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Hanratty, Brian, and Dympna Taggart. "The Pushkin Trust: experiential learning and children with special educational needs. An investigation." Irish Educational Studies 24, no. 2-3 (September 2005): 243–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03323310500435539.
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Nikienko, I. V. "Polish books of Sabina Jaroszewska personal collection in A. S. Pushkin Tomsk Regional Universal Scientific Library stocks (its formation history, overview and studying prospects)." Bibliosphere, no. 1 (March 30, 2016): 53–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2016-1-53-57.
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The article deals with book collecting as a way to preserve ethnic and cultural identity. The author examines Sabina Jaroszewska personality as the Polish library creator, her book assemblage history and composition, prospects for detailed studying the Polish collection fragment in A.S. Pushkin Tomsk Regional Universal Scientific Library (TRUSL) stocks are outlined. For the first time catalogues and inventories of the TRUSL Foreign book department are used as well as interviews with Academician Rostislav Karpov, who personally knew the collector.
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Umair Manzoor, Sajjad Ahmad Baig, Muhammad Hashim, and Abdul Sami. "Impact of Social Media Marketing on Consumer’s Purchase Intentions: The Mediating role of Customer Trust." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Research 3, no. 2 (July 19, 2020): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.31580/ijer.v3i2.1386.
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Successful marketing and promotion strategies achieve customer development, profitability, and long-term company success. Present markets become more competitive through changing markets, globalization, and innovative technology, which have rapidly changed the business world. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are pushing marketing companies toward a new direction using social media marketing. Social media has penetrated so deeply into millions of people’s lives worldwide that it has also attracted marketers’ attention. This study will help determine how it influences Pakistani consumers’ purchase intentions. This research used a quantitative method based on primary data. The data was collected from Faisalabad, and the sample size was 250 participants. Among the 250 questionnaires, 190 are useable. The results show that trust and social media influence significantly affect consumers’ purchase intentions. Data analysis reveals that social media marketing has a greater influence than trust in purchase intentions through social networking sites. Therefore, improving websites’ quality enhances customers’ trust. Hence, trust plays an important role in e-commerce by directly influencing the purchasing intentions of customers.
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Pane, Mujahidun Hapisni, Rukiah Rukiah, Budi Gautama Siregar, Wanda Khairun Nasirin, and Randi Friscilla Hidayat. "Influential Celebrities In Sustainable Online Shopping: A Theory Of Reasoned Action Insights." At-tijaroh: Jurnal Ilmu Manajemen dan Bisnis Islam 9, no. 2 (December 6, 2023): 166–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24952/tijaroh.v9i2.9930.
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ABSTRACTThe implementation of lockdown in 2020 as a response to COVID-19 has led to significant behavioral changes, pushing society to adapt to online transactions. This research aims to analyze the influencing factors such as e-trust, e-wom, e-servqual, and celebrity endorsers on online purchase decisions, as well as examine the moderating effect of celebrity endorsers on these decisions. The research methodology used is quantitative with stratified sampling techniques, employing the Structural Equation Model Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) with WarpPLS 8.0 software. The results of the study indicate that e-trust and e-WOM have a positive and significant impact on online purchase decisions, while e-service quality does not have a significant influence. Another finding is that celebrity endorsers can moderate e-trust, strengthen consumer trust in online transactions, and impact purchase decisions. However, celebrity endorsers are not effective in moderating e-WOM and e-service quality in online purchase decisions. In this context, e-trust, e-WOM, and celebrity endorsers play crucial roles in influencing online purchase decisions, in line with the Theory of Reasoned Action. The practical implications of this research emphasize the importance of building consumer trust in online transactions and managing the use of celebrity endorsers wisely to enhance purchase decisions. E-commerce companies and online platforms need to provide high-quality services to strengthen consumer trust. Moreover, the role of e-WOM should also be considered to influence purchase decisions and improve online service quality according to consumer expectations. The policy recommendations resulting from this research highlight the need for companies to focus on managing consumer trust and utilizing celebrity endorsers wisely to enhance sustainable online shopping.
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Koos, Stefan. "Digital Globalization and Law." Lex Scientia Law Review 6, no. 1 (June 9, 2022): 33–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/lesrev.v6i1.55092.
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The regulation of social processes is part of a state’s sovereignty. States apply their law to shape and control social and economic conditions within their territory. Law as an instrument for coordinating human behaviour and for balancing colliding interests within the society is linked to human behaviour, either individually or within human organisations. The basic prerequisite for the existence of law is human interaction based on emotions, desires, and the pursuit of interests. Law and trust (interpersonal trust or system trust) are connected to each other. This leads to the assumption that law loses its relevance with a decrease of the relevance of trust. This article explores the question of which factors of current and future digitalisation could lead to a loss of the relevance of trust and of the relevance of the aspect of human behaviour as a connecting factor for legal norms. The article concludes that technological globalisation and ubiquity of the internet have already led to a loss of state territorial sovereignty. This has resulted in the diminution of system trust in law. The article further shows how digitalisation is pushing back the relevance of human behaviour and emotionality and, therefore, technicity is increasingly displacing law. The article describes the connection between deterritorialization and the development of new disruptive digital technologies and asks about the future role of ethics in the legal system of an advanced digitalised society. The development of concrete solutions and legislative proposals is subject to further studies.
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Salem, Walid. "Beyond Exacerbating Asymmetry and Sustaining Occupation: An Alternative Approach for United States Intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." International Negotiation 23, no. 1 (January 24, 2018): 97–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718069-23011098.
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Abstract Third party mediation is critical in pushing forward a new peace process that is based on Israeli and Palestinian compliance in fulfilling previous agreements, including an Israeli freeze on settlements. The freeze will be part of a transformative constructionist process that will allow both sides to negotiate from a more symmetrical position. It will also create more trust among the Palestinians by communicating that Israeli intentions are not about grabbing their land while discussing peace.
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Victor- Ikoh, Maudlyn I., and Ledisi G. Kabari. "Internet Architecture: Current Limitations Leading Towards Future Internet Architecture." International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing 10, no. 5 (May 30, 2021): 102–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.47760/ijcsmc.2021.v10i05.011.
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The original internet design principle was guided by the end-to-end principle in the early 1980s and formed the foundation for the existing internet architectural model. The priorities of the original internet designers do not match the needs of today actual users; rise in new players, demanding applications, erosion of trust and rights and responsibilities is pushing the internet to a new dimension. This paper presents the goals and principles behind the design of the original internet architecture, the resulting issues and limitations of the existing network architecture and the approaches that is driving the future internet architecture.
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Kiwanuka, Dr Michael. "Building Trust and Reciprocity through Citizen Participation and Transparency: Lessons from Municipal Governments of Uganda and Thailand." International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Research 06, no. 05 (2022): 50–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.51505/ijebmr.2022.6505.
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New governance dynamics are pushing government and its agencies to explore and enhance participatory governance practices at all levels as well as developing and encouraging new partnerships with civil society organizations and other non-state actors. This arrangement however takes participation for granted and does not illustrate how and when it can be meaningful. This article was informed by a study that examined, in a comparative framework and in relation to the expectations created by theory, the extent to which citizen participation reciprocates into trust and transparency in Uganda and Thai municipal governments. Although citizen participation and empowerment are interrelated governance concepts, the study established considerable overlaps between the two. Empowering citizens to understand their stakes and leverage in the local governance processes, and how to make their voices count was concluded to be the missing link in Uganda and Thailand municipal governments. Moreover, without providing citizens with relevant and complete information in user-friendly formats, participation may remain a public display but in reality a surrogate for mere politics with little in terms of citizen trust and reciprocity
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Bartley, Adam, and Aiden Warren. "Whither the Whole of Government? The Trump Administration, National Security, and the Indo-Pacific Strategy." Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 31, no. 1 (2022): 20–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/peacejustice20223112.
