scholarly journals A Visualization Template for the Graphical Representation of Sport Injury Antecedents and Consequences Models and Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Britton W. Brewer ◽  
Travis P. Van Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Sport Injury ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

A template for visually representing factors affecting and affected by the occurrence of sport injury is presented. The visualization template is designed to facilitate comparison among graphic depictions of models and data pertaining to the antecedents and consequences of sport injury. Innovative aspects and limitations of the visualization template are highlighted, and future applications of the visualization template are discussed.

scholarly journals Effect of Short Fiber Reinforcements on Fracture Performance of Cement-Based Materials: A Systematic Review Approach

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1745
Author(s):  
Waqas Ahmad ◽  
Mehran Khan ◽  
Piotr Smarzewski
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Short Fiber ◽  
Research Trend ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Fracture Properties ◽  
Cement Based Materials ◽  
Relevant Publication

Fracture characteristics were used to effectively evaluate the performance of fiber-reinforced cementitious composites. The fracture parameters provided the basis for crack stability analysis, service performance, safety evaluation, and protection. Much research has been carried out in the proposed study field over the previous two decades. Therefore, it was required to analyze the research trend from the available bibliometric data. In this study, the scientometric analysis and science mapping techniques were performed along with a comprehensive discussion to identify the relevant publication field, highly used keywords, most active authors, most cited articles, and regions with largest impact on the field of fracture properties of cement-based materials (CBMs). Furthermore, the characteristic of various fibers such as steel, polymeric, inorganic, and carbon fibers are discussed, and the factors affecting the fracture properties of fiber-reinforced CBMs (FRCBMs) are reviewed. In addition, future gaps are identified. The graphical representation based on the scientometric review could be helpful for research scholars from different countries in developing research cooperation, creating joint ventures, and exchanging innovative technologies and ideas.

scholarly journals Estimation of Electricity Generation by an Electro-Technical Complex with Photoelectric Panels Using Statistical Methods

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1278
Author(s):  
Anna Turysheva ◽  
Irina Voytyuk ◽  
Daniel Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Random Distribution ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Random Variable ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Characteristic Energy ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Solar Systems ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Technical Complex

This paper presents a computational tool for estimating energy generated by low-power photovoltaic systems based on the specific conditions of the study region since the characteristic energy equation can be obtained considering the main climatological factors affecting these systems in terms of the symmetry or skewness of the random distribution of the generated energy. Furthermore, this paper is aimed at determining any correlation that exists between meteorological variables with respect to the energy generated by 5-kW solar systems in the specific climatic conditions of the Republic of Cuba. The paper also presents the results of the influence of each climate factor on the distribution symmetry of the generated energy of the solar system. Studying symmetry in statistical models is important because they allow us to establish the degree of symmetry (or skewness), which is the probability distribution of a random variable, without having to make a graphical representation of it. Statistical skewness reports the degree to which observations are distributed evenly and proportionally above and below the center (highest) point of the distribution. In the case when the mentioned distribution is balanced, it is called symmetric.

The role of key online reviews in affecting online hotel booking: an empirical investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Zhang ◽  
Pengkun Wu ◽  
Chong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Hotel Managers ◽  
Hotel Booking

Purpose The importance of online reviews on online hotel booking has been widely acknowledged. However, not all online reviews affect consumers equally. Compared with common online reviews, key online reviews (KORs) have a greater influence on consumers' decisions and online hotel booking. This study takes the first step to investigate the factors affecting the identification of KORs and the role of KORs in online hotel booking.Design/methodology/approach To test the research hypotheses, this study develops a crawler to obtain 551,600 online reviews of 650 hotels in ten representative large cities in China. This study first uses a binary logistic regression to identify KORs by combining review content quality and reviewer characteristics and then uses a log-regression model to investigate the role of KORs in online hotel booking.Findings This study mined the factors affecting the identification of KORs by analyzing review contents and reviewer characteristics. Our results revealed that KORs play a mediating role in the effects of review content and reviewer characteristics on online hotel booking.Originality/value This study focuses on KORs, which have received limited attention in research but are important to practitioners. Specifically, this study investigates the antecedents and consequences of KORs. Our results enable hotel managers to manage online reviews effectively, particularly KORs.

scholarly journals Respecting the privacy of hospitalized patients: An integrative review

2018 ◽  
pp. 096973301875983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tayebeh Hasan Tehrani ◽  
Sadat Seyed Bagher Maddah ◽  
Masoud Fallahi-Khoshknab ◽  
Abbas Ebadi ◽  
Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulaghi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Hospitalized Patients ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Patient Privacy ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Conventional Content Analysis ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Rehabilitation Sciences ◽  
The University

