bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Designing a Model for the Relationship Between Marketing Activities and Organization Performance: Meta-Analysis on the Moderating Role of Research Topic Characteristics
Authors: Nouri Bagher Asgarnezhad , Sanayei Ali , Fathi Saeed , Kazemi Ali , Soltani Milad 
Published: August 2020

The role of marketing in explaining firms’ business performance has received significant attention throughout the history of the marketing discipline. Over the past two decades, researchers have considerably enhanced the conceptual understanding of the role of marketing in enabling firms to create and sustain a competitive advantage. Recent advances in the marketing–performance interface have also begun to provide more empirical evidence of the impact of specific marketing activities and different types of marketing-related assets on firms’ performance. On the other side, results of studies in many academic fields that are conducted about a specific issue are usually confusing and contrasting. Meta-analysis is a research approach that helps the researcher to a large extent to identify the moderating variables in the results of previous studies. Despite various researches having been conducted, such contrast is also observed in the relationship between marketing activities and organization performance. Characteristics of the research topic can be referred to among the several reasons that have been mentioned for such divergence in similar studies. It was tried in the present survey to identify the role of moderating variables regarding the characteristics of the research topic in the relationship between marketing activities and organization performance using the meta-analysis approach. The results revealed that the moderating variables related to the characteristics of the research topic consisting of marketing activity indexes, organization performance indexes, researcher field and year of publication of the research have been led to a significant difference in the results of studies regarding the effect of marketing activities on performance of organizations. Keywords: Marketing activities, Organization performance, Characteristics of research topic, Meta-analysis approach.
Keperluan Pemegang Kepentingan Institusi Zakat Terhadap Item Maklumat Pelaporan Prestasi
Authors: Shafie Noor Fadzilah , Maelah Ruhanita , Basnan Norida 
Published: August 2020

Zakat memainkan peranan penting dalam ekonomi Islam sebagai salah satu alat ekonomi bagi memartabatkan golongan miskin. Justeru, keyakinan pembayar zakat terhadap proses pengurusan zakat yang dilakukan oleh institusi zakat adalah penting dalam meningkatkan jumlah kutipan zakat. Keyakinan pembayar zakat ini dan pihak awam secara umumnya boleh ditingkatkan melalui pendedahan maklumat kewangan dan prestasi institusi zakat secara telus dan menyeluruh. Bagi meningkatkan keyakinan dan seterusnya menjelaskan akauntabiliti institusi zakat kepada pelbagai pihak pemegang kepentingannya, pelaporan prestasi yang mendedahkan maklumat mengikut keperluan pemegang kepentingan merupakan salah satu medium penting yang telah diiktiraf dalam kebanyakan kajian lepas. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji keperluan pemegang kepentingan terhadap pendedahan item maklumat di dalam pelaporan prestasi institusi zakat. Tujuan ini dicapai dengan melaksanakan kaedah tinjauan soalselidik terhadap tiga kumpulan pemegang kepentingan iaitu pembayar zakat, penerima zakat dan pentadbir zakat. Hasil kajian menunjukkan secara keseluruhan pemegang kepentingan menyatakan maklumat kewangan dan bukan kewangan adalah penting untuk didedahkan di dalam pelaporan prestasi dan tiada perbezaan keperluan pendedahan bagi kebanyakan item maklumat di kalangan pembayar, penerima dan pentadbir zakat. Hasil kajian boleh dijadikan panduan kepada pihak institusi zakat dan agensi kerajaan lain bagi meningkatkan ketelusan dan memperkasakan akauntabiliti dalam mencapai urus tadbir ekonomi yang adil. Kata kunci: Zakat, pelaporan prestasi, pemegang kepentingan, akauntabiliti. Klasifikasi JEL: H75, H83, M41
A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOGRAPHIC FACTORS AND THE PURCHASE OF LIFE INSURANCE
Authors: Sin Tan Suang , Chee Lim Chee 
Published: August 2020