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The Trump administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy promised to make America more competitive, to challenge China’s revisionist global agenda, and to push back against the new ‘gray zone’ conflicts of great power competition. Fundamentally, the strategy required the government to exercise a Whole of Government (WoG) approach to bring to bear all elements of national power. Despite wide-ranging calls for WoG, the administration eschewed basic reforms, destroyed interdepartmental trust networks, and over time expelled the conduits of national security, pushing WoG more thoroughly into the military. While departmental emphasis on Indo-Pacific issues took place in the Trump administration, this occurred largely in isolation of grand strategic goals.
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Pinney, Joel, Fiona Carroll, and Paul Newbury. "Human-robot interaction: the impact of robotic aesthetics on anticipated human trust." PeerJ Computer Science 8 (January 14, 2022): e837. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.837.
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Background Human senses have evolved to recognise sensory cues. Beyond our perception, they play an integral role in our emotional processing, learning, and interpretation. They are what help us to sculpt our everyday experiences and can be triggered by aesthetics to form the foundations of our interactions with each other and our surroundings. In terms of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), robots have the possibility to interact with both people and environments given their senses. They can offer the attributes of human characteristics, which in turn can make the interchange with technology a more appealing and admissible experience. However, for many reasons, people still do not seem to trust and accept robots. Trust is expressed as a person’s ability to accept the potential risks associated with participating alongside an entity such as a robot. Whilst trust is an important factor in building relationships with robots, the presence of uncertainties can add an additional dimension to the decision to trust a robot. In order to begin to understand how to build trust with robots and reverse the negative ideology, this paper examines the influences of aesthetic design techniques on the human ability to trust robots. Method This paper explores the potential that robots have unique opportunities to improve their facilities for empathy, emotion, and social awareness beyond their more cognitive functionalities. Through conducting an online questionnaire distributed globally, we explored participants ability and acceptance in trusting the Canbot U03 robot. Participants were presented with a range of visual questions which manipulated the robot’s facial screen and asked whether or not they would trust the robot. A selection of questions aimed at putting participants in situations where they were required to establish whether or not to trust a robot’s responses based solely on the visual appearance. We accomplished this by manipulating different design elements of the robots facial and chest screens, which influenced the human-robot interaction. Results We found that certain facial aesthetics seem to be more trustworthy than others, such as a cartoon face versus a human face, and that certain visual variables (i.e., blur) afforded uncertainty more than others. Consequentially, this paper reports that participant’s uncertainties of the visualisations greatly influenced their willingness to accept and trust the robot. The results of introducing certain anthropomorphic characteristics emphasised the participants embrace of the uncanny valley theory, where pushing the degree of human likeness introduced a thin line between participants accepting robots and not. By understanding what manipulation of design elements created the aesthetic effect that triggered the affective processes, this paper further enriches our knowledge of how we might design for certain emotions, feelings, and ultimately more socially acceptable and trusting robotic experiences.
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Chepurenko, Alexander. "Small family business in Russia: formal or informal?" International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 38, no. 9/10 (September 10, 2018): 809–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-04-2017-0046.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deal with informal entrepreneurial activity of micro and small family businesses in the specific transitional environment. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses two cases – an informal micro business (“marginal” family business), and a formal retail small firm (“simpleton” family firm), respectively, of a panel conducted in 2013–2015 in Moscow. Findings First, the real distribution of responsibilities between family members is informal; it relies more on interpersonal trust and “common law.” Second, exactly the ease of governing such trust-based businesses for the founders’ generation sets limits of succession of small-scale family businesses. Third, as trust in the state is very low, the policy of Russian authorities to quickly force informal entrepreneurs to become legalized is substantially wrong; the results would be either a transformation of “simpleton” into “marginal” businesses or quitting business. Research limitations/implications Research limitations of the study are the number of observations and the localization of the panel only in the capital of Russia. Practical implications The fundamental failure of Russian State policy toward small-scale family businesses is its attempt to convince “marginal” to formalize and to oppress “simpleton” family businesses pushing them into informality. In fact, it should be designed vice versa: tolerate “marginal” businesses and let them to “live and die” while shaping a friendly environment for “simpleton” family firms. Originality/value The paper argues that the most important facet of informality in small family entrepreneurship is the informal property rights and governance duties’ distribution among the family members.
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Omotubora, Adekemi, and Subhajit Basu. "Regulation for E-payment Systems: Analytical Approaches Beyond Private Ordering." Journal of African Law 62, no. 2 (April 12, 2018): 281–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855318000104.
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AbstractTechnology-driven payment instruments and services are facilitating the development of e-commerce; however, security concerns beleaguer their implementation, particularly in developing countries. This article considers the limits of private ordering in the regulation of e-payment systems. It uses Nigeria to exemplify a developing country that is increasingly pushing for the adoption of a regulatory framework for e-payment systems based on private ordering. It argues that, although technical standards and self-regulation by the financial industry are important, law is an essential regulatory mechanism that is largely absent. The article proposes that law be used as a mechanism to set and compel compliance with technical and industry standards, thus building trust, catering to public interest concerns and legitimizing the regulatory process.
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Valentinavičius, Virgis. "Deficit of Trust and the Decline of Print Media in Lithuania." Žurnalistikos Tyrimai 10 (May 22, 2017): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/zt/jr.2016.10.10696.
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Since the turn of the 21st century, the global decline of print media has become a universally accepted inevitability, along with the broad consensus that this has been brought about by the internet and social media. The ascendancy of new media and the vicissitudes of digital transformation, along with shrinking advertising revenues and the sudden death of classified advertisements, have been piling up pressure on print media worldwide. In the meantime, there are some additional local factors at work in Lithuania that could propel Lithuania to be become one of the first countries in Europe to lose the printed press for good. The decline of Lithuanian print media has been caused not only by technological progress and new innovative media business models, but also by a rather flawed development of the traditional media, as the tested instruments of trust building have faced serious difficulties in taking root in the country’s print media culture. The downturn in the print media points to the limited ability of the Lithuanian press to strike a right balance between the public interest and the efficiency of the business model, as well as to a lack of willingness to create and uphold certain standards of transparency and journalist ethics. Reluctance to discuss deficiencies of the trade in an open way and weak motivation to develop an honest, efficient and credible media regulation environment have also been responsible for the print media’s decline. The vicious circle of the controversial business model which diminishes trust, and low trust which further undermines the financial viability of Lithuanian newspapers are in effect pushing the print media out of the market earlier than pure technological progress is asking for. The predicament of the press is making an impact on the Lithuanian media in general, by narrowing the advertising market. On the other hand, choices made by the public, unfavorable to the printed press, are giving the media valuable directions to move faster towards new forms of media that are more sensitive to the public interest and, accordingly, can command higher trust.
