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online social networks are progressively being adopted among young people in developing countries. The public is questioning why so many people adopt this technology in many aspects of their lives? The purpose of this study is to understand the acceptance of social networks by Thai students. We used traditional TAM's behavioral constructs: subjective norms (SN), perceived usefulness, perceived ease...
Employing the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this study aims to find determinant factors that have influence over individuals' intention to cyberbully others. Using a scenario-based questionnaire, the data were collected from 96 students in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. According to the results, only subjective norms reflected to be significant over cyberbullying intention, while the rest of variables...
A well-done package enables a product to stand out from competitive brand packages and its form design is capable of creating the initial impression which generates associations regarding product images or consumers' responses to a product. This phenomenon is conspicuous in the packages of bottled products, such as perfume, beverage, shower gel and shampoo, bottled cosmetic and so forth. To create...
Fundamental transformation of the healthcare sector through informatics is achievable, from technical prospective. However, organisational issues surrounding technology implementation in healthcare setting have not yet received adequate research attentions in developing countries. The aim of this study is to develop a conceptual framework model to determine Telemedicine Readiness (TR) at an organisational...
The Internet is simply a series of worldwide computer networks linked together, communicating almost instantly by using various access technologies. It is playing a major role in many areas of our lives, such as communication, entertainment and information which is supported by newer innovations and technology evolvement. While the broadband Internet penetration rate is encouraging in many countries,...
Using survey data from 398 professional or technical workers and their direct supervisors in a large automobile manufacturing enterprise, we built and tested a model to connect the quality of two main social exchange relationships (leader-member exchange: LMX, team-member exchange: TMX) and employee creativity. The results of our study showed that both LMX quality and TMX quality positively related...
The purpose of this paper is to develop a measurement model to measure student perceptions of service quality among skills training institutes in Malaysia. The data used in this study were derived from a questionnaire survey conducted among students of seven skills training institutes. A total of 419 usable responses was received. The measurement model was analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis...
Sample size guideline for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was long established however none investigate the effect from the difference of measurement scales. The authors are concern if researchers prefer to use the minimum number of sample size from the guideline in conducting EFA especially in the clinical setting since it is difficult to get enough sample size. Here, the authors present a guideline...
Group disruptions are very prevalent in practice, yet only little research examines them. We extended the literature on group disruption by exploring its antecedents and consequents. We proposed both perception of guanxi (a Chinese indigenous variable) and perceived organizational politics (an external environmental factor) played roles in group disruption phenomenon, suggesting that group members...
Home-based pill dispensers are one of many devices that are designed to aid medication management and improve adherence. Such devices are common in the United States of America but not widely exploited in Asia. We designed a home-based pill dispenser known as MedMate. Users' perceived acceptance of a new technology such as MedMate affects its actual usage. Thus, we created a paper prototype of MedMate...
According to interviews, examination results of semi-open questionnaires and theoretical hypotheses, this paper proposes the method for preparation of measuring table on university students' Learning burnout about physical education. Results show that based on exploratory factors analysis the measuring table is confirmed to include emotional turndown, behavioral unsuitableness and low personal accomplishment,...
Safety Management Performance of Air Traffic Control is affected by many factors. Via questionnaire statistics analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to optimize items and extract factors, the authors confirm five main effective factors at last, including work initiative, communication and exchange, team cohesion, system completeness and leadership management, and all of them have passed the...
This paper examines the individual IS manager's ability to exploit current IT capabilities and explore new technology innovations. It extends the concept of ambidexterity, which is often studied at the firm or business unit level, to the individual level, and draws from open innovation theory to examine how the ability of an individual IS manager to explore and exploit is associated with their degree...
Mathematics is a core subject that students need to learn since they first entered school life and until higher level institution, the mathematics learning still continues. For each programme offered in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), it is compulsory for all students to take the mathematics subject at least once, along their study depending on their study plan. Therefore, this research was carried...
The original version of the Pain Disability Index (PDI) was being translated into a Malay version by the standard procedure, followed by evaluation for its psychometric properties. 80 patients with chronic pain participated in this study. Their ages range from 18 to 66 years old. The interviews were conducted within ten days between February, 2010 and March, 2010. The scree plot had proved that there...
The aim of this study is to examine the factor structure of the scale of Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), and its divergent and convergent validity in Chinese population. Data were collected with JSS from 1073 urban employees in Liaoning. Four alternative models were tested with confirmatory factor analysis. The first two models are models validated in the US, while the third and fourth models are composed...
With the wanton spread of the global financial turmoil in 2008 ,the majority enterprises in China have been the impact in great degrees, including Apple industry. In this context, it is an urgent need to address many problems of Apple industry in order to obtain stable development. And organizational innovation is the effective measures to sustainable development and transforming itself.Based on the...
This paper developed and tested an integrative model to examine the relationships between customer perceptions of fairness, quality, value, and satisfaction and to investigate the impacts of them on customer loyalty (i.e., revisit, word-of-mouth referrals, and alternative destinations). The model was tested using surveyed data from 320 rural tourists. The results revealed that service fairness did...
This study seeks to determine the antecedent and outcome of employee occupational commitment. The questionnaire recipients were bank employees, and 253 valid questionnaires were returned. Through correlation analysis and regression analysis, the employees' affective occupational commitment was stronger than their affective organizational commitment. Also, if employee affective organizational commitment...
The reliability of metallic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) depends on time-dependent deformation such as creep. The interaction between microstructural length scales and dimensional length scales, so-called `size-effects', play a prominent role in this. As a first critical step towards studying these size effects in time-dependent deformation, a purely mechanical experimental methodology has...
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