35 Result(s)
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Correction to: When a Phenomenon-Based University Course Went Online: Students’ Experiences and Reflections After Sauna Bathing
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Research on Man–Machine Contact Force/Position Perception of Wheelchair-Stretcher Robot Based on the Flexible Pressure Sensor
Aiming at solving the problem of traditional intelligent wheelchair-stretcher robot perception, this paper adopts the flexible pressure sensor to measure the contact pressure between the trunk and the robot an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
End to End Unsupervised Learning-Based Endoscopic View Expansion
Endoscopic view limitation is a common issue in clinical surgery. This study proposes an end-to-end unsupervised deep learning network for endoscopic view expansion to address this issue. The network includes ...
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Post-pandemic Workplace Practices and Their Impact on the Work-Life Experiences of Global Virtual Teams: Insights from the Asia–Pacific Region
The progression of virtual work has been delineated by technological advancements and global interconnectivity through three historical waves. With an accelerated pace and magnitude of digital transformation, ...
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When a Phenomenon-Based University Course Went Online: Students’ Experiences and Reflections After Sauna Bathing
This chapter presents and discusses results from data in form of learning diaries that a group of Finnish students wrote on a distance university course arranged during the COVID-19 lockdown. Initially, the co...
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Conclusion
GVTs are growing in importance and popularity as they maintain the increasingly globalized social and economic infrastructure while offering various benefits for companies and employees alike. The employment o...
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Introduction
Within the past decade (global), virtual teams have become integral to organizations in all sectors. This trend has been further accelerated since the emergence of the global COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. E...
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Understanding Global Virtual Teams and Leadership
The following section elaborates a working definition of the research object of global virtual teams (GVTs) and global virtual leadership (GVL). GVT research does not offer a comprehensive and agreed-on defini...
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Bringing in Trust into Global Virtual Leadership
The objective of chapter 3 is to merge current GVT literature from the previous chapter 2 with business ethical concepts regarding trust, GVTs, and GVL. Chapter 3 is structured based on the heuristical tool of...
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Interview Methods in Construction and Demolition Research: Based on Case Study and Recommended Best Practices
Interview holds a prominent place among qualitative research methods, and it has been widely used in construction and demolition waste management research. Based on the literature review of interview-based rel...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Love Consumption at the Digital Age: Online Consumer Review and Romantic Gift Giving: An Abstract
China is the biggest e-commerce market and a trend leader in the global marketplace. This study focuses on understanding romantic gift-giving and online consumer reviews and how they impact consumers purchase ...
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Pricing Strategy of Manufacturer Supply Chain Based on the Product Green Degree
Based on the influence of product green degree and green product price on the market demand of products, this paper develops a pricing strategy for Cournot competition between manufacturers in a supply chain s...
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High-Speed Railway in Yunnan Province: The Impacts of High-Speed Railway on Urban Economic Development
In recent years, the rapid development of China’s high-speed railway has brought great impact on regional economic development. This paper evaluates the impact of Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway on the eco...
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Succession Planning Research in the Educational Sector
The chapter contains a rationale for kindergarten through higher education (K12–HE) succession planning research to be grouped in one educational framework, PREPGO (Planning, Recruiting, Empowering, Preparing,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Local Neighborhood Constraint Method for SIFT Features Matching
For improving the accuracy of the SIFT matching algorithm with low time cost, this paper proposes a novel matching algorithm which is based on local neighborhood constraints, that is, SIFT matching feature is ...
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Influencing Factors in Customers’ Intention to Re-visit Resort Hotels: The Roles of Customer Experience Management and Customer Value
Tourism is one of the sectors that contribute to a country’s economy. Creative tourist activities form part of the strategy to increase public interest in this industry. The tourism sector is related to the ho...
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Study on Impact Factor of Quality of Life Among Adult After the Lushan Earthquake
QOL is one of the indicators the physical and mental health status, therefore, exploring relationship between QOL and other variables is very significant to improve post-disaster physiological and psycholo...
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The Research of Competitiveness Evaluation Indicators on Chinese OTA Websites Based on OWA and Intuition Fuzzy Theory
With the popularization of the Internet, Online Travel Agent (OTA) market is rapidly and has the focus tourism due to the increasingly fierce in the market. Applying Porter’s five forces model, this ...
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Managing Crisis Overseas: An Explorative Analysis of Apple’s Warranty Crisis Communication in China
Guanxi, is defined as “durable social connections and networks a firm uses to exchange favors for organizational purpose” (Gu et al. 2008). Although guanxi has been found the dominant...
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The Selling Power of Customer-Generated Product Reviews: the Matching Effect Between Consumers’ Cognitive Needs and Persuasive Message Types
A 2007 survey reported that one in three Internet users make purchase decisions influenced by sites with social contents (Wasserman 2007), social networking websites such as Facebook.com. Although Amazon.com i...