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Khalid, Bilal, Mariusz Urbański, Monika Kowalska-Sudyka, Elżbieta Wysłocka, and Barbara Piontek. "Evaluating Consumers’ Adoption of Renewable Energy." Energies 14, no. 21 (November 1, 2021): 7138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14217138.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the consumers’ adoption of renewable energy in Poland. The study focused on finding out the factors that influence the adoption of the technology, considering its importance in conserving the environment. The study was conducted using a quantitative method, with primary data collected from 467 households using renewable energy technology in Poland. The research adopted the TAM model. The independent variables of the study included renewable energy initial cost, environmental concern, risk and trust for renewable energy, ease of use, financial incentives, and relative advantage. The dependent variable was renewable energy adoption. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to analyze the study hypotheses. The research found out that environmental concerns, ease of use, financial incentives, and relative advantage have a positive and significant influence on adoption of renewable energy technology in Poland. However, renewable energy initial cost and risk, and trust for renewable energy did not significantly influence renewable energy adoption. The study recommended that the stakeholders should consider the aspects of environmental concern as a key role player in pushing for adoption of renewable energy. The government, non-governmental organizations, and concerned stakeholders should consider giving incentives towards renewable energy adoption. Creating awareness regarding the benefits and strengths of renewable energy should be prioritized to the households.
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Midheme, Emmanuel, and Frank Moulaert. "Pushing back the frontiers of property: Community land trusts and low-income housing in urban Kenya." Land Use Policy 35 (November 2013): 73–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.05.005.
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Grech, Aaron. "What Makes Pension Reforms Sustainable?" Sustainability 10, no. 8 (August 15, 2018): 2891. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10082891.
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Policymakers pushing pension reforms have tended to justify changes on the basis that they would make systems more sustainable by lowering future spending on pensions. This is a rather narrow interpretation of sustainability that fails to consider that other fiscal programs may need to accommodate the impact of reforms that reduce pension system adequacy. In this light, this article argues that in order to correctly assess the sustainability of pension reforms, one needs to adopt a more holistic framework that encapsulates the interaction between pension system goals and constraints. In a number of countries, reforms focused solely on reducing future spending were followed by reforms that restored generosity. A holistic approach to assess pension sustainability could help limit this cycle of reform and increase trust in pension systems.
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Yapa, Shanta R., R. Senathiraja, Jurgen Poesche, and Ilkka Kauranen. "Sequential Coherence as a Success Factor in Personal Selling." International Journal of Marketing Studies 12, no. 2 (March 12, 2020): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v12n2p13.
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Personal selling, especially in knowledge intensive contexts, demands effective knowledge transfer between all the parties involved. In our study, we have developed a new conceptual model of sequential coherence that helps to better understand knowledge flows in personal selling. The model describes how social capital, contact intensity, trust and rewards influence sequential coherence. Sequential coherence refers to the reciprocal result of the pushing effects induced by individuals of a teaching firm and the pulling effects induced by individuals of a learning firm that enables knowledge to flow across the boundaries of firms (Yapa et al., 2019). The objective of this concept paper is to explain how sequential coherence can be used as a success factor in personal selling of technology products. Our contribution is useful to both scholars and practitioners.
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Nguyên, Thanh Trúc T., and Lauren K. Mark. "Cyberbullying, Sexting, and Online Sharing." International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning 4, no. 1 (January 2014): 76–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcbpl.2014010106.
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Schools are pushing to implement more technology use to promote student learning. Yet, adults may not be completely aware of the non-academic online activities students engage in, like cyberbullying, sexting, and online sharing. In this study, parents (N = 663) and educators (N = 548) from four US states were surveyed on their understanding and awareness of their children's/students' online activities. Adult awareness levels and perspectives were compared. Parents and educators were found to be similarly supportive of computer use adding value to student education, but significantly differed in their trust levels of students' computer usage, preparedness to talk to students about Internet safety issues, and comfort regarding students using online social media. Additionally, parents and educators differed significantly in their understanding of how sharing of explicit material occurs online.
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Barrett, Jack W. "Ambulance clinicians’ perspectives of sharing patient information electronically." British Paramedic Journal 4, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 49–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.29045/14784726.2019.12.4.3.49.
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Introduction: Communication in the NHS is vital to patient care and safety. Government bodies are pushing for the digitisation of patient health records so that access and transfer of information is easier between patient care teams. Many ambulance trusts have issued their clinical staff tablet computers as a step in the transition from paper-based to electronic-based patient health records. This study aims to evaluate whether these ambulance clinicians perceive tangible benefits to digitisation, particularly regarding collaborative working with other healthcare professionals.Methods: Registered and non-registered clinical staff in one ambulance trust completed an online questionnaire utilising five-point Likert scales to collect data about their experiences of using electronic incident summary notifications to report back to the patient’s GP, and on direct patient referrals to community teams for falls and hypoglycaemic episodes. Participants only completed questions relevant to the process they had experienced.Results: From approximately 2115 members of staff eligible to participate, there were 201 respondents (9.50%) who provided information concerning GP summary notifications, fall referrals or hypoglycaemia referrals (n = 154, 76.62%; n = 178, 88.56%; n = 101, 50.25%, respectively).Overall, staff perceived the electronic communication of patient information as useful, but not essential, to their practice. The applications were seen as easy to use and a safer way to handle patient data. Though their use was felt to prolong the time spent on scene, this was regarded as an efficient use of a clinician’s time.Many staff would prefer to talk directly to a patient’s GP, but fewer felt that this was required for community referrals. While most participants did not feel obliged to send a GP summary notification of every encounter, the majority believed that the rates of appropriate falls and hypoglycaemia referrals would be improved with direct electronic communication.Respondents felt that recording and sharing patient information electronically improved collaborative working with other healthcare professionals, and they preferred having this ability.Conclusion: NHS ambulance trusts are transitioning to electronic patient records and this article suggests that ambulance staff are in favour of this transition when the technology is readily accessible and easy to use. Staff believe this approach is a safer way to store and share patient data and that collaborative working is enhanced. However, many clinicians would still prefer to discuss some incidents directly with a GP rather than sending a summary, highlighting the value staff place on real-time professional interaction when managing a patient.
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Kadhim, Amal Abbas, and Azal Minshed Abid. "A Survey of Blockchain From the Perspectives of Architecture and Applications." International Journal of Engineering Research and Advanced Technology 08, no. 03 (2022): 07–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.31695/ijerat.2022.8.3.2.
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The increasing need for organizations to keep a high level of synchronization around the world and the coming of new advancements are pushing increasingly more to move decision-making and operational power from the focus of associations to their edges. The blockchain could be the critical innovation to roll out this improvement conceivable. A blockchain is essentially a distributed database of records or public ledger of all transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties. Blockchain is pleased with the fact that it provides high satisfaction and a trust bond to its users. Data immutability, decentralization, anonymity, auditability, and transparency are the main features that make blockchain an attractive technology. This paper presents a study of blockchain technology to provide a comprehensive analysis that includes types, architecture, components, characteristics, and applications of blockchain.
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Steil, Justin, and Aditi Mehta. "When Prison Is the Classroom: Collaborative Learning about Urban Inequality." Journal of Planning Education and Research 40, no. 2 (October 3, 2017): 186–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x17734048.
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This article analyzes the pedagogy of an urban sociology course taught in prison, with both outside and imprisoned students. The course examined the production of knowledge used in the field of planning and sought to facilitate the coproduction of new insights about urban inequality. Participant observation, focus groups, and students’ written reflections reveal that, in comparison to traditional classroom settings, students explored with greater complexity their embodiment of multiple social identities, wrestled more deeply with the structural embeddedness of individual agency, and situated their personal experiences in a broader theoretical narrative about urban inequality. Building trust in the face of significant power disparities within the classroom was essential to learning. The findings highlight the importance of new locations of learning that enable classrooms to become contact zones, pushing students to collaboratively reimagine justice in the city with those outside the traditional classroom.
