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How consumers decide to buy during the pandemic Covid-19?
No full textA pandemic is a deadly disease that threatens society by spreading complex diseases and eventually
spreads to other communities and areas. History shows that the world was once attacked by the flu
pandemic, also known as the Spanish Flu, in 1918. The Spanish Flu 1918 has killed hundreds of millions
of people over two years until the vaccine was found. Now, the world is shocked by a new pandemic
called Covid-19. This pandemic is believed to have started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and
has spread worldwide until today. Although the vaccines have been found and millions are already
vaccinated, most countries are still closing their borders and enforcing lockdowns to combat Covid-19
infections from spreading wide. Covid-19 has crippled most companies' economic activities, especially
small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and has significantly impacted consumer decision-making.
Covid-19 has radically changed the context in which we make purchasing decisions, disrupting many
deeply-rooted habits and preferences (Mledonova 2020)
Covid-19 and its impact on the Malaysian SMEs
No full textThe spread of the first Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China, shocked the whole world
at the end of 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this epidemic a global pandemic
for different countries worldwide on March 11, 2020 (Cucinotta & Vanellli, 2020). Due to this, many
countries limited the movement of their people and business activities, and large gatherings, including
schools, to effectively transmit the disease (Toda, 2020). On March 18, 2020, the Malaysian
government had also announced the Movement Control Order (MCO). People of the country were
instructed for a 'social distancing' to enable and resolve the spread of COVID-19
Marketing macro environment during the pandemic Covid-19
No full textWithout a doubt, COVID-19 is indeed a disease caused by a recently discovered coronavirus strain, a
form of a virus known to cause human respiratory infections. On January 24, 2020, the first case of
Malaysia with COVID-19 was detected. In Malaysia, the World Health Organization (WHO) worked
closely with the Ministry of Health to respond to this epidemic. Furthermore, according to the WHO
report, as of November 15, 2020, a total of 47,417 COVID-19 confirmed cases have occurred in
Malaysia. There have been 23 new deaths recorded in the past week. This brings to 309 the cumulative
number of COVID-19 deaths since the epidemic started in Malaysia (WHO, 2020). At the same time,
COVID-19 has a significant effect on businesses and the economy and catastrophic cases for people's
health. There has never been a more urgent need for companies to reconsider and reconfigure their
businesses for a changing environment as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve. It is now time
for organizations to concentrate on supporting critical areas of their companies that will help them
stabilize and strategize for what is next in the new climate
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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