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Consensus thresholds play a significant role in consensus checking and reaching in group decision-making problems. The existing studies contribute very few guidelines and leave... -
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In this article we present an analysis of the concepts of fenxiang and gongxiang – the Mandarin words for ‘sharing’– in the context of Chinese social media. We do so through an... -
Proattitudinal versus counterattitudinal messages: Message discrepancy, react...
A boomerang effect involves the movement of a message recipient's belief, attitude, or behavior in a direction contrary to the advocated position in the message. There has been... -
Effectiveness of PhET Simulations and YouTube Videos to Improve the Learning ...
Effective teaching of physics requires the use of well-designed and diversified instructional tools such as multimedia throughout the teaching and learning process. The main... -
Operational decisions and financing strategies in a capital-constrained close...
This paper aims to find operational decisions and financing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) consisting of a financially constrained manufacturer and a retailer.... -
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The paper studies the determinants of air connectivity in European regions. It takes into account the spatial effects among regions, the different regional characteristics in... -
A minimalistic approach for evapotranspiration estimation using the Prophet m...
This study aimed to evaluate the potential of the recently introduced Prophet model for estimating reference evapotranspiration (ETo). A comparative study was conducted for... -
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This paper provides insights into trademark activity at the regional level via two objectives. First, it examines the relationship between technological capabilities and new... -
Learning democracy digitally? The internet and knowledge of democracy in nond...
The study of public opinion in nondemocratic states has found that people often say they support democracy, yet they show little demand for democratization or regime change.... -
Textual analysis and corporate bankruptcy: A financial dictionary-based senti...
Current works in textual analysis for the financial reports are trying to quantify textual data as meaningful predictors for the future financial performance or stock returns.... -
Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry
While existing studies have mapped out various networks with some visualization techniques, we move one step forward by examining if city/firm performance is dependent not only... -
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Freight trains between Europe and China (China Railway Express) are a central component of the Belt and Road Initiative. In recent years, the service has experienced significant... -
Community participation in affordable housing provision in developing cities:...
Studies showed that rapid urbanization creates encumbrance for affordable housing in many developing world cities. Community participation has been proved as a successful... -
Intelligent decision-support system to plan, manage and optimize water qualit...
This paper presents the conceptual framework of a holistic, intelligent decision-support system (IDSS) to plan, manage and optimize water quality monitoring programs (WQMPs) for... -
Healthcare workers’ perspectives on participatory system dynamics modelling a...
With increasingly complex safety-critical systems like healthcare being developed and managed, there is a need for a tool that permits decision-makers to better understand the... -
Factors affecting the implementation of simulation modelling in healthcare: A...
Simulation modelling is becoming an increasingly popular tool in healthcare management, however published evaluations of simulation modelling are rare. This study therefore... -
A spatiotemporal structural graph for characterizing land cover changes
Characterizing landscape patterns and revealing their underlying processes are critical for studying climate change and environmental problems. Previous methods for mapping land... -
An adaptive two-stage dual metamodeling approach for stochastic simulation ex...
In this paper we propose an adaptive two-stage dual metamodeling approach for stochastic simulation experiments, aiming at exploiting the benefits of fitting the mean and... -
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In this article we examine the differences between weekly and daily time cycles in the nineteenth-century Hebrew newspaper HaTzfira. This newspaper changed its publication... -
Characterizing traveling fans: a workflow for event-oriented travel pattern a...
Characterizing event attendees’ travel patterns is key to understanding the dynamics of social events in cities. However, the scientific investigation of event travel patterns...