Background: Privacy is a complicated and obscure concept, which has special meanings in the healthcare environment; therefore, it is essential for healthcare providers to fully understand this concept. However, there is no universally accepted definition for this concept in the texts, and it has been interpreted differently, based on its application. Aim: To analyze and provide a clear and scientific definition for respect of privacy of hospitalized patients and identify the common aspects of this concept. Research design: This study was conducted using the Whittemore and Knafl’s modified framework as a conceptual analysis method. Ethical consideration: This study was approved by the Research Council of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences. We have respected the ethical requirements required regarding the sources and authorship. Research context and data sources: Using integrative review, a search was performed using national and international databases, including CINAHL, Scopus, Medline, Web of Science, and ISI (with no date restriction). The keywords employed during the search process were “privacy of patients,” “confidentiality,” “and patients’ rights.” In total, 1345 articles were retrieved from the databases. After the elimination of repetitive studies and with regard to the study objectives, 124 articles, 3 books, and 4 theses were entered into the study. The data were analyzed using the conventional content analysis approach. Findings: The results were extracted in the form of four, seven, and two themes related to attributes such as physical, informational, social, and psychological and the antecedents and consequences of respecting patient privacy, respectively. Conclusion: Respect for hospitalized patient privacy contains multiple dimensions. Factors affecting the achievement of this concept include individual backgrounds, nature of the disease, and rule of paternalism. The fulfillment of patient privacy leads to such consequences as protection and improvement of human dignity as well as improved communication between the patient and the health team.

Probabilistic analysis of factors affecting highway construction costs: a belief network approach

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nii O Attoh-Okine
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Models ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Highway Construction ◽  
Construction Cost ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Cost Models ◽  
Belief Networks ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Graph Theoretic

This paper presents the application of belief networks to make inferences in highway construction costs. The methodology is evolving; it works very well when sufficient information and incomplete quantitative data are available. It is an attempt to identify the extent of influence of selected variables on highway construction costs. Belief networks are an expressive graphical language for representing uncertain knowledge about causal and associational relations among construction cost variables. This then provides a graphical representation of probabilistic construction cost models. The graph-theoretic framework of the belief lends itself for modeling probabilistic dependence and flow information between different construction costs and related variables in overall highway construction cost determination.Key words: construction costs, belief networks, graphical models, uncertainty, and Bayesian network.

scholarly journals The Role of Information Technology Mindfulness in the Postadoption Stage of Using Personal Health Devices: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study in Mobile Health (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pouyan Esmaeilzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Personal Fitness ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND Although personal health devices (for example, smartwatches, fitness trackers and intelligent bracelets) offer great potential to monitor personal fitness and health parameters, many users discontinue using them after a few months. Thus, it is critical to study the postadoption behaviors of current users to enhance their engagement with personal health devices and use behaviors. However, there is little empirical research on the factors affecting users’ engagement in beneficial use behaviors. Mindfulness and identity are not new topics, but the applications of these concepts in the field of information systems are emerging themes. Information technology (IT) mindfulness has been conceptualized in previous studies; however, little is known about the antecedents and consequences of IT mindfulness in the mobile health (mHealth) context. OBJECTIVE The main aim of this study is to explore both IT identity and IT mindfulness to develop a new ground for research in the domain of mHealth postadoption. Thus, we aim to explain why users should be fully mindful of their engagement with PHDs and what could be the consequences and implications. METHODS This study proposes that IT mindfulness can play an important role in improving the use behaviors of users. Through a web-based survey with 450 current users of a personal health device, this paper tests the relationship between IT identity and IT mindfulness in the postadoption stage of using personal health devices. RESULTS We found that IT identity significantly shapes IT mindfulness associated with PHDs. Moreover, the IT identity–IT mindfulness relationship is negatively moderated by individuals’ perceived health status (<i>P</i>=.003). Finally, the results of this study show that IT mindfulness can significantly predict automatic use behaviors (eg, continued intention to use), active use behaviors (eg, feature use and enhanced use behaviors), and commitment behaviors in using personal health devices (eg, positive word-of-mouth intention). CONCLUSIONS The findings of this study provide implications for both research and practice. This study can contribute to our current understanding of IT mindfulness by developing and empirically testing a research model that explains the determinants and outcomes of the IT mindfulness construct in the context of personal health devices. The results imply that IT mindfulness significantly helps individuals express their alertness, awareness, openness, and orientation in the present in their postadoption interactions with smart devices used for health care purposes. Finally, our findings may assist practitioners and IT developers in designing mindfulness-supporting PHDs. Owing to the impact of IT mindfulness on postadoption behaviors, its 4 dimensions could be used for developing PHD technologies. Moreover, PHD developers may need to direct their efforts toward increasing IT mindfulness by reinforcing IT identity to serve and retain a wide range of target users.

