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Impact on alcohol selection and online purchasing of changing the proportion of available non-alcoholic versus alcoholic drinks
Natasha Clarke, Anna K M Blackwell, Jennifer Ferrar, Katie De-loyde, Mark A Pilling, Marcus R Munafò, Theresa M Marteau, Gareth J Hollands
Apr 17, 2023
Background
Increasing the availability of non-alcoholic options is a promising population-level intervention to reduce alcohol consumption, currently unassessed in naturalistic settings. This study in an online retail...
Published by: PLoS Medicine
Being a Singer
Brian A. Roberts
Nov 19, 2013
Singers both rejoice and suffer under the weight of their instrument. It becomes not only a major part of their identity but, in many cases, it becomes their central or "master status" (Hughes, 1945). This research examines the...
Published by: Faculty of Education
A Model of Cloud Forensic Application With Assurance of Cloud Log
The key concepts of digital forensic investigation in cloud computing are examination and investigation. Cybercriminals target cloud-based web applications due to presence of vulnerabilities. Forensic investigation is a complex...
Published by: IGI Global
Android Botnets
Mobile botnets are gaining popularity with the expressive demand of smartphone technologies. Similarly, the majority of mobile botnets are built on a popular open source OS, e.g., Android. A mobile botnet is a network of...
Published by: IGI Global
A Participatory Design and Formal Study Investigation into Mobile Text Entry for Older Adults
Text entry remains key to many tasks on touchscreen smartphones and is an important factor in the usability of such devices. The known problems of text entry can be particularly acute for older adults due to physical and...
Published by: IGI Global
Review of Francesco Pelosi's Plato on Music, Soul and Body (trans. Sophie Henderson)
Mark Walley
Jan 06, 2012
Review of Francesco Pelosi's Plato on Music, Soul and Body (trans. Sophie Henderson)
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Four Seasons and the Accusative-Locative Opposition in Polish
It sometimes appears that the very possibility of a given case usage depends on the lexical content of the declined nominal. For instance, in Polish the prepositionless instrumental can easily mark the time substantive noc...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
A Novel Framework Using Zero Shot Learning Technique for a Non-Factoid Question Answering System
Non-Factoid Question Answering (QA) is the next generation of textual QA systems, which gives passage level summaries for a natural language query, posted by the user. The main issue lies in the appropriateness of the generated...
Published by: IGI Global
Of Zebra Doves and Prawn Crackers
Marc Benamou
Nov 19, 2013
Both the English and Javanese' languages describe music largely in metaphoric terms. In English, for instance, we use the spatial metaphor "up" and "down" to refer to differences in pitch. In Javanese these same differences are...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Pricing and Public Policy Issues
Pratap Mandal
Oct 01, 2021
Companies adopt pricing policies to maximize the revenues and profits generated. Some of the policies are not fair. Major public policy issues in pricing include unfair pricing practices within distribution channel levels such...
Published by: IGI Global
The Galveston Seawall
Mark Harvey
Apr 09, 2013
Galveston, Texas is a coastal city in the Southeast United States, situated on the Gulf of Mexico. In 1900, a major hurricane struck the city, resulting in significant property damage and loss of life, destroying much of the...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Sentiment Analysis on Movie Reviews Dataset Using Support Vector Machines and Ensemble Learning
The internet makes it easier for people to connect to each other and has become a platform to express ideas and share information with the world. The growth of the internet has indirectly led to the development of social...
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of National Culture Values and Trust in Online Sharing Hospitality Platform Acceptance
The sharing economy, as an emerging business model, has grown greatly in the last decade. However, the acceptance rate of the sharing economy varies from country to country. Researchers have noted the importance of cultural...
Published by: IGI Global
Lane Detection Algorithm Based on Road Structure and Extended Kalman Filter
Lane detection still demonstrates low accuracy and missing robustness when recorded markings are interrupted by strong light or shadows or missing marking. This article proposes a new algorithm using a model of road structure...
Published by: IGI Global
Specialized Educational Leadership for Rural Students Living in Poverty
To serve students living in rural poverty, school leaders must understand intimately the specific challenges that students face. Equally, leaders must embrace and leverage the funds of knowledge and assets that these students...
Public & Sector Management Government and Law Public Health and Welfare Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global
Fully Automatic Detection and Segmentation Approach for Juxta-Pleural Nodules From CT Images
Early detection of all types of lung nodules with different characters in medical modality images using computer-aided detection is the best acceptable remedy to save the lives of lung cancer sufferers. But accuracy of different...
Published by: IGI Global
Information and Communication Technology Adoption Strategies of Emerging Multinationals From India
The growth and rising prominence of multinationals from emerging markets (eMNCs) mark a significant phase in the evolution of the world economy in the last decade. This study investigates the effect of eMNCs' institutional...
Published by: IGI Global
Optimal Weighted Logarithmic Transformation Converted HMOG Features for Automatic Smart Phone Authentication
This paper intends to develop an automatic behavior-based smart phone authentication model by three major phases: feature extraction, weighted logarithmic transformation, and classification. Initially, from the data related to...
Published by: IGI Global
Identification of RNA virus-derived RdRp sequences in publicly available transcriptomic datasets.
RNA viruses are abundant, highly diverse, and infect all or most eukaryotic organisms. However, only a tiny fraction of the number and diversity of RNA virus species have been catalogued. To cost effectively expand the diversity...
The syntax of Gascon clause-type particles
Annick Morin
Nov 20, 2013
Bearnese Gascon uses particles (the so-called "enunciative particles") to mark declarative, interrogative, and exclamative clauses. In this article it is shown that those particles are in the left periphery and that their...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Editor's Preface
James Duffy
May 22, 2020
What did Lonergan have in mind while laying out the structure of dialectic? Could the procedure be at the heart of mediating “between a cultural matrix and the significance and role of religion in that matrix”? This volume...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Ice Scour Risk and Protection on the Grand Banks
Mark Flynn
Apr 09, 2013
Hydrocarbons were first discovered offshore Newfoundland in the late 1970s and full-scale production of these discoveries began in earnest in 1997 with the Hibernia oil field. The estimated total recoverable oil reserves on the...
Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering COASTAL ENGINEERING, 8751; CASE STUDY; OCEAN and NAVAL; ICE SCOUR; EDC; GRAND BANKS; TERRA NOVA;
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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