Pure-Tone Audiometry
So far, there exists no standard, to evaluate a practitioner's skills in pure-tone audiometry. To narrow the gap, this article presents an artificial patient (AP) emulating various types of hearing impairment. In contrast to...
Published by: IGI Global
The Register Variation in Translated Epidemic Prevention Manuals as Emergency Language Services
Using Biber's MD model, this paper investigates the register variation in crisis translation and discovers that learned exposition is the text type that comes closest to crisis translation. Crisis translation has “explicit” and...
Published by: IGI Global
Translation of Activities in a Global Virtual Teams Software Development
Olayele Adelakun
Oct 01, 2021
. This study explores Global Virtual Software Teams’ development practices and try to demystify some of the misconceptions about global software development practices based on findings from the global virtual software teams’...
Published by: IGI Global
Adaptive Active Contour Model for Brain Tumor Segmentation
For accurately diagnosing the severity of brain tumors in MRI images, Glioma segmentation is a significant step. The Glioma segmentation is due to noise and weak edges of organs in medical images. The geodesic active contour...
Published by: IGI Global
Robust Security With Strong Authentication in Mobile Cloud Computing Based on Trefoil Congruity Framework
In the mobile cloud computing era, the sharing of secured large-scale data which have major challenges. From an existing quantum based security mechanism randomly chosen the photon detector which creates small length of qubits...
Published by: IGI Global
Using Digital Technologies to Improve the Efficiency of Discussion Environments for Economics Students During COVID-19
The article is devoted to studying the impact of digital technologies on providing an efficient educational discussion environment against the background of isolation and social distancing caused by COVID-19 preventive measures....
Published by: IGI Global
Developing Personal Traits by using Divine Tool – Bhagwad Gita
Every day from morning to evening we all are in the battlefield. We are facing number of problems and challenges in day to day life. In this research paper, some important teachings of Bhagwad-Geeta are highlighted. Such as;...
Published by: Singh Publication
Playing in the Same Sandbox
This chapter highlights the long-standing collaboration between a library-based research data services team and an office of research-based research technology and computing team. Understanding that both teams wanted to engage...
Library Science Library and Information Science Library Administration Education Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Corporate Recognition Award and Reputation Dimensions on Corporate Reputation Consequences
The present study aims to investigate the influence of corporate recognition award and corporate reputation dimensions on corporate reputation consequences which are trust, satisfaction, loyalty, and positive word-of-mouth...
Published by: IGI Global
Blockchain Adoption for Provenance and Traceability in the Retail Food Supply Chain
Blockchain has evolved as one of the disruptive technologies in the landscape of business. The study aims to investigate drivers of consumer adoption of blockchain for product origin and track to trace history before making a...
Published by: IGI Global
The Spillover Effect of Agricultural Product Market Price Fluctuation Based on Fourier Analysis
The stability of the original spillover effect model of agricultural product market price volatility is poor, resulting in the low degree of fitting between the results and the actual situation. In order to further clarify the...
Published by: IGI Global
Quantify the Behaviour Intention of Individuals to Control SC Performance by Exploring Cloud Storage Services
The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) is explored as a theoretical background to build extended UTAUT2 model with relevant variables for examining the cloud storage services technology acceptance at...
Published by: IGI Global
Rethinking Postwar Liberalism
Peter Sloman
Apr 13, 2023
The nineteenth and early twentieth century Liberal Party has been well served by British political historians. By contrast, research on the post‐1945 Liberal Party and Liberal Democrats has become a specialised field, with...
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