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Effects of Subjective Norms and Security on Online Banking Adoption: Multilevel Linear Model Analysis
Get PDFRobust macroeconomic performance is essential for an economic growth and development alongside challenging technology advancements. Within the service sector of the economy, one of the broadly studied areas of technological transformation is the retail financial services which includes consumer banking activities. Online banking enables customers to experience in a vast array of financial services through e-banking websites. Nevertheless, in practice; this phenomenon varies depending on the particular context. Hence, this research addresses the significance of subjective norms and security of e-services towards adoption of consumer online banking in the specified context. Sample was drawn from the students of the Kelaniya University those who are participating for the week-end study programs. The students of the doctor of business administration attached to the university were designated as enumerators of the data collection process. Data collection has been executed by way of self-administered questionnaires which were completed by the respective respondents. Initially 400 questionnaires were distributed and 287 duly completed questionnaires were considered for the final data analysis. TAM has been extended using the subjective norms and security of e-services variables and dimensions of the variables were measured by five-point Lickert scale. Reliability analysis was conducted to measure internal consistencies using Cronbach’s alpha. In order to test the hypotheses anova, ancova and multilevel linear model used. The empirical evidence supported three hypotheses indicating the significance of the variables/constructs on adoption of online banking. In conclusion, researcher has presented several suggestions related to future researches on online banking adoption field
Relationship of Perceived Behavioral Control and Adoption of Internet Banking in the Presence of a Moderator
Get PDFInternet banking is most remarkable in consumer banking segment alongside the fast-paced financial innovations. In practical scenario, internet banking is a contextual phenomenon. Hence, this research endeavored to determine the association of adoption and perceived behavioral control (PBC) variables on adoption of internet banking in the context of Sri Lankan commercial banks. Sample was drawn from the customers of three of the leading private banks. Accounts opening officials were selected as enumerators and data collected through self-administered questionnaires. Initially 450 research questionnaires were disseminated and only 307 were considered for the final data analysis. Principal factors of PBC were identified by conducting principal component analysis. TAM was extended using the PBC and constructs of the variables were measured by five-point Lickert scale. Hypothesis testing was conducted by correlation analysis afterwards, multiple regression analysis using hierarchical method along with diagnosis tests for outliers, residuals, influential cases performed while supplementary statistical tests namely, trend analysis and contrast test of ANOVA, ANCOVA and Hayes’s process for moderation analysis were simultaneously used for further analysis. Empirical evidences supported two hypotheses indicating the positive relationships of PBC and adoption, towards internet banking acceptance. Additionally, it was exposed that there are significant differences between demographic variables. Third hypothesis based on the presence of differences in adoption of internet banking between low income category customers as against higher income categories was also supported accordingly. Subsequently, ANCOVA test identified that the covariate; age was not significantly related to the respondents’ internet banking acceptance whilst the moderation analysis has confirmed relationship between PBC and internet banking adoption is being moderated by the age of the respondent. As a final note, researchers have forwarded several suggestions for internet banking service providers and system developers towards developing marketing strategies to enhance the adoption of internet banking
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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