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Jin-Young Kim. "Conditions of US-North Korea Nuclear Bargaining: for the successful pushing forward of the ‘Trust- building Process on the Korean Peninsula’." 21st centry Political Science Review 23, no. 3 (December 2013): 131–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17937/topsr.23.3.201312.131.
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Sreekanth, Gayathri, and Nicky Jones. "An unusual case with a challenging combination of glaucoma, keratoconus, and ocular surface disease." Edorium Journal of Ophthalmology 5, no. 2 (September 13, 2022): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5348/100006o02gs2021cr.
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A 64-year-old gentleman presented for the first time with severe pain, redness, and blurred vision in his left eye with examination revealing corneal hydrops. Discussion with the patient revealed a complex history of bilateral keratoconus and glaucoma. He also had chronic kidney disease, diabetes, Parkinson’s, and mental health conditions. Management of the patient involved a delicate balance between building enough trust to allow examination of the anxious patient without pushing too hard that he would not come back for treatment. Treatment was further complicated when he developed Herpes Simplex Keratitis and a rise in his intraocular pressures. The patient was not comfortable being in a hospital environment as he felt that he would “catch something,” he would also refuse some examinations and tests. However, with a gentle approach and support from occupational therapy and community nursing teams, a way forward was found that enabled him to remain living independently.
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Bagheri, Mahmood, and Jia Zhou. "Beneficial Ownership Transparency: The Viability of Global Implementation of G20 High-Level Principles." European Business Law Review 32, Issue 6 (December 1, 2021): 1021–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/eulr2021037.
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The concept of beneficial ownership originally came from dual ownership regime which allows the division of legal and beneficial ownership, serving good economic functions, i.e. protection of family property and personal privacy. However, as dual ownership structures, e.g. trust, have been abused to such an extent that the transparency now outweighs the economic values of dual ownership, at least for most developed economies of the world. The G20 High-Level Principles on Beneficial Ownership Transparency thus came into being, pushing forward an agenda for changing the law globally to make the identities of the beneficial owners transparent, with a broader term of beneficial ownership than its original use in trust law. In this paper, we argue that these Principles, made by and serving the interests of small exclusive group of developed countries, could not be applied universally as the rule-takers, i.e. developing countries, do not share the same concern as the developed world and are unwilling to counter a problem they did not consider as a priority. Under the pressure of robust review mechanisms and name-and-shame strategy deployed by FATF and relevant international financial bodies, the rule-takers are forced to make relevant changes, but the changes will just be artificial and superficial to bypass the Principles prescribed and recommended by the rule makers who are not themselves taking a serious step to implement them. Legal and beneficial ownership, money laundering, transparency, G20, developed and developing economies, divergence of priorities.
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Abulof, Uriel, Shirley Le Penne, and Bonan Pu. "The pandemic politics of existential anxiety: Between steadfast resistance and flexible resilience." International Political Science Review 42, no. 3 (April 14, 2021): 350–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01925121211002098.
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We all know we will die, but not when and how. Can private death awareness become public, and what happens when it does? This mixed-method research on the Covid-19 crisis reveals how pandemic politics cultivates and uses mass existential anxiety. Analyzing global discourse across vast corpora, we reveal an exceptional rise in global ‘mortality salience’ (awareness of death), and trace the socio-political dynamics feeding it. Comparing governmental pandemic policies worldwide, we introduce a novel model discerning ‘mortality mitigation’ (coping mechanisms) on a scale from steadfast resistance (‘oak’) to flexible resilience (‘reed’). We find that political trust, high median age, and social anxiety predict a reedy approach; and that the oak, typically pushing for stricter measures, better mitigates mortality. Stringency itself, however, hardly affects Covid-related cases/deaths. We enrich our model with brief illustrations from five countries: China and Israel (both oaks), Sweden and Germany (reeds) and the USA (an oak–reed hybrid).
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Sharma, Amit. "HULK and DDoS Attacks in Web Applications with Detection Mechanism." International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology 6, no. 6 (June 29, 2018): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.23956/ijermt.v6i6.268.
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Distributed Denial of Service attacks are significant dangers these days over web applications and web administrations. These assaults pushing ahead towards application layer to procure furthermore, squander most extreme CPU cycles. By asking for assets from web benefits in gigantic sum utilizing quick fire of solicitations, assailant robotized programs use all the capacity of handling of single server application or circulated environment application. The periods of the plan execution is client conduct checking and identification. In to beginning with stage by social affair the data of client conduct and computing individual user’s trust score will happen and Entropy of a similar client will be ascertained. HTTP Unbearable Load King (HULK) attacks are also evaluated. In light of first stage, in recognition stage, variety in entropy will be watched and malevolent clients will be recognized. Rate limiter is additionally acquainted with stop or downsize serving the noxious clients. This paper introduces the FAÇADE layer for discovery also, hindering the unapproved client from assaulting the framework.
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Loukil, Faiza, Khouloud Boukadi, Rasheed Hussain, and Mourad Abed. "CioSy: A Collaborative Blockchain-Based Insurance System." Electronics 10, no. 11 (June 3, 2021): 1343. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111343.
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The insurance industry is heavily dependent on several processes executed among multiple entities, such as insurer, insured, and third-party services. The increasingly competitive environment is pushing insurance companies to use advanced technologies to address multiple challenges, namely lack of trust, lack of transparency, and economic instability. To this end, blockchain is used as an emerging technology that enables transparent and secure data storage and transmission. In this paper, we propose CioSy, a collaborative blockchain-based insurance system for monitoring and processing the insurance transactions. To the best of our knowledge, the existing approaches do not consider collaborative insurance to achieve an automated, transparent, and tamper-proof solution. CioSy aims at automating the insurance policy processing, claim handling, and payment using smart contracts. For validation purposes, an experimental prototype is developed on Ethereum blockchain. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach is both feasible and economical in terms of time and cost.
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Martinez, Fabien, Frank Figge, Sylvaine Castellano, Atreya Chakraborty, and Lucia Silva‐Gao. "How did corporate responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic correspond with CSR?" Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility 32, S3 (September 26, 2023): 161–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/beer.12536.
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AbstractThis editorial of the special issue addresses the question of whether/how responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic corresponded with authentic CSR. The literature on CSR has tended to endorse a business‐centric perspective and its inherent focus on the search for alignments between CSR activities and the economic/financial interests of the firm. The Covid‐19 pandemic has put this perspective to the test, pushing many companies to engage in distinctively more genuine and authentic CSR and/or demonstrating the importance of prior CSR engagement in facilitating crisis management. The papers included in the special issue appear to converge on the idea that firms combining evidence of both pre‐crisis engagement in CSR and strong CSR performance during the crisis (demonstrated through the deployment of various CSR assets and resources, including certified reporting, social marketing, individual engagement, resilience, legitimacy, trust) have coped better. This provides interested researchers with an opportunity to appreciate the value of CSR during a crisis.
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Bartha, Zoltán. "China’s grand strategy within 21st-century megatrends." Észak-magyarországi Stratégiai Füzetek 21, no. 2 (July 4, 2024): 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.32976/stratfuz.2024.16.
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The main aim of this study is to identify possible components of China’s grand strategy and check how they can influence global megatrends. Based on a literature review, four grand strategy components are identified: 1) building up military power, 2) consolidating power at the peripheries and pushing for more control over disputed territories, 3) expanding economic influence through the Belt and Road Initiative, and 4) establishing new standards in digital technologies and promoting cyber sovereignty. These strategic tools can directly affect the following megatrends that are commonly mentioned in the literature: shift of economic power, emerging markets, new economic order; digitalisation; globalisation; deglobalization, trade reduction; diversity of governance, trust in the political system; and scarce resources. Using data taken from Google Trends it is shown that in the 2004-2023 period the trends of Chinese grand strategy terms correlate most with terms that represent the following three megatrends: digitalisation, globalisation, and scarce resources.
