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Influencing Factors on Intention And Adoption of KBZ Credit Card (Aung Pyae Sone,2023)
Full text linkThe study aims to identify the influencing factors on the intention and adoption of KBZ credit card usage among customers. The study used both descriptive and quantitative research methods. Primary data as well as secondary data are used in this study. A sample of 300 active KBZ credit cardholders were selected by using simple random sampling method. They were interviewed with structured questionnaire. This study explored the five factors which are perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, knowledge on credit card, facilitating conditions, and perceived trust on payment requirements. According to the regression analysis, the results revealed that three factors which were perceived usefulness, facilitating conditions of credit cards, and perceived trust in payment requirements had significantly influence on users' intention to use KBZ credit cards. Moreover, the intention to use KBZ credit card also had a significant influence on adoption of KBZ credit card. KBZ Bank should address the accessibility issues that customers perceive with respect to credit card adoption including offering of user-friendly educational resources and features to help new users better understand credit card usage and management. Moreover, providing education on the advantages of using KBZ credit cards over social or cultural pressures to use them could help to increase customer adoption
Open-source Mobility Platform for Children with Disabilities
No full textPowered wheelchairs are integral to the development of children with disabilities. However, commercial wheelchairs are very expensive, typically costing over $10,000, to be widely incorporated into physical therapy and rehabilitation programs. In 2017-18, two Union seniors designed a low-cost power mobility device (Version 1.0) by retrofitting a Fisher-Price children toy called the Wild Thing. This device was delivered to The Kevin G. Langan School in the spring of 2018. This senior capstone design project improves Version 1.0 to create Version 2.0 and addresses challenges in the field of assistive technologies.
The challenges in the field of assistive technologies lies in the need to customize hardware and/or software on each device for children with different motor skills. Current DIY assistive wheelchairs are not easily replicable and self-diagnosable upon system malfunctions. Poor hardware and software design documentation makes maintenance difficult.
To address these challenges, this senior capstone design project transforms a one-time project into an easily replicable open-source product. For Version 2.0 to be accessible to anyone who may wish to replicate the device, a public website (https://muse.union.edu/umobility) was built as dedicated resource hub. On this site, users are able to access the construction manual of both the control system as well as the seating structure of Version 2.0
Mobile landmark recognition for information retrieval
No full textThe final year project report aims to cover the theoretical background of the existing recognition techniques, different components for recognition process and performance analysis of different combination of feature detection technique to use in Mobile Landmark Recognition application.
Content-based image retrieval has been researched upon with techniques ranging from image feature extraction, representation, indexing. Bag-of-Words framework is used in the project where each image is modeled as a collection of features plotted over a histogram. A database with 50 categories containing a total of 4000+ images is used to train and test the system. This database was built with image recognition in mind so as to ensure that it is able to simulate the real scenario where users capture image using their smartphones. Two feature detection methods and two different resolutions were used. Two feature detection methods were dense sampling based and keypoint detection based approach. 640 x 480 and 320 x 240 resolutions were used in the project. Hierarchical k-means approach is used in clustering and scalable vocabulary tree is used in machine learning.
In summary, it is proven that using dense sampling based approach performed better than keypoint detection based approach. Even reducing the resolution still gives the best result for dense sampling.Bachelor of Engineerin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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