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Social media is revolutionizing the way firms manage their brands. A broad variety of platforms provide businesses an opportunity to engage in bidirectional dialogue with their customers, the effect of...
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In many navigational domains the traversability of cells is conditioned on the path taken. This is often the case in videogames, in which a character may need to acquire a certain object (i.e., a key...
View ArticleSeismic resilience of retrofitted reinforced concrete buildings
The fundamentals of the seismic resilience and evaluation method are presented. The evaluation is based on a non-dimensional analytical function for loss variation and a linear recovery function for a...
View ArticleA multi-indices based method to comparing and ranking fuzzy numbers in fuzzy...
In this paper we present a multi-indices based method that can be used to compare and rank fuzzy numbers in decision making under uncertainty. The concepts of Euclidean distance and fuzzy maximum are...
View ArticleParental Role Models' Influence on Female Students' Entrepreneurial...
This paper discusses the extent to which parental role models influence female students' aspirations to venture creation. Empirical research of 76 University of Botswana female students and a focus...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship Education: An Evaluation of Behaviour, Skills and Attributes...
This paper discusses findings of the evaluation of the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) program in Botswana, a United Nations program aimed at developing entrepreneurial skills in developing...
View ArticleA novel metric for opportunistic routing in heterogenous duty-cycled wireless...
This paper investigates the suboptimal problem of existing state-of-the-art routing protocols when they are applied to heterogeneous duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In particular, we...
View ArticleGender based bias in performance assessment - A study of supervisor...
Attitudes and values are integral to a nation's culture and, along with other cultural features, distinguish societies from each. The relationship between each gender in the family, society and the...
View ArticleDetecting H2S oscillatory response using surface plasmon spectroscopy
The oscillatory change in the optical absorbance of NiO-TiO2 film containing Au nanoparticles in the presence of H2S gas are investigated. The oscillatory phenomena could be monitored by looking at the...
View ArticleAu and NiO nanoparticles dispersed inside porous SiO2 solgel film:...
The favorable lattice matching between Au and NiO crystals made possible the growth of unique cookie-like nanoparticles (25 nm mean diameter) inside a porous SiO2 film after annealing at 700 °C. The...
View ArticleBiological activated carbon treatment of a highly saline ro concentrate from...
Reverse osmosis (RO) concentrate (ROC) streams generated from RO-based municipal wastewater reclamation processes contain high concentrations of organic compounds and nutrients (N & P). The waste...
View ArticleSpectroscopic ellipsometry analyses of thin films in different environments:...
An innovative ellipsometer sample holder has been designed and tested in order to measure thin films optical properties under different environments and so infer the porosity through effective medium...
View ArticleThree enactments of drugs in Danish prison drug treatment: Illegal drugs,...
Drugs are an increasingly salient concern in many European prisons. Drug policies are made, drugs are controlled, used and prescribed and drug use is treated and sanctioned. In light of the growing...
View ArticleMultinational corporations' role in developing Vietnam's public relations...
The paper argues that multinational corporations (MNCs) are best placed to progress public relations (PR) practice in Vietnam through significantly expanding their corporate social responsibility (CSR)...
View ArticleIn vivo caprine model for osteomyelitis and evaluation of biofilm-resistant...
Bone infection remains a formidable challenge to the medical field. The goal of the current study is to evaluate antibacterial coatings in vitro and to develop a large animal model to assess coated...
View ArticleCoping as a mediator between negative life events and eudaimonic well-being...
Further understanding surrounding the process of adolescent resilience is required. With a sample of 173 female adolescents aged between 13 and 15 years (M = 13.98, SD = 0.39), this study explored...
View ArticleBeyond the trade-off and cumulative capabilities models: Alternative models...
Organisations are expected to develop sound strategies relating to their core operations capabilities of cost efficiency, quality, delivery, flexibility and innovation, to gain and maintain competitive...
View ArticleSiO2 mesoporous thin films containing Ag and NiO nanoparticles synthesized...
SiO 2 sol-gel mesoporous thin films containing NiO nanoparticles have been synthesized and successively impregnated with Ag ions. A subsequent thermal treatment induces the precipitation of Ag...
View ArticleMeasurement-based modelling of power consumption at wireless access network...
Improving the energy efficiency of the ICT sector is becoming an ambitious challenge for industries and research communities alike. Understanding how the energy is consumed in each part of an ICT...
View ArticleA macroalgal germling bioassay to assess biocide concentrations in marine waters
A bioassay method using the early life stages (germlings) of macroalgae was developed to detect toxicity of anti-fouling paint biocides. A laboratory based bioassay using Ulva intestinalis and Fucus...
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