Highlights • We apply the Kano model to categorize the 11 smart home related futures in the film of Living Tomorrow. • The categorized results can hopefully allow system providers or builders to ...design or install suitable smart homes that meet user needs. • A model which explores resident’s attitude toward smart home in terms of entertainment, automation, and security. • We find that perceived usefulness and trust have positive relationships with resident’s attitude toward smart home.
Many studies have shed light on general computer-mediated communication, instant messaging (IM), and emotion or emoticons, but little is known specifically about the impacts of emoticons in ...task-oriented IM communication in the workplace. Therefore, the current study addresses this issue by conducting an exploratory experiment to (1) categorize workplace IM messages into coherent groups, (2) identify the most commonly used emoticons (emblems) for expressing positive, negative, and neutral emotions in the case company, (3) test the differences in the emotional effects of the received text messages with and without emoticons on the reader/s, and (4) examine the intention to use emoticons in IM in the workplace. The results showed that (1) negative emoticons could cause a negative effect in both simplex and complex task-oriented communication, (2) positive emoticons only created a positive effect in complex communication and for female employees in simplex communication, and (3) there is no significant difference between task-oriented messages with or without neutral emoticon. Furthermore, the intention of using emoticons was not statistically significant in terms of gender, but it has a higher tendency on female employees. The corresponding suggestions provided by this research may help increase our understanding on the effect of emoticon use in IM in the workplace.
While many past studies focus on quality research - especially using 'Kano's model', little is known about the stream of 'Kano's model'. Begun as an effort to gauge the contribution to the field of ...'Kano's model', this study reviews 94 academic articles related to Kano's model and appeared in 52 SSCI and SCI journals from 1998 to April 2012. In this study, we identified the keywords and conducted a survey to search for the related articles in the ISI Web of Science database and present our findings, such as the numbers of publications by years, categorisations of article types, key publication venues and contributors, and articles cited most. Our study showed that the amount of articles about 'Kano's model' increased from 1998 to the end of 2011, which indicates that the Kano's model's influence is an upward trend. We also find that 'Kano's model' research has fascinated a number of researchers during the 14 years covered in this study. Researchers from Asia, Africa, America and Europe have made the most contributions to this field in our findings. This study provides evidence that 'Kano's model' did attract academic researchers and contribute to the field of quality research.
This study used the bibliographic scattering analysis to explore the scientific publications trends on gifted individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) over the past 23 years. The study ...examined the applicability and appropriateness of Bradford's and Lotka's laws of scattering to measure the impact factors of journals, institutions, countries, researchers, and personal publications on the area of research. After examining 95 research papers published in 55 Social Sciences Citation Indexed (SSCI) journals from 1998 to 2020. The rank list was prepared to identify the core journals in education. Themost frequent venues of journals in descending order of times cited are, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Science (USA) with 33.8% of citation, followed by the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (USA) with 10.3% of citation and Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (USA) with 8.2% of citation. The top four categories of research were psychology with 37.13% of publications, followed by psychiatry (13.77%), neurosciences and neurology (11.38%), and education (8.38%). The study found that Asperger syndrome (AS) is still used in academic studies, even after it was immersed in the ASD by DSM-5 criteria. The findings and limitations were presented and discussed.
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nitially aimed at identifying trends and contributions in the extensive field of "Tallinn Manual," this article examines 26 academic publications related to Tallinn Manual, which were featured in ...journals indexed in the WoS (Web of Science) from 1998 to November 2022. In this survey, we have conducted a thorough analysis of relevant keywords and reviewed numerous articles to determine their connection with the subject matter. Our study encompasses various parameters, such as the amount of publications per year, classification of article types, primary authors, academic journals, and the highest frequently cited articles. Moreover, we have examined citation counts for journals, authors, and articles. The outcomes of our study suggest a noticeable growth in the number of articles related to the Tallinn Manual between 1998 and November 2022, indicating an increasing trend in the influence of Tallinn Manuals before 2020. The research on Tallinn Manual has captivated the attention of several scholars during the study period. Notably, scholars from the United States, Australia, England, the Netherlands, and South Korea have made substantial contributions to this subject. Our study stresses the fact that the notion of Tallinn Manual has piqued the interest of academic researchers, leading to noteworthy advancements in Tallinn Manual research.
At the end of March 2018, a clustered outbreak of measles associated with health care workers occurred in northern Taiwan. Prior to this study, the policy for measles vaccination for physicians and ...nurses in MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan was encouragement of vaccination in medical personnel working in the emergency room or other high risk divisions without prior testing for measles antibody, and vaccination coverage was only 85.3%. It was important to urgently formulate a new strategy to achieve zero tolerance for intra-hospital transmission and epidemic prevention. This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a new strategy for the prevention of an outbreak of measles.
This study was conducted from April 23, 2018 to May 22, 2018 in the MacKay Memorial Hospital, a medical center and tertiary teaching hospital with 2200 beds in northern Taiwan. First-line medical personnel in the hospital underwent a free screening for measles antibody as a new strategy for measles outbreak prevention. Susceptible medical personnel were advised to receive measles vaccination.
A total of 719 first-line medical personnel were enrolled for the general survey. Measles seropositivity was 76.1% (287/377) in the generation born after 1978 (vaccinated), and 96.5% (330/342) in the generation born before 1978 (p < 0.001), while the overall seropositivity was 85.8% (617/719). Vaccination coverage of susceptible personnel under the new strategy reached 86.3% in the first month (88/102) following the survey. At the end of the first month after implementation of the new strategy, 98.1% of the medical personnel were seropositive or revaccinated, and reached 99.4% at the end of the second month.
In this study, rapid, free antibody screening during a measles outbreak and subsequent vaccination of