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The influence of digital literacy, financial readiness, and government support on the information and communication technology adoption
Full text linkThe contemporary business environment is profoundly shaped by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), which are now integral to global commercial operations. Drawing on Eshet-Alkalai's Digital Literacy Framework, the Finance Readiness Framework, and the Advocacy Coalition Framework, this study aimed to explore how digital literacy, financial readiness, and government support influence ICT adoption among small businesses in Vigan City. It also assessed the levels of digital literacy, financial readiness, government support, and ICT adoption. Using descriptive and correlational research designs, the study surveyed 150 owners and employees of small businesses in Vigan City, selected through non-probability quota sampling. The data were collected using a researcher-designed questionnaire. The findings revealed that increased digital literacy enhanced ICT adoption by reducing barriers to technology integration, while financial readiness positioned businesses to invest effectively in ICT solutions. Moreover, substantial government support—through initiatives like subsidies, training programs, and infrastructure development—created an enabling environment for ICT adoption by addressing challenges such as high costs and inadequate infrastructure. These factors collectively enhanced operational efficiency and competitiveness among small businesses. To optimize ICT adoption further, the study recommended implementing training programs, workshops, and conducting additional research to identify other influencing factors and strategies for effective technology integration in small business operations
Factors Influencing Consumers to Purchase Cultured Mushrooms
Full text linkThe popularity of mushroom cultivation in the Philippines can be attributed to its minimal input demands, driving its increasing adoption across various sectors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to ascertain how product quality, social influence, and market accessibility influenced the purchase intention of cultured mushroom consumers. The study also investigated product quality, social influence, market accessibility, and purchase intention. It employed descriptive and correlational study designs, with 165 consumers in the first district of Ilocos Sur serving as respondents. To choose the study participants, it used the convenience sampling technique. A questionnaire that the researcher constructed was used to collect the data. The findings indicated that product quality, social influence, and market accessibility influence the purchase intention of consumers. Finally, to optimize sales, market reach, and market visibility, this study offered recommendations for cultured mushroom growers in the first district of Ilocos Sur
Examining the influence of employee engagement on employee’s productivity in budget–friendly restaurants
Full text linkThis study investigated how employee engagement related to productivity for employees in budget-friendly restaurants in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur. Drawing on Kahn’s Model of Employee Engagement (Kahn, 1990), the study examined three key aspects of engagement: cognitive, physical, and emotional dimensions. These dimensions helped in understanding their effect on productivity, which was anchored on Human Relations Theory (Mayo, 1946).. The researcher collected data from 100 employees across different budget-friendly restaurants by implementing both descriptive and correlational approaches. The research results showed that employees demonstrated high engagement in all three dimensions, which led to substantial improvements in productivity. Among all engagement factors, physical engagement stood out as the most impactful because it showed the highest correlation with productivity levels. The findings illustrated how comprehensive engagement approaches could improve workplace performance. The study advised budget-friendly restaurants to enhance intellectual stimulation while sustaining supportive physical work environments and nurturing meaningful emotional connections to achieve this goals
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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