This was a preliminary study conducted to examine the relationship between psychographic factors (i.e., personal value, risk attitude, and trust) and the purchase of life insurance among Alor Setar city folks. A non-probability convenience sampling technique was used to collect data from early February to mid-March 2015. A sample comprising 108 respondents were subjected to binary logistic regression analysis. The major finding of this study showed that risk attitude has a significant and negative relationship with the purchase of life insurance. Respondents in Alor Setar who are more likely to involve in risky behaviours or activities tend not to buy life insurance. Risk taking individuals do not behave like risk averse individuals who tend to seek protection by buying life insurance as a method to cover their personal risks. Meanwhile, personal value and trust were found to have no significant relationship with the purchase of life insurance among respondents in Alor Setar. It is recommended that a comprehensive study covering wider areas with larger sample sizes be included in future studies to obtain more reliable results that would enable the generalisation of findings. Keywords: Life insurance, Psychographic factors, Personal value, Risk attitude, Trust
Examining the Mediating Effect of Strategic Agility in the Relationship Between Intellectual Capital and Organizational Excellence in Jordan Service
Authors: Al-azzam Zeyad Faisal , Irtaimeh Hani Jazza’a , Khaddam Amineh Abdul Halim 
Published: August 2020

This study aims to investigate the effect of intellectual capital and strategic agility on organizational excellence in service sector of Jordan. A total of 550 questionnaires were collected from respondents who were chosen from a stratified random sampling. The results revial that intellectual capital and its dimensions, human capital, structural capital, and relational capital, have a significant impact on strategic agility as well as organizational excellence. Moreover, results reveal that strategic agility fully mediates the relationship between intellectual capital and organizational excellence. The findings of this study can have significant implications for the service sector of Jordan. Keywords: Strategic agility, Intellectual capital, HRM, Excellence performance
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING INFORMATION USEFULNESS AND CLOUD COMPUTING QUALITIES AMONG SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
Authors: Maelah Ruhanita , Al Lami Mohammed Fadhil Farhan , Ghassan Gheyath 
Published: August 2020

Small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) stand to benefit and become competitive by utilizing information and communication technologies. Despite constraints faced by SMEs in adopting management accounting practices, it is imperative that management accounting information (MAI) be utilized to attain effective and efficient business operations. SMEs can benefit from cloud computing through the reduction of operating costs related to new technology adoption. In acknowledging the significance of cloud computing and MAI, this study examined the extent of MAI usefulness and qualities of cloud computing among Malaysian SMEs. Through self-administered questionnaires, a total of 105 respondents’ feedback was analyzed. The usefulness of MAI is a result of the availability and importance of each dimension’s items (timeliness, aggregation, scope, and integration). The findings also showed that the qualities of cloud computing (agility, assurance, accountability, financial, security and privacy, performance, and usability) can be considered as important; thus indicating the extent of technology utilization among SMEs. Keywords: Management accounting information, cloud computing, small-to-medium enterprises.
OBJECT CONTOUR COMPLETION BY COMBINING OBJECT RECOGNITION AND LOCAL EDGE CUES
Authors: Loke Kar Seng 
Published: August 2020

We developed a top-down and bottom-up segmentation ofobjects using shape contours through a two-stage procedure. First, the object was identified using an edge-based contour feature and then the object contour was obtained using a constraint optimization procedure based on the results from the earlier identified contours. The initial object detection provides object category specific information for the contour completion to be effected. We argue that top-down bottom-up interaction architecture has plausible neurological correlates. This method has an advantage in that it does not require learning boundaries with large datasets.
LEVEL OF RESILIENCE MEASURE FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Authors: Wajdi Ibrahim Mariam 
Published: August 2020

