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Interobserver agreement of computed tomography in detecting calcified intervertebral discs in comparison with radiography in a population of 13 healthy British Dachshund dogs.

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The aims of this retrospective study were to estimate interobserver agreement in detecting disc calcification with computed tomography (CT) and to compare the number of calcified intervertebral discs...
Published by: Veterinary record open
Assessing Business-IT Alignment Maturity at a Colombian University
Over the last decades, the role of the IT department within an organization has gradually gained importance. Technology has permeated all areas within organizations and nowadays is the cornerstone of almost all business...
Published by: IGI Global
Predicting Dissolved Oxygen Concentration in Urban Watersheds
Dissolved Oxygen (DO) concentration is significantly and adversely impacted by urbanisation. However, the processes that govern DO concentration in riverine environments are complex, difficult to understand and to model. In the...
Peak flow prediction using fuzzy linear regression
The 2013 floods in Alberta highlighted the need for better flood prediction. Though the mechanisms behind floods and extreme events in urban areas are understood and documented, the uncertainty in data during these events makes...
Developing Integrated Learning Environments for Improved Outcomes
This chapter addresses the use of design thinking in created integrated learning environments where student learning is captured across curricular and co-curricular experiences. The chapter outlines the current context and...
Published by: IGI Global
Economic Conditions as an Environmental Moderator of E-Purchase Intention
Purchasing through e-commerce continues to expand rapidly and is expected to reach $18.89 trillion by 2027. After two decades of e-commerce research, little is known about the effects of economic conditions (developed vs....
Published by: IGI Global
Impact of Service Quality on Satisfaction
In this present work, Retail Service Quality Scale (RSQS) developed by Dabholkar et. al. (1996) has been used to measure service quality. For the purpose of examining the dimensionality of the scales a confirmatory factor...
Published by: IGI Global
Toward a Significant E-Voting Adoption Model
Technology, through internet use, has changed how citizens interact and communicate with their governments. However, in any society, a proportion of people cannot access this type of interaction due to digital divide issues....
Published by: IGI Global
Value Chain Mapping of Tourism in Birbhum
Tourism is one of the most enhancing and continuous developing economic sectors throughout the world. The main objective of the study is to develop a proper value chain mapping on Birbhum tourism, along with generation of...
Published by: IGI Global
A Visual Saliency-Based Approach for Content-Based Image Retrieval
During the past two decades an enormous amount of visual information has been generated; as a result, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has received considerable attention. In CBIR the image is used as a query to find the...
Published by: IGI Global
Mapping Out Indigenous and Racialized Critical Community-Based Perspectives and Experiences in the Time of COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has had many implications for the lives, health, and well-being of Indigenous and racialized queer individuals and communities across the globe. In this article, three queer social workers (two Indigenous...
Social Media Big Data Analytics for Demand Forecasting
Social media big data offers insights that can be used to make predictions of products' future demand and add value to the supply chain performance. The paper presents a framework for improvement of demand forecasting in a...
Published by: IGI Global
Cuttings Transport Evaluation in Deviated Wells
Cuttings transport efficiency is a measure of the extent to which cuttings are carried to the surface from a drilled hole. It quantifies the success achieved in freeing a well of drilled cuttings. It is also related to the...
Automated Glucose Control
Automated blood glucose control for diabetes mellitus is a highly desired pursuit of researchers around the globe. Advancement in sensing and control capabilities has paced the development of closed-loop control systems for...
Published by: IGI Global
Determinants of Mobile Cloud Computing Adoption by Financial Services Firms
Prior studies have found that mobile cloud computing could bring substantial cost savings to firms, ultimately resulting in reduced transaction cost to customers. Despite this, financial firms in Fiji are slow adopters of mobile...
Published by: IGI Global
Credit Card Fraud Prediction Using XGBoost
With the development of technology, the internet and eCommerce online payment has become an essential mode of payment. Nowadays, credit card payment is a convenient mode of payment online as well as offline transactions. As...
Published by: IGI Global
CloudIoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as a novel paradigm enabling ubiquitous and pervasive communication of objects with each other and with the physical/virtual world via internet. With the exponential rise of sensor and...
Published by: IGI Global
Use of Artificial Neural Network for Forecasting Health Insurance Entitlements
A number of numerical practices exist that actuaries use to predict annual medical claims expense in an insurance company. This amount needs to be included in the yearly financial budgets. Inappropriate estimating generally has...
Published by: IGI Global
Health Insurance Claim Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks
A number of numerical practices exist that actuaries use to predict annual medical claim expense in an insurance company. This amount needs to be included in the yearly financial budgets. Inappropriate estimating generally has...
Published by: IGI Global
Broad Autoencoder Features Learning for Classification Problem
Activation functions such as Tanh and Sigmoid functions are widely used in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and pattern classification problems. To take advantages of different activation functions, the Broad Autoencoder Features...
Published by: IGI Global
Leverage Structure Dynamics and Firm Value
The paper aims to examine the impact of leverage structure dynamics on firm value in Bangladesh. To this end, the panel techniques (GMM and PCSE) were used to control for serial correlation, heteroskedasticity, and...
Published by: IGI Global

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