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Dunn, Alyssa Hadley, Beth Sondel, and Hannah Carson Baggett. "“I Don’t Want to Come Off as Pushing an Agenda”: How Contexts Shaped Teachers’ Pedagogy in the Days After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election." American Educational Research Journal 56, no. 2 (October 3, 2018): 444–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0002831218794892.
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Guided by perspectives on the sociopolitical contexts of schooling, control of teachers’ curriculum and instruction, and teaching of elections, we use findings from a national questionnaire to explore the contexts that shaped teachers’ pedagogical decision making following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Our findings reveal that classroom, school, district, state, and national contexts often manifested in pressure from colleagues, parents, the administration, the district, and the public. This pressure is reflective of the lack of trust, autonomy, and professionalism for teachers in our current climate. The days immediately following the election revealed new understandings about teachers’ views on neutrality, opportunities for agency within control of teachers’ work, and a call for justice-oriented pedagogy. Implications for teacher education, practice, and research are discussed.
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Likaj, Matilda, Ramiola Kalemi, and Fatma Ceyda Bas. "Happiness and Emigration as A Challenge to Albanian University Youth: A National Level Case." Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental 18, no. 1 (May 13, 2024): e05806. http://dx.doi.org/10.24857/rgsa.v18n1-147.
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Aim: The research article aims to analyse happiness as the primary indicator of the current emigration potential of university youth. The challenges of decision-making of Albanian university youth to emigrate tease out the social, political and economic factors as indicators to decrease the level of happiness in terms of personal (being happy with life in general, with life, with family life in the last four years) and in social perspective such as being happy with economic status and house/shelter, the level of satisfaction with current life (standards of living), and the level of trust (in political and governmental institutions; in people, friends and media), as the pushing factors to potential emigration of youth. Methods: To guarantee a national-level measurement of the university youth emigration potential, due to the mentioned indicators, the empirical data gained from the quantitative online survey research on the measurement of opinions of (N=1010) Albanian university youth, at the national level of (N=7) (all) public universities in Albania, in (N=13) departments on social sciences profile, analysed by the Statistical program IMB SPSS 26, in different statistical approach analysis, such as descriptive, frequency, cross-tabs and Kurtosis. Results: Many measurement indicators show that personal and social levels of happiness reflect on a ‘low level of subjective well-being, unsatisfaction subjective well-being and dissatisfaction with life and living conditions that decrease the level of trust and security for life, and proxy dimensions of emigration decision (intention and concrete plan to migrate) of university youth. Conclusion: The low satisfaction (with life and living conditions), and low trust in the state bodies and political institutions, due to the current, social, political and economic conditions, formed an elation among the variables, on the conclusion that happiness is the main push factor and a challenge for potential emigration of university youth as high skilled worker, in the next years.
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Dai, Weishi, Jie Xing, Xiayi Yan, and Wenye Zhao. "Research on Airline Strategy under COVID-19: Flight Pricing and Human Resources Perspectives." BCP Business & Management 38 (March 2, 2023): 2424–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpbm.v38i.4115.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global recession in the economy. People travel less due to stricter restrictions set by governments worldwide and fewer business activities due to the spread of the disease. This means that the airlines will receive a sharp decrease in income, which is a disaster for them because the cost is inelastic. To help change the situation of the airlines, this paper presents a calibration method based on the data of Chinese airlines and international flight data. The proposed method contains three parts: long-term price strategy, including pricing setting for domestic and international flights; new ways of price discrimination and pricing differences pushing up the demands, the new policies for the flight attendants, including wearing masks and introducing policies to prevent the virus from spreading. The experimental method’s result shows that COVID-19’s impact on airlines can be significantly improved with an accurate way to regain customers’ trust and willingness to travel by air compared to the pre-COVID method of working.
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Aleksandrova, Olga. "Value or burden: how do youth trust in the institutions of the welfare state affect their future?" Science. Culture. Society 29, no. 3 (October 5, 2023): 109–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/nko.2023.29.3.6.
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The article analyzes young people's perceptions of the ability of the state health care system and pension insurance to meet current and future needs for adequate medical care and a prosperous life, and the impact that they can have on the fate of these institutions. It is shown that young people do not count on a state pension, which is primarily due to the disappointing experience of current pensioners , as well as the mass involvement of young people in informal employment, which does not involve paying taxes and deductions to social funds. The respondents justify the latter by the fact that they do not expect any care from the state and in the future rely only on themselves. Young people are also skeptical about public health care. Problems with timely access to a doctor’s appointment and diagnostic examination in district clinics, their unfriendly medical staff , doubts about its professional qualities are pushing young people into private medicine, which they see in a much more positive light. It is significant that, in the opinion of the respondents, public medical institutions are ahead of private ones in terms of the aggregate index of abuse of trust, and its key forms are those that are designed to force patients to resort to paid services. Respondents explain the readiness of employees of state medical institutions for such unseemly behavior, first of all, by mercenary considerations, as well as fear not to fulfil of the demanding of superiors an increase in the volume of paid services. Negative perceptions of young people about the state pensions and the health care system lead to their devaluation. The loss of support in the generations that are becoming the majority is fraught for these institutions with further degradation and even abolishment that does not meet with much resistance. This is detrimental not only from the point of view of future social risks in a society devoid of “safety nets”, but also in terms of the further disintegration of society.
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Gregory, Sam. "Cameras Everywhere Revisited: How Digital Technologies and Social Media Aid and Inhibit Human Rights Documentation and Advocacy." Journal of Human Rights Practice 11, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 373–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huz022.
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Abstract Pessimism currently prevails around human rights globally, as well as about the impact of digital technology and social media in supporting rights. However, there have been key successes in the use of these tools for documentation and advocacy in the past decade, including greater participation, more documentation, and growth of new fields around citizen evidence and fact-finding. Governments and others antagonistic to human rights have caught up in terms of weaponizing the affordances of the internet and pushing back on rights actors. Key challenges to be grappled with are consistent with ones that have existed for a decade but are exacerbated now—how to protect and enhance safety of vulnerable people and provide agency over visibility and anonymity; how to ensure and improve trust and credibility of human rights documentation and advocacy campaigning; and how to identify and use new strategies that optimize for a climate of volume of media, declining trust in traditional sources, and active strategies of distraction and misinformation. All of these activities take place primarily within a set of platforms that are governed by commercial imperatives and attention-based algorithms, and that increasingly use unaccountable content moderation processes driven by artificial intelligence. The article argues for a pragmatic approach to harm reduction within the platforms and tools that are used by a diverse range of human rights defenders, and for a proactive engagement on ensuring that an inclusive human rights perspective is centred in responses to new challenges at a global level within a multipolar world as well as specific areas of challenge and opportunity such as fake news and authenticity, deepfakes, use of artificial intelligence to find and make sense of information, virtual reality, and how we ensure effective solidarity activism. Solutions and usages in these areas must avoid causing inadvertent as well as deliberate harms to already marginalized people.
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Ruggieri, Nicola. "Evoluzione della carpenteria lignea dei tetti in Grecia tra età arcaica e classica. Alla ricerca di tracce di incavallature." Restauro Archeologico 30, no. 1 (July 24, 2022): 54–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/rar-12989.