Our daily life applications have come to depend on communication networks to deliver services in an efficient manner. This has made it possible for an attacker to sabotage its operation. Network resiliency is concerned with the degree the network is able to bounce back to a normal operation in the face of attacks. This paper introduced a new resiliency measure, called Levelof-Resilience (LoR) for communication networks, determined by examining: (a) the Level-of-Stability-Reduction (LoSR), as measured by percentage of “IP traffic dropped”, (b) the eventual Level-of-Performance-Reduction (LoPR), as captured by the percentage of reduction in the application Quality-of-Service (QoS), namely latency and (c) Recovery-Time (RT), which is the time the network takes to detect and recover from an attack or a fault, as measured by convergence duration. Previous resiliency measures may only consider one aspect of the above parameters, while this measure is a composite of them. This paper showed that network topology can affect the network resilience, as indicated by the LoR metric. This measure is illustrated by comparing the resiliency level of two communication networks that served the same traffic, but differed in their network topology, under three different attack scenarios.
MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RECOGNITION FROM VARIOUS ACCELEROMETER SENSOR POSITIONS
Authors: Mohamed Raihani , Shah Zainudin Mohammad Noorazlan , Sulaiman Md Nasir , Perumal Thinagaran , Mustapha Norwati 
Published: August 2020

In recent years, the use of accelerometers embedded in smartphones for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has been well considered. Nevertheless, the role of the sensor placement is yet to be explored and needs to be further investigated. In this study, we investigated the role of sensor placements for recognizing various types of physical activities using the accelerometer sensor embedded in the smartphone. In fact, most of the reported work in HAR utilized traditional multi-class classification approaches to determine the types of activities. Hence, this study was to recognize the activity based on the best sensor placements that are appropriate to the activity performed. The traditional multi-class classification approach required more manual work and was time consuming to run the experiment separately. Thus, this study proposed the multi- label classification technique with the Label Combination (LC) approach in order to tackle this issue. The result was compared with several state-of-the-art traditional multi-class classification approaches. The multi-label classification result significantly outperformed the traditional multi-class classification methods as well as minimized the model build time.
HYBRID CAT SWARM OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATED ANNEALING FOR DYNAMIC TASK SCHEDULING ON CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Gabi Danlami , Ismail Abdul Samad , Zainal Anazida , Zakaria Zalmiyah , Al-Khasawneh Ahmad 
Published: August 2020

The unpredictable number of task arriving at cloud datacentre and the rescaling of virtual processing elements can affect the provisioning of better Quality of Service expectations during task scheduling in cloud computing. Existing researchers have contributed several task scheduling algorithms to provide better QoS expectations but are characterized with entrapment at the local search and high dimensional breakdown due to slow convergence speed and imbalance between global and local search, resulting from lack of scalability. Dynamic task scheduling algorithms that can adjust to long-time changes and continue facilitating the provisioning of better QoS are necessary for cloud computing environment. In this study, a Cloud Scalable Multi-Objective Cat Swarm Optimization-based Simulated Annealing algorithm is proposed. In the proposed method, the orthogonal Taguchi approach is applied to enhance the SA which is incorporated into the local search of the proposed CSMCSOSA algorithm for scalability performance. A multi-objective QoS model based on execution time and execution cost criteria is presented to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm on CloudSim tool with two different datasets. Quantitative analysis of the algorithm is carried out with metrics of execution time, execution cost, QoS and performance improvement rate percentage. Meanwhile, the scalability analysis of the proposed algorithm using Isospeed-efficiency scalability metric is also reported. The results of the experiment show that the proposed CSM-CSOSA has outperformed Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm, Multi-Objective Ant Colony and Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization by returning minimum execution time and execution cost as well as better scalability acceptance rate of 0.4811−0.8990 respectively. The proposed solution when implemented in real cloud computing environment could possibly meet customers QoS expectations as well as that of the service providers.
An Overview of Push/Pull Factors of Political Participation in Nigeria
Authors: Othman Muhammad Fuad , Osman Nazariah , Mohammed Isah Shehu 
Published: August 2020

