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The Expansion of Approximant /r/ in Dutch
Renée Van Bezooijen
Sep 30, 2014
In present-day Standard Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands, three main categories of pronunciation variants of Irl can be distinguished, namely alveolar /r/, uvular /r/, and approximant /r/. Approximant /r/, the focus of this...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
STOP AND GO (AWAY)
TO UNDERSTAND THE LINGUISTIC CLIMATE of Newfoundland, one must look not only at the linguistic variation that exists among Newfoundland speakers, but also at what underlies and drives this variation. It is clear that social...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Effect of Agency Problem and Internal Control on Credit Risk at Commercial Banks in Vietnam
Quoc Kim
Jan 01, 2022
This study examines the effect of agency problem and internal control on credit risk under corporate governance theory at Vietnamese joint-stock commercial banks. Using the quantitative methods, including pooled Ordinary Least...
Published by: IGI Global
The Economic Impact of Standards in Belgium
While several past studies have measured the impact of standards on indicators such as output and productivity for a variety of countries, a quantitative analysis that focuses on Belgium has not been performed yet. Based on a...
IT Policy & Standardization Computer Science and Information Technology IT Policy and Standardization
Published by: IGI Global
Heuristics for Mixed Strength Sensor Location Problems
Location-detection problems are pervasive. Examples include the detection of faults in microprocessors, the identification of contaminants in ventilation systems, and the detection of illegal logging in rain forests. In each of...
Published by: IGI Global
Development of Innovative Business of Telecommunication Operator
Mobile operators globally are endeavoring to expand beyond legacy communications/media business to create new growth engine based on information and communication technology (ICT). This research studies the case of KT to see how...
Published by: IGI Global
Challenging the "old boys club" in academia
Sara Dada, Kim Robin van Daalen, Alanna Barrios-Ruiz, Kai-Ti Wu, Aidan Desjardins, Mayte Bryce-Alberti, Alejandra Castro-Varela, Parnian Khorsand, Ander Santamarta Zamorano, Laura Jung, Grace Malolos, Jiaqi Li, Dominique Vervoort, Nikita Charles Hamilton, Poorvaprabha Patil, Omnia El Omrani, Marie-Claire Wangari, Telma Sibanda, Conor Buggy, Ebele R I Mogo
Apr 17, 2023
In light of global environmental crises and the need for sustainable development, the fields of public health and environmental sciences have become increasingly interrelated. Both fields require interdisciplinary thinking and...
Published by: PLOS global public health
Mass Balance Simulation for Wetlands and Estuaries Management
The closed bay formed by a tidal power plant on the west coast of Korea has caused water quality to change due to nutrient increase and salinity alternation. The nutrients of the inner bay are often kept a balance with the aid...
Creating Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Classroom Communities in Early Childhood Language Immersion Schools
This chapter examined the development of a classroom community through a case study of a kindergarten teacher in a Spanish language immersion school. Case study data includes observational field notes, classroom artifacts...
Published by: IGI Global
Influential Indicators and Measurements of Mediating and Moderating Roles on SME Performance
Seok-Soo Kim
Jan 01, 2022
Overcoming the failure of SMEs has been an important research topic. The critical research finding is that it has verified the essential elements of performance improvement. We presented a solution to the research question, "Is...
Published by: IGI Global
The Effect of Customer Value on User Satisfaction With Dialogue Characteristics of Apple's Intelligent Agent Siri
Intelligent agent products with dialogue characteristics are rapidly becoming common household and personal gadgets. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of dialogue characteristics on user satisfaction with...
Published by: IGI Global
Does Financial Leverage Fit Firm Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quoc Kim
Jan 01, 2022
The paper aims to determine the effect of financial leverage on the performance of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the agency theory and pecking order theory, combined with the...
Published by: IGI Global
Efficient Cloudlet Allocation to Virtual Machine to Impact Cloud System Performance
Performance is an essential characteristic of any cloud computing system. It can be enhance through parallel computing, scheduling and load balancing. This work evaluates the connection between the response time (RT) and virtual...
Published by: IGI Global
Exploring Multipath TCP Schedulers in Heterogeneous Networks
Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) is a transport layer protocol, which transmits TCP segments on more than one path, in multihomed devices. It was designed with the aim of Bandwidth aggregation and redundant...
Published by: IGI Global
Viewing Alone or Together
Online sexually explicit materials (SEM) may be viewed in various viewing contexts (e.g., alone, with friends, with a partner). However, research has not yet determined whether the viewing context can have an impact upon sexual...
Published by: IGI Global
A Flipped Instructional Design as an Online Pedagogy Enabling Student Learning in an ODeL Course
Micheal van Wyk
Nov 01, 2021
The growing body of literature is reporting positive results when it comes to flipped learning which across disciplines and contexts involves student-centered, technology-integrated teaching. Using a systematic scoping review...
Published by: IGI Global
End-User Perceptions on Information Security
Shandre Jansen van Rensburg
Nov 01, 2021
Information is a vital asset needed by many organizations to function effectively. However, this asset can easily be compromised thus its protection is crucial to the efficacy of an organization. A common information security...
Published by: IGI Global
Sewing the quilt of fragmented experiences
Haley Toll
Oct 01, 2018
In this reflexive self-study, I interweave the heuristic analysis of dreams with reflections on research and data collection processes, as a first-year PhD student, to discover and contemplate my personal ontologies and...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) With First-Year, Pre-Med Students
Medical education emphasizes cross-cultural training programs to meet the needs of diverse patients and understand social determinants of health as root causes leading to healthcare disparities. The question remains about how to...
Published by: IGI Global
Convolutional Neural Network Integrated With Fuzzy Rules for Decision Making in Brain Tumor Diagnosis
Conventional methods used in brain tumors detection, diagnosis, and classification such as magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scanning technologies are unbridged in their results. This paper presents a proposed...
Published by: IGI Global
Incomplete reporting of complex interventions
Reporting of intervention research has been inadequate for many years. The development and promotion of freely available checklists aims to address this problem by providing researchers with a list of items that require...
reproducibility complex interventions Research Integrity Journal Editors Submission Guidelines Reporting Checklists Humans Publishing Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Checklist
Published by: Trials
Profiling the vendors of COVID-19 related product on the Darknet
Valeria Catalani, Honor D Townshend, Mariya Prilutskaya, Andres Roman-Urrestarazu, Robin van Kessel, Robert P Chilcott, Hani Banayoti, Tim McSweeney, Ornella Corazza
Apr 17, 2023
BACKGROUND: In a time of unprecedented global change, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge in demand of COVID-19 vaccines and related certifications. Mainly due to supply shortages, counterfeit vaccines, fake documentation...
Academic Experiences of “Zoom-Fatigue” as a Virtual Streaming Phenomenon During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This phenomenological exploratory multiple-case study design was conducted at an open distance e-learning university and a traditional contact residential university and it was found that the participants viewed video...
Published by: IGI Global
Research on the Aging Voice
Published by: Faculty of Education
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