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The paper analyzes the evolution of the organization of timber roofing carpentry in Greece and in the colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia in a chronological scope between the archaic and classical periods. A substantial continuity, lacking evident innovations, characterizes the organization of the carpentry of the roofs constituted, in general, by a horizontal member on which rest on props – king and queen posts – coinciding with the purlins, useful for receiving the secondary framework and the roof covering. The lack of evident indicators, in a cognitive framework that is however extremely fragmented, and a constructive culture on timber that does not seem to excel for technological advancement raises many doubts about a possible pioneering use, even in constructions with high distance between supports, of carpentry organized as a truss system, with no pushing component on the wall.
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Ahmad, Naseer, and Zhou Guijun. "Inclusion or exclusion." European Journal of Language Policy: Volume 14, Issue 2 14, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 181–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ejlp.2022.11.
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The choice of a medium of instruction (MoI) is an ideological construct, closely linked to language, ideology and power. The Urdu/English-medium divide in Pakistan has reframed the ideologies in a way that a large majority of the rural population has become status conscious. English-Medium Instruction (EMI) policy has been used as a lens to examine parental ideologies of dropped-out children in language choice as MoI and to observe the gap between actual language policy and practices. Building on Spolsky’s (2004) Language Policy Model, a framework has been explicated to analyse the ideological change in the context of language choice with reference to EMI. Results suggest that the policy and practice gap concerning English has proven to be a tool of exclusion rather than inclusion for the masses and thus poor parents idealise English-medium schooling as the only option for a better future for their children, or otherwise pushing them out of public schools. This research, therefore, argues that in order to ensure inclusion, language-ineducation policy needs to be revisited on the principles of equity and impartiality so that it can win parents’ trust.
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Kim, Younghee. "No Cozy Catastrophe: A Critique of Technological Civilization in John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids." British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea 149 (June 30, 2023): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21297/ballak.2023.149.1.
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This study investigates John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids(1951), an iconic piece of post-apocalyptic literature, by focusing on the array of disasters portrayed within the narrative. It explores the inversion of established dominance-subordination dynamics stemming from a botanical retaliation and humanity’s downfall due to unbridled greed and uncritical trust in technology. The analysis delves deeper into the circumstances leading to widespread human blindness triggered by malfunctioning artificial satellites armed with chemical weapons. This event displaces humans from their position as nature’s exploiters, thereby overturning the nature-human relationship. Further, the study illuminates how Triffids, carnivorous plants resulting from haphazard genetic modification experiments and used to serve capitalist interests, steadily infiltrate England’s sophisticated society, pushing humanity towards extinction. Despite the ‘cozy catastrophe’ tag, The Day of the Triffids is far from comforting, and it graphically communicates the disastrous consequences of human arrogance and blind reliance on technological civilization. This research explores the gradual encroachment of British civilization by the Triffids, scrutinizes the reversal of the nature-human relationship as most of the populace loses sight, and examines how such a fictional disaster can offer realistic societal contemplation.
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Wilson, Nicholas. "THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED USEFULNESS AND PERCEIVED EASE-OF-USE TOWARD REPURCHASE INTENTION IN THE INDONESIAN E-COMMERCE INDUSTRY." Jurnal Manajemen Indonesia 19, no. 3 (December 31, 2019): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.25124/jmi.v19i3.2412.
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This research was conducted to understand the impact of perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use on repurchase intention in the Indonesian e-commerce industry. A total of 400 respondents participated in this research, in which, collected data were further analyzed using PLS-SEM method. Smart PLS 3.2.7 software was used to analyze and generate the results required for the concluding this research. Based on the results of the data analysis, it could be concluded that both perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use had a positive impact on Indonesian consumers’ repurchase intention in the e-commerce industry, both directly and indirectly through trust. Based on these result, author would like to suggest that companies practicing their business in theIndonesian E-Commerce Industry to make upgrade their system to be more simpler yet understandable regarding the website or the apps that the company develop in order to reduce the level of confusion between the users, while at the same time, companies should also create a website or system in which people will perceive that such an app or e-commerce website would be beneficial in helping them in enhancing their daily activities, thus pushing them to learn and use the system. To author’s best knowledge, this is one of a few studies which conduct an assessment regarding the relationship between variables in the e-commerce industry using PLS-SEM approach.
Keywords—E-Commerce Industry, Perceived Ease-of-Use,Perceived usefulness, Repurchase Intention, Trust
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Penelitian ini dilakukan untukmengetahui pengaruh perceived usefulnessdan perceived ease-of-useterhadap repurchase intentionpelanggan pada industri e-commercedi Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode survey, dimana, sebanyak 440 responden berpartisipasi dengan mengisi kuesioner yang diberikan. Setelah mengumpulkan seluruh data dari responden, data tersebut kemudian diolah dengan menggunakan metode PLS-SEM. Software Smart PLS versi 3.2.7 digunakan untuk menganalisis danmenemukan hasil akhir dari pengolahan data ini akan digunakan untuk menyimpulkan hasil dari penelitian ini. Berdasarkan hasil analisis data, peneliti dapat menyimpulkan bahwa kedua variabel independen, yaitu perceived usefulness dan perceived ease-of-useberpengaruh positif terhadap repurchase intention, baik secara langsung maupun secara tidak langsung melalui trust. Berdasarkan hasil ini, peneliti ingin menyarankan kepada seluruh perusahaanyang bergerak di industri e-commerce di Indonesia untuk dapat menigkatkan kualitas sistemnya, dimana, system yang diimplementasikan oleh perusahaan haruslah mudah untuk dipelajari dan dimengerti oleh masyarakat dengan tujuan agar masyarakat tidak bingung di dalam menggunakan system yang dikelola oleh perusahaan. Selain itu, peneliti juga ingin menyarankan kepada perusahaan untuk dapat menciptakan suatu sistem e-commerce yang dimana sistem tersebut akan dipersepsikan sebagai suatu sistem yang akan berguna bagi masyarakat di dalam membantu mereka untuk melakukan aktivitas sehari-hari, sehingga, masyarakat akan belajar dan menggunakan sistem yang dikelola oleh perusahaan e-commerce tersebut. Berdasarkan hasil studi yang dilakukan oleh peneliti, penelitian ini merupakan satu dari sedikit penelitian yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antar variabel melalui metode PLS-SEM pada industri e-commerce di Indonesia.
Kata kunci—Industri E-Commerce,Perceived ease-of-use,Perceived usefulness,Repurchase Intention,Trust
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Walgrave, Lode. "Restorative Justice in Severe Times." New Criminal Law Review 22, no. 4 (2019): 618–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2019.22.4.618.
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Restorative justice is based on mutual respect and inclusion through dialogue. This approach may be threatened in current severe times, characterized by rampant individualism and mutual distrust. In crime and justice issues, exclusion and punishment are pushing away approaches based on inclusion and persuasion. In such a socio-cultural climate, restorative justice is threatened indeed to being co-opted as an extension to the predominant punitive and controlling tendency. However, countervailing forces persist in social life, social practice, and in the arts. A social-scientific tendency is also aware of its social responsibility and seeks to serve the quality of social life based on more mutual respect, solidarity, and taking active responsibility. Restorative justice can be a part of these countervailing forces, if it safeguards its roots in this socio-ethical groundstream. It may be a spearhead of what we can call a “criminology of trust,” a criminology that understands that all policy regarding crime and justice issues must be grounded in respect, inclusion, and persuasion. Particularly, restorative justice’s contribution to this is twofold. First, it offers a realistic and more positive alternative to detrimental punitiveness. Second, it contributes to de-dramatizing and demystifying the image of crime and criminals to more realistic dimensions (which are in themselves serious enough).