This article overviews the push/pull factors of citizens’ participation in Nigerian politics. Citizens’ participation in state politics is both integral and an indispensable part of every political system and development. However, it is determined by numerous factors which are universal, but relative in terms of contexts. Such a participation is affected by many factors in Nigeria. The study uses secondary sources to collect data and perform qualitative analysis. The study is timely and significant in view of the critical roles where participation plays in shaping and influencing Nigerian politics, especially at the current moment when it is being characterized by apathy and participation on two ends. It is concentrated on an atmosphere of push and pull forces, negative and positive issues and developments, this environment is manipulated by elites/politicians. This needs a change for the better, to inculcate hope, overcome despair, anxiety as well as increased ethno-religious and electoral tensions.
Parental Attachment as Predictor of Delinquency
Authors: Abdullah Maria Chong , Gaik Lee Phaik , Elias Habibah , Uli Jegak 
Published: August 2020

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between adolescents’ parental attachment and delinquent behaviour in the aspects of trust, communication and alienation. In this study, delinquent behaviour refers to the set of behaviours which is against any mainstream established rules or norms. It is believed that delinquent behaviour has the potential to cause school failure, impairments in socio-emotional development, peer rejection, and adult crime. Methodology – Data were gathered from a sample of 300 secondary school students aged 15-18 years old in Selangor. These students were selected from the “hardcore schools” which was obtained from the so called "hardcore schools" listed by the School Division for serious disciplinary problems. Two instruments, namely surveys on the “Behaviour of Students” and “Parental Attachment”(PA) were utilized to collect the research data. The researchers employed correlational research design in this study. Findings – Data showed that the highest delinquency among the adolescents was misbehaviour in school, followed by crime, vandalism, pornography, dishonesty and drugs. Results also revealed a negative linear relationship between parental attachment (r=-0.282,p=0.0001) and delinquent behaviour, implying that adolescents with better parental attachment had lower levels of delinquency. In addition, findings showed that adolescents trusted in their mothers (M=3.70,SD=0.63) more than they trusted in their fathers (M=3.51, SD=0.72) in relation to communication and alienation. It is suggested that close supportive parents and frequent communication between parents and their children serve to prevent adolescent delinquency. Significance – This research is significant to parents, school, teachers, counselors and the community.
Constraints of Math Teachers’ in Conducting Action Research in the Philippines: Rights Analysis
Authors: Valdez Paolo Nino , Lapinid Minie Rose 
Published: August 2020

Purpose – This exploratory investigation examines the material and non-discursive constraints of Math teachers in conducting action research in the Philippines. It initially describes the contexts of participation of scholars situated in the periphery in knowledge production and teases out the apparent challenges faced in the successful conduct of research. Methodology – Anchored on Lave and Wenger’s concept of community of practice and legitimate peripheral participation, the study employs rights analysis as a means to determine the constraints of the respondents in doing action research. Additionally, it traces the mechanisms of power that reinforce and reproduce these challenges. Data was obtained from 13 mathematics teachers employed in different schools under the Manila Archdiocesan and Parochial Schools Association (Mapsa). These teachers have varying work experiences and are teaching different grade levels. The respondents were systematically sampled since they are part of an action research course under the master’s program in teaching math offered by the university. Findings – Based on the findings, it is argued that due to the disempowering material, social and political conditions of these teachers, they may be considered as part of a hierarchy of peripheral participation since they possess limited opportunities for academic socialisation in the conduct of action research . Finally, this paper draws implications for the improvement of research training in periphery contexts. Significance – With the increased interest in the socio-political dimension in the teaching and learning process, this work may be of interest to those engaged in conducting research training as well as other stakeholders in the academe to improve the conduct of action research in their respective educational institutions.
Inquiry Practices in Malaysian Secondary Classroom and Model of Inquiry Teaching based on Verbal Interaction
Authors: Siew Li Winnie Sim , Arshad Mohammad Yusof 
Published: August 2020