scholarly journals Intra-corporate plagiarism? Conceptualising antecedents and consequences of negatively perceived mobility of ideas

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frithjof Arp ◽  
Michał K. Lemański
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Defensive Strategies ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Statistical Validity ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine and reflect on the mobility of ideas between multinational corporation (MNC) headquarters and subsidiaries. Does it always represent (positively perceived) knowledge transfer or can it sometimes constitute (negatively perceived) intra-corporate plagiarism? What are antecedents and consequences of negatively perceived mobility of ideas? Design/methodology/approach The authors conceptualise inter-unit knowledge transfer in MNCs without recognition of originators as an act of intra-corporate plagiarism. The conceptualisation is informed by theoretical perspectives in the literature and indicative data emerging unexpectedly from a study designed to examine knowledge transfer in MNCs. These illustrate the concept, point to factors affecting the propensity to plagiarise, and provide preliminary insight on both negative and positive consequences. Aiming to build theory, the authors offer propositions for further research. Findings The conceptualisation suggests that adopting units lose access to the original sources of ideas as plagiarism victims may establish defensive strategies. Originators of ideas may experience loss of trust, be unsupportive of implementation and erect barriers to future mobility. There is risk of reputation loss and rejection of ideas and practices from other units. However, the conceptualisation also suggests that, ironically and counterintuitively, plagiarism may increase the mobility of ideas within MNCs. Research limitations/implications The authors do not test hypotheses and make no claims from the data about statistical validity or prevalence of the phenomenon. As the emergent data are not longitudinal, and specific to human resource management practices, the authors cannot empirically establish all antecedents and consequences of intra-corporate plagiarism. Hence, the theorisations primarily rely on perspectives in the literature. The study merely offers the theoretical conceptualisation of the phenomenon and propositions for future research. Practical implications Drawing on theoretical perspectives in the literature at the country level (ethnocentrism, dominance effects, legitimacy, capability) and organisation level (not-invented-here syndrome, micro-politics), the study indicates consequences that MNCs may wish to consider in their knowledge management. Originality/value The first contribution is the conceptualisation of inter-unit knowledge transfer in MNCs without recognition of originators as an act of intra-corporate plagiarism. Second, the authors point out that knowledge transfer directionality reported in other research may be based on intentional or unintentional misrepresentation. Third, the authors theorise intra-corporate plagiarism as potentially useful in mitigating ethnocentrism, country-of-origin dominance effects and perceptions about legitimacy and capability.

When Age, Religion, and Culture Matter

2018 ◽  
pp. 261-278
Author(s):  
Samer Sarofim ◽  
Ahmed Tolba
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
Major Factors

The ultimate objective of the chapter is to provide a conceptualized model to showcase the differential effect of aging, religiosity, and cultural differences on consumers' emotions. Further, the downstream consequences of these antecedents (aging, religiosity, and cultural differences) on consumers' actual behavior in the market place are to be demonstrated. The mediating role of emotions in explicating the relationship between the proposed antecedents and consequences will serve as an integral part of the model to illustrate the underlying mechanism. The introduced model will provide both marketers and academicians with a clear understanding of major factors affecting consumer behavior and, importantly, the emotional mechanisms through which these factors exert differential impact on actual consumption behaviors.

An Exploration of Athletes’ Views on Their Adherence to Physiotherapy Rehabilitation After Sport Injury

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Marshall ◽  
Maggie Donovan-Hall ◽  
Steve Ryall
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sport Injury ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Type Design ◽  
Physiotherapy Intervention ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Athletic Club

Objective:To explore athletes’ perceptions of the factors that they feel may affect their adherence to a physiotherapy intervention.Design:A qualitative design using semistructured interviews.Setting:Participants were interviewed at home or their athletic club.Participants:8 participants, 5 men and 3 women with a mean age of 30.4 y.Results:Thematic analysis revealed 2 main categories of themes. The first relates to the athlete’s perceptions of factors affecting his or her own adherence, with themes including the impact of injury, justification of adherence, and strategies used by the patient. The second relates to perceptions of the physiotherapist’s impact on adherence, with themes relating to characteristics of and strategies used by the physiotherapist.Conclusions:Findings demonstrate the importance of exploring patients’ perceptions of adherence. A number of factors that affect adherence are identified, and strategies that may enhance adherence suggested.

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