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Sedentary behaviors such as prolonged occupational and leisure-time sitting are now ubiquitous in modern societies. Sedentary time is positively associated with increased risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality. Smartphones can sense the sedentary behaviors performed by their users, as well as the contexts (situations) in which sedentary behaviors occur. In this...
The Islamic websites play an important role in disseminating Islamic knowledge and information about Islamic ruling. Their number and the content they provide is continuously increasing which require in-depth investigations in content evaluation automation. In this paper, we are proposing the use of conceptual reasoning for detecting inconsistencies in case of Fatwas evaluation. Inconsistencies are...
Many aspects of our electricity systems are rapidly changing, including the ability to locally generate power with renewable energy sources and integrate local storage. Key factors that led to our current grid architecture may no longer hold in the near future. A new approach to power distribution within buildings is Local Power Distribution (LPD). In LPD individual devices are organized into nanogrids...
Crowdsourcing is a new distributed computing paradigm that leverages the wisdom of crowd and the voluntary human effort to solve problems or collect data. In this context, trustworthiness of user contributions is of crucial importance to the viability of crowdsourcing. Prior mechanisms either do not consider the trustworthiness or quality of contributions or have to assess it only after workers' submission...
Trust is as significant a factor for successful online interactions as it is in offline communities. Trust is an important factor to predict the behaviour of an entity and as a criterion for an entity selection. Most trust studies focused on trust establishment without identifying and considering the main trust definition components and trust principles. This paper explores trust in the offline and...
This study examined the antecedents and subsequences of trusting belief in C2C marketplace utilizing an integrated model, which posits that consumer-based and institution-based factors influence trusting belief in C2C marketplace, which further indirectly (mediated by the attitude) affect the willingness to participate in a C2C marketplace. Data were collected from respondents using questionnaire...
Trust is critical for the growth of e-commerce. For consumers with or without experience, this study examines the influencing factors on online initial trust and ongoing trust by conducting an empirical test involving 800 participants with structure equation modeling (SEM). The results suggest the effects of perceived information quality on initial trust is significant, but its effect on ongoing trust...
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