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Zin, Min. "Burmese Attitude toward Chinese: Portrayal of the Chinese in Contemporary Cultural and Media Works." Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 31, no. 1 (March 2012): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810341203100107.
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This paper argues that since at least the mid 1980s, there has been an observable negative attitude among the people of Burma against the Chinese. Such sentiment is not just transient public opinion, but an attitude. The author measures it by studying contemporary cultural and media works as found in legally published expressions, so as to exclude any material rejected by the regime's censors. The causes of such sentiment are various: massive Chinese migration and purchases of real estate (especially in Upper Burma), Chinese money that is inflating the cost of everything, and cultural “intrusion.” The sentiment extends to the military, as well: the article examines a dozen memoirs of former military generals and finds that Burma's generals do not trust the Chinese, a legacy of China's interference in Burma's civil war until the 1980s. The public outcry over the Myitsone dam issue, however, was the most significant expression of such sentiment since 1969, when anti-Chinese riots broke out in Burma. The relaxation of media restrictions under the new government has allowed this expression to gather steam and spread throughout the country, especially in private weekly journals that are becoming more outspoken and daring in pushing the boundaries of the state's restrictions.
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Grbeša, Marijana. "Communicating COVID-19 Pandemic." Anali Hrvatskog politološkog društva 17, no. 1 (December 2, 2020): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.20901/an.17.03.
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In February 2020 Croatia was affected by the COVID-19 global pandemic. A challenging task of communicating the pandemic was assumed by the people associated with the Headquarters of Civil Protection of the Republic of Croatia. The goal of this study was to examine how three of them were covered in the media and to test if and how they were using pandemic-related strategies of persuasion to achieve public compliance. The findings indicate that the coverage of the key communicators during the first three months of the pandemic was overwhelmingly positive. Moreover, in the early stages of the pandemic none of the examined news sites was really pushing issues or angles that questioned pandemic-related policies or actions of the Headquarters. Examination of the rhetoric of the key coronavirus communicators has established that they have embraced persuasive strategies that are typical of pandemic communication, most notably the use of fear appeals, military metaphors and insistence on messages of 'togetherness' and conversely, 'pandemic shaming'. The article concludes that professional credibility and favorable media representation of Croatian coronavirus envoys, along with adopted persuasive strategies, have probably encouraged people to trust their decisions and comply with restrictive measures that have suspended their freedoms and changed their life routines almost overnight.
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ABBAS, GHULAM. "Bandwidth Price Estimation for Scalable and Responsive Rate Control." Journal of Interconnection Networks 16, no. 03n04 (September 2016): 1650005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219265916500055.
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This paper concerns the analysis of important algorithmic attributes, namely, the rate of convergence and scalability, and their impact on Network Utility Maximization (NUM). The contribution of the paper is a novel distributed rate control mechanism with strong convergence and scalability properties. The proposed algorithm employs a distinctive distributed framework, where rate control is derived as a Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) mechanism incorporated with interior-point and trust-region methods. The NUM problem is solved by a barrier method that penalizes any violation of constraints. Lagrangian is applied to the barrier objective function, where multipliers are estimated using Least-square method to iteratively solve the quadratic approximation of the Lagrangian function at the current point to generate a search direction. The uniqueness of the algorithm is that it allows sources to estimate bandwidth prices and thereby enforces a scalable network core by pushing algorithmic complexity to the edges. The fast convergence of the algorithm, in turn, improves the responsiveness of rate control and enables reduced buffer occupancy. The convergence of the proposed algorithm is proved theoretically and is evaluated via simulations. The results demonstrate reasonable reduction of computation-time in tracking the optimal rates and validate the strong convergence properties of the proposed algorithm.
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Wang, Xudong, Changming Hu, Jing Liang, Juan Wang, and Siyuan Dong. "A Study of the Factors Influencing the Construction Risk of Steel Truss Bridges Based on the Improved DEMATEL–ISM." Buildings 13, no. 12 (December 7, 2023): 3041. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13123041.
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To enhance the safety management of steel-truss-bridge construction, an evaluation method based on the improved DEMATEL–ISM was proposed to analyze the risk factors involved in such construction. Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) is a method for systematic factor analysis that utilizes graph-theory and -matrix tools, allowing for the assessment of the existence and strength of relationships between elements by analyzing the logical and direct impact relationships among various elements in a system. The distinctive feature of Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) is the decomposing of complex systems into several subsystems (elements) and constructing the system into a multi-level hierarchical structural model through algebraic operations. Specifically, triangular fuzzy numbers are introduced initially to improve the direct influence matrix in the DEMATEL method, thereby reducing the subjectivity of expert evaluations. The degree of influence, influenced degree, centrality degree, and causality degree of each influencing factor are determined and ranked based on the above analysis. In response to the characteristics of top-push construction, 20 key factors were selected from four aspects: “human, material, environment, and management”. The top five identified influencing factors are displacement during pushing (X10), safety-management qualification (X18), local buckling (X14), overturning of steel beams (X13), and collision with bridge piers during guide beam installation (X7). Subsequently, corresponding solutions were proposed for different influencing factors. The results of the study offer targeted measures to enhance the safety management of steel truss bridge construction and provide a reference for accident prevention.
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B.K., Dhanya, and Dr Velmurugan V.P. "Satisfaction Level of Customers in Demographic Variables in Public Sector Banks." Webology 19, no. 1 (January 20, 2022): 1017–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.14704/web/v19i1/web19070.
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The aim of our study is to look at the impact of various demographic parameters on Internet banking service excellence, client value, fulfillment, and trust. Increased competition and the emergence of financial liberalization-driven technology are pushing significant changes in the way Indian banks operate and provide services to their consumers. Banks are rapidly going into a new era of fantastic technological banking in order to ensure functional excellence and improved consumer loyalty. Because using technology to provide banking services costs money and time, it's vital to assess whether technological advancements genuinely improve client satisfaction. The aim of our study is to look at the effect of demographic factors on several determinants of consumer satisfaction in the Indian banking industry, as well as their relationship to service quality, value, and overall performance in electronic banking. In Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India, a customer survey (N=290) of Indian public sector banks such as UDC Bank, Indian Bank, and Indian Overseas Bank gathered the required data. According to the data, consumers with a higher level of education and revenue who utilize Internet banking for a large portion of their financial requirements and have done so for a longer period appear to have a higher level of satisfaction. Customers' evaluations of the efficiency, value, satisfaction, and loyalty component of internet banking service were used to determine gender and age.
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Han, Jun, Pengcheng Zhu, Li Tao, Gaojie Chen, Shuai Zhang, and Xiaoqiang Yang. "An optimum design method for a new deployable mechanism in scissors bridge." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 233, no. 19-20 (August 25, 2019): 6953–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954406219869046.
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In order to solve the existing problems of driving cylinder failures of a new deployable mechanism of scissors bridge in the process of an engineering prototype test, a multiobjective optimal model was proposed. The minimum cylinder pushing force and pulling force are taken as the optimization objective. The location of hinge points is taken as variables. Considering the unfolding of the scissor bridge as a quasi-static process, the kinematics model and statics model of the deployable mechanism were constructed using Denavit–Hatenberg homogeneous transformed matrix and mechanics equilibrium conditions, respectively. The proposed optimization strategy was employed based on Pareto optimum, and Pareto frontier was obtained by varying weight coefficient of multiobjective within interval around the required value. Using the trust region algorithm to solve optimization model, a reasonable solution was chosen from Pareto frontier. The results showed that the force conditions of the hydraulic cylinder, key hinge points and linkage in the deployable mechanism were significantly improved through a comparative study between initial design and optimized design for the engineering prototype. The research has shown that the optimization method has quick convergence speed and steady performance. The correctness of the optimal model and mechanics model was proved by ADAMS simulation. This passage provides new ideas and solutions for the force optimization of deployable mechanism of engineering prototype.
