Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Correlation Between Annual Reports’ Narratives and Business Performance: A Retrospective Analysis

This article investigates the extant literature on the correlation between narratives in corporate annual reports and corporate performance. Prior studies are reviewed for overall characteristics, research topics, theoretical foundations, a...

Research Methods in Plant Science

Measurement and Pedagogical Diagnosis of Phonoholism Among Adolescents

Research objectives: Adolescence is one of the most difficult developmental periods. Studies have documented ill-being among adolescents (Chen & Lucock, 2022; Alimoradi et al., 2022; Lakkunarajah et al., 2022; Li et al., 2022). Furthermore,...

人性的探討及其啟示：J. Bruner與賈馥茗之觀點的交融 The Discussion of Human Nature and Its Implications: The Integration of the Viewpoints of J. Bruner and Jia Fuming

有關人性的探討，歷來多所討論，但未盡周全。本文以美國心理學家J. S. Bruner與我國學者賈馥茗的觀點為據，採取詮釋學方法，進行分析和詮釋，綜整歸納，期能更明確掌握人性。本研究指出，前者認為人類因其較長的未成熟狀態，而提升其受教性，同時受人類所創造的社會文化之薰陶，啟迪心智，因而發展出複雜的思考能力，增進其適應力；後者則主張人性具有自然之性、基本情感、欲求以及官能。綜括而言，兩者的論點各具特色，統觀之，有助於增進人性輪廓的完整性，而善用人類的未成熟狀態則能降低風險和欲求，...

PENGARUH FITUR VIRTUAL ACCOUNT BILLING, PAYMENT TRANSACTION, DAN E-STATEMENT TERHADAP PENGAPLIKASIAN M-BANKING

Customers experience many problems in making direct transactions through ATM outlets such as waiting for queues at banks, remote home locations, checking bank statements and several other problems. The research aims to see the effect of vir...

Increased prevalence of loneliness and associated risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Abstract Background Older adults have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and related preventative measures undertaken during the pandemic. Given clear evidence of the relationship between loneliness and health outcomes, it is impe...

Yes! Kissing Too… The Child Would Not Be Hurt in Any Way: Social Constructions of Child Sexual Abuse in the Ga Community in Ghana

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child obligates nations to protect children from all forms of abuse including sexual. However, child sexual abuse is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to understand as a result of cul...

Investigating the cost of mechanized unpaved road maintenance operations in Uganda

Force Account Mechanism (FAM) is the predominant road maintenance system in Uganda’s local government setup and a similar, though slightly different approach, is used in some large private sector agriculture plantations. With the Uganda Roa...

Signs of leadership of EAEU businesses focused on building digital ecosystems

Aim. The presented study aims to identify the signs of leadership of companies in the Eurasian space using the capabilities of digital technologies for innovative development in building digital ecosystems.   Tasks. The authors identify the...

Case Studies Approach in Tourism Destination Branding Research

A review of literature indicates that there are different types of qualitative research methods such as action research, content analysis, ethnography, grounded theory, historical analysis, phenomenology and case study. However, which appro...

Pengaruh Muatan Etika dalam Pendidikan Akuntansi terhadap Persepsi Etika Mahasiswa

The aim of this research is to reveal the influence of the effect of the content of ethics in accounting education which are given in the form of spiritual inner reflection tasks, ethical issue problems, discussion, and resolution of ethica...

Qualitative research methods in health technology assessment: a review of the literature.

Emerging New Era of Mobile Health Technologies

medical records [6].Patients are also able to reduce their direct and indirect healthcare costs through reduction of the need for healthcare clinic visits or hospitalization [7,8].Regarding mHealth, there is an international conference, "mH...

Research Methods in International Relations

Introduction Chapter 1: Research Methods in International Relations Chapter 2: Research Questions and Research Design Chapter 3: Research Ethics Chapter 4: Writing a Literature Review Chapter 5: Qualitative Methods in International Relation...

Achieving Consensus in the South China Sea: Explaining Bilateralism's Bane and Multilateralism's Boon

A prolonged debate arises whether bilateralism or multilateralism is the most effective path to achieve mutual consensus among parties in the South China Sea dispute. This study identifies bilateral approach negativity to settle such a comp...

Plasma Exchange for ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: An International Survey of Patient PreferencesPlain Language Summary

Rationale & Objective: We sought to elicit patient preferences regarding the use of plasma exchange in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) and its tradeoffs of risk of kidney failure and risk of serious infec...

Cybersecurity as a Politikum

In the cybersecurity community it is common to think of security as a design feature for systems and infrastructures that may be difficult to balance with other requirements. What is less studied is how security requirements come about, for...

The role of the Cybersecurity Strategy of the Republic of Poland in ensuring cybersecurity

Cybersecurity belongs to the area of activity of state and supra-state actors, giving direction to national and international systems of law as components of national and supranational systems of political, economic, military cooperation, e...

Leveraging human factors in cybersecurity: an integrated methodological approach

Computer and Information Security (CIS) is usually approached adopting a technology-centric viewpoint, where the human components of sociotechnical systems are generally considered as their weakest part, with little consideration for the en...

Using natural language processing technology for qualitative data analysis

Social researchers often apply qualitative research methods to study groups and their communications artifacts. The use of computer-mediated communications has dramatically increased the volume of text available, but coding such text requir...