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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adaptive Recommendation Algorithm of English Reading Learning Resources Based on Collaborative Filtering
The rapid development of the Internet has promoted the emergence of a large number of English learning resources and online education platforms. However, the massive resources and learning methods have also le...
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The power of employee exchange belief: How psychological contract strength mediates the relationship of HR practice consistency and organizational commitment
This study examines the concept of the psychological contract strength deriving from an employee’s expectation of mutual exchange with regard to their employers’ obligation fulfillment. This study explores the...
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Open AccessThe new insights into autophagy in thyroid cancer progression
In recent decades, the incidence of thyroid cancer keeps growing at a shocking rate, which has aroused increasing concerns worldwide. Autophagy is a fundamental and ubiquitous biological event conserved in mam...
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Does organization-based self-esteem mediate the relationships between on-the-job embeddedness and job behaviors?
Based on cognitive consistency theory, this study developed a motivation mechanism linking on-the-job embeddedness to employees’ job behaviors. This mechanism was tested using a sample of 170 subordinate-super...
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Open AccessAngiotensin II receptor blockade is associated with preserved muscle strength in chronic hemodialysis patients
Sarcopenia, defined as low muscle mass and strength, is highly prevalent in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis (HD). However, muscle function and muscle mass do not share the same clinical relevance. In ...
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Morphology and optoelectronic characteristics of organic field-effect transistors based on blends of polylactic acid and poly(3-hexylthiophene)
This study investigates the influence of the solvent used to prepare films of a poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and poly(lactic acid) (PLA) blend on the morphology and charge transport mobility of field-effect t...
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A conceptual review of human resource management research and practice in Taiwan with comparison to select economies in East Asia
Human resources are increasingly crucial to the growing economies of East Asia, which are striving to diversify economically toward higher value-added product-markets to continue their growth. Human resource m...
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Implementing high performance HR practices in Asia: HR practice consistency, employee roles, and performance
High performance HR (human resources) practices are well understood to positively impact employee behavior and performance. However, much is still not known about the implementation of effective HR practices a...
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Multi-view fall detection based on spatio-temporal interest points
Many countries are experiencing a rapid increase in their elderly populations, increasing the demand for appropriate healthcare systems including fall-detection systems. In recent years, many fall-detection sy...
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Open AccessMortality among patients with schizophrenia and vocational rehabilitation program services under Taiwan’s psychiatric care reform
Vocational rehabilitation programs are implemented to enhance the occupational functioning of long-stay patients with schizophrenia. Unemployment is associated with a higher risk of death. Schizophrenia patien...
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Locating and recognizing multiple human actions by searching for maximum score subsequences
Despite the numerous methods to recognize human actions in a video, few are designed for videos containing more than one action over a certain time period. Moreover, existing multiple action recognition method...
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Logo detection with extendibility and discrimination
Logos are specially designed marks that identify goods, services, and organizations using distinguished characters, graphs, signals, and colors. Identifying logos can facilitate scene understanding, intelligen...
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Adaptive photograph retrieval method
Access to electronic books, electronic journals, and web portals, which may contain graphics (drawings or diagrams) and images, is now ubiquitous. However, users may have photographs that contain graphics or i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Human Action Recognition in Video Under Clutter and Moving Background
Behavior or action recognition in video sequences has becoming a more interesting and active research for computer vision. Applications of human action recognition, such as video retrieval, video surveillance ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Broadcast Soccer Video Analysis, Player Detection, and Tracking Based on Color Histogram
In this chapter, a broadcast soccer video analysis system is proposed for the detection and tracking of the players. Our method consists of two phases. The first one is the scene analysis phase which automatic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Scene Categorization with Class Extendibility and Effective Discriminative Ability
Most of the numerous studies of scene categorization assume a fixed number of classes, and none categorize images with efficient class extendibility while preserving discriminative ability. This capability is ...
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Arsenic exposure, urinary arsenic speciation, and the incidence of urothelial carcinoma: a twelve-year follow-up study
The risk of urothelial carcinoma (UC) and urinary arsenic speciation have been evaluated in a few case–control studies; however, the association has not been verified in a prospective cohort study. The aim of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intelligent Spot Detection for 2-DE Gel Image
In this study, a novel method for spot detection is proposed with the addition of confidence evaluation for each detected spot. The confidence of a spot will give useful hints for subsequent processing such as...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multiclass Microarray Data Classification Using GA/ANN Method
This work aims to explore the use of gene expression data in discriminating heterogeneous cancers. We introduce hybrid learning methodology that integrates genetic algorithms (GA) and artificial neural network...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Fast Method to Detect and Recognize Scaled and Skewed Road Signs
A fast method to detect and recognize scaled and skewed road signs is proposed in this paper. The input color image is first quantized in HSV color model. Border tracing those regions with the same colors as r...