Purpose – Inquiry teaching has been suggested as one of the important approaches in teaching chemistry. This study investigates the inquiry practices among chemistry teachers. Method – A combination of quantitative and qualitative study was applied in this study to provide detailed information about inquiry teaching practices. Questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and field notes were used. 23 chemistry teachers participated in this study. 92 chemistry lessons were audio and video recorded, which subsequently were transcribed in verbatim. By applying descriptive statistics, the frequencies and percentages of each category in the observation instrument were determined. Findings – Most of the questions made by the teachers and students were closed-ended questions. Teachers in this study practised wait-time after asking questions. Meanwhile, it was found that most of the students’ questions were followed by answer given by the teacher and the sequence after students’ answers was followed by explanation from the teacher. Students were merely following teacher’s explanation or procedures in text book before carrying out experiment. The mean of students’ ability to provide further explanation was very low. Significance – A model of inquiry teaching based on verbal interaction was proposed as a guide for chemistry teachers to implement inquiry teaching in order to be in line with the Malaysian National Science Education Standards.
Criterion-Referenced and Norm-Referenced Agreement between the Mile Run/ Walk Test and the One-And-A-Half Mile Run/Walk Test and the Pacer Test
Authors: Hashim Ahmad , Madon Mohd Sani 
Published: August 2020

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to test the reliability of the Mile Run/Walk Test and One- and- a- Half Mile Run or Walk Test, and the PACER Test 20-m, multistage shuttle run using criterionreference and norm reference as a working framework. Method – The sample for the study comprised 2,056 students, with male (n = 1159) and female (n = 897) randomly selected using stratifi ed random sampling, from the whole population of students aged 13, 14, and 15 years from 18 secondary schools throughout Perak, Malaysia. Two trials of the PACER Test and one each of the Mile Run/Walk Test and One-and-a-Half Mile Run/Walk Test were performed. The estimated criterion referenced reliability for the Mile Run/Walk Test and the One-and-a-Half Mile Run/Walk Test, and the PACER Test was obtained using the proportion of agreement (Pa) and ‘modifi ed kappa (Kq) on FITNESSGRAM® Standards (Baumgartner, Jackson, Mahar, & Rowe, 2003) and the American College of Sports Standards (ACSM, 1999). Findings – Results of the study showed that the Pacer Test had high reliability for testing the maximum volume of oxygen among male and female students aged 13, 14, and 15 years old. The statistical analysis indicated a positive and strong correlation between test scores and repeated tests for the Pacer Test on male and female students aged 13, 14 and 15 years old with r = 0.94 to 0.97; 0.95 to 0.97 respectively, and was signifi cant (p<.05). Value – It is recommended that the PACER Test be used as a component of the Physical Fitness Test battery to replace the Mile Run/Walk Test and the One-and-a-Half Mile Run or Walk Test, which are still used by the Malaysian Ministry of Education, Teacher Education Division, Curriculum Development Centre, and also State Education Departments to test students’ cardiovascular resistance.
How Strategic Alliances Change: The Case of the Japanese Semiconductor Business
Authors: Teramoto Yoshiya , Iwasaki Naoto Iwasaki , Takai Tohru 
Published: August 2020

The structure of the semiconductor industry has been changing recently. Japanese companies have lost their competitiveness, while their US and Korean counterparts have been strengthening theirs. At the same time, the map of the inter-firm relationships in the IT industry is changing. Patterns of strategic alliances in the semiconductor business have been evolving and have become complicated. We will investigate the transformation of strategic alliances, and we will propose how Japanese semiconductor companies can recover through a new type of alliance.
CAPM or APT? A Comparison of Two Asset Pricing Models for Malaysia
Authors: Khoon Cung Huck , Sanda Ahmadu Umaru , Gupta G.S. 
Published: August 2020

This study uses monthly return data on 213 stocks listed on the main board of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, Malaysia for the period September 1988 to June 1997 to compare two frequently cited asset pricing models: the capital asset pricing model, CAPM and the arbitrage pricing theory, APT. A comparison was performed along the lines of Chen (1983) and the results showed the APT to perform better than the CAP/ in explaining the variations in cross section of returns. The implication for investors is that the market index is but one of several sources of risk, which should be taken into account in any decision governing investment in the stock market.