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Francia, Alberto, Stefano Mariani, Giuseppe Adduce, Sandro Vecchiarelli, and Franco Zambonelli. "Digital Management of Competencies in Web 3.0: The C-Box® Approach." Future Internet 15, no. 11 (October 26, 2023): 350. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi15110350.
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Management of competencies is a crucial concern for both learners and workers as well as for training institutions and companies. For the former, it allows users to track and certify the acquired skills to apply for positions; for the latter, it enables better organisation of business processes. However, currently, most software systems for competency management adopted by the industry are either organisation-centric or centralised: that is, they either lock-in students and employees wishing to export their competencies elsewhere, or they require users’ trust and for users to give up privacy (to store their personal data) while being prone to faults. In this paper, we propose a user-centric, fully decentralised competency management system enabling verifiable, secure, and robust management of competencies digitalised as Open Badges via notarization on a public blockchain. This way, whoever acquires the competence or achievement retains full control over it and can disclose his/her own digital certifications only when needed and to the extent required, migrate them across storage platforms, and let anyone verify the integrity and validity of such certifications independently of any centralised organisation. The proposed solution is based on C-Box®, an existing application for the management of digital competencies that has been improved to fully support models, standards, and technologies of the so-called Web 3.0 vision—a global effort by major web organisations to “give the web back to the people”, pushing for maximum decentralisation of control and user-centric data ownership.
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D. Colaljo, Zeaute Claire, and Jose F. Cuevas Jr. "Uncovering The Stories of Repeaters in Criminologists’ Licensure Examination: A Phenomenological Study." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. V (2024): 1741–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.805128.
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The licensure examination is essential for many professionals as it validates their competency and expertise in their respective fields. This study investigated the experiences of repeaters in the Criminologist Licensure Examination. This study used the qualitative phenomenological research design, particularly Moustakas’ transcendental phenomenology approach. The participants of this study were the 12 repeaters of the criminologist licensure examination from one of the Private Higher Educational Institutions in Misamis Occidental. It uses purposive snowball sampling to identify the potential participants. An interview guide was used as the instrument of the study. Moustakas’ method of data analysis was used in analyzing the data gathered. Results yielded three themes: having negative and mixed emotions, with subthemes: being disappointed with oneself after knowing the result of the examination and the consequences of heedlessness and procrastination; embracing support, self-belief, and perseverance with subthemes: receiving support from family and friends, being prepared and believe in oneself, pushing oneself to continue and never-give-up; and being optimistic in life with subthemes: having trust in God and divine timing, and embracing change and personal growth. The repeaters’ failure in the board examination several times caused delays in achieving their goals in life, and they were unable to meet their desired job due to this failure. Therefore, the school and its administration need to plan for programs and activities in the department, like enhancement/enrichment programs, to address the challenges the examinees encounter in dealing with the board examinations.
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Shan, Shaonan, Xia Duan, Ying Zhang, Ting Ting Zhang, and Hui Li. "Research on Collaborative Governance of Smart Government Based on Blockchain Technology: An Evolutionary Approach." Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2021 (February 16, 2021): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6634386.
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Smart government is an important means of optimizing government management, improving the government decision-making capacity, and pushing forward the public service. When the smart government process applies, the dire straits of collaborative governance among the different participants could not be ignored usually caused by maximizing their profits. Based on the current research, this paper introduces the blockchain technology into the smart government system and establishes a smart government platform architecture. Meanwhile, to analyse the evolutionary and stable strategies of the three parties under the blockchain technology, the evolutionary game model including functional departments, local governments, and end users as the main players is established on account of the bounded rationality. By examining the “blockchain + government service” in Beijing with the systemic dynamics theory, this paper changes the influencing factors simulated by changing the parameter assignment, to determine the evolutionary stable equilibrium under different external conditions. The results show that local government supervision plays a leading role in the process of collaborative governance of smart government based on blockchain technology; meanwhile, effective cost control is a key factor affecting the evolutionary stability strategy (ESS). Besides, the “decentralized” structure, “distrust” architecture, and “precision” mechanism of the blockchain are verified for the effect of the evolution process. Among them, precision service and flat management improve the possibility of collaborative governance, but the impact of the trust mechanism is not obvious. Therefore, the collaborative governance model of smart government based on blockchain technology is loaded with far-reaching significance for promoting the modernization of China’s governance capacity and governance system.
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Omelchenko, Daria A., Svetlana G. Maximova, and Oksana E. Noyanzina. "SOCIAL SECURITY IN REGIONAL SOCIETIES OF THE RUSSIAN BORDERLAND: INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS." Society and Security Insights 4, no. 3 (November 1, 2021): 13–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14258/ssi(2021)3-01.
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Social security in Russian regions is determined by a complex of global and all-Russian threats and unique local dangers and risks arising from the peculiarities of geographic, social, economic and socio-cultural development, historically developed features of social interactions of members of the regional community. Border regions as buffer zones between economic, political and cultural boundaries, have their own characteristics relevant to examine in the context of modernization of the Russian society, and needed to develop a differentiated approach in the regulation of regional development. Based on the results of a complex scientific research, including psychosemantic experiments and sociological surveys in six border regions of Russia, the authors analyze the peculiarities of perception of actual risks and threats and their main dimensions, evaluate security conditions, present models of individual and institutional factors of social security, among which the key the role is played by socio-demographic factors, the level of material well-being and human capital, as well as generalized and institutional social trust. The authors conclude that there is a close relationship between the level of social security and social differentiation of the regional society, uneven distribution of risks and threats, and significant differences in the possession of resources (material and non-material) to overcome them both at the individual and regional levels. The unsatisfactory situation with the provision of social security in a broad sense leads to an increase in the dissatisfaction of the population and contributes to the "pushing" of the most active part of it from the regional spaces.
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Baltaci, Furkan, and İhsan Kurar. "COVID-19: Determining the changing motivations of international second home tourists in coastal Turkey." Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic, SASA 72, no. 2 (2022): 175–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2202175b.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought dramatic changes in all the areas of life, and has inflicted many societal costs. The negativities in the field of health and economy are the prominent ones. The whole process significantly affected human behavior, preferences, and priorities. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of COVID-19 on the motivations of international second home tourists (ISHOT). In addition, motivations for buying or renting a second home in the pre-pandemic period, the push and pull factors affecting their decision to stay in a destination, and the emotional experience they had during the pandemic were also interpreted in the study. Qualitative data research method was used with semistructured interview forms. In-depth interviews were conducted with 26 ISHOTs living in Alanya, coastal Turkey. The results proved that there were significant differences between pre-pandemic and postpandemic motivations of ISHOTs for second homes. In the pre-pandemic period, increasing the quality of life, being happy, providing mental health and well-being, emotional relaxation, and getting away from stress were in the frame among the reasons that pushed ISHOTs to acquire second homes. During the pandemic, it was determined that these motivations were replaced by feelings such as anxiety, complaint, protection instinct, uncertainty, and a trust pledge. Low risk, information provision, hygiene, and health system were important reasons that pulled ISHOTs to their second homes during the pandemic process. Insecurity, late intervention, the health system, the risk of being infected, and inadequate precautions were the reasons pushing them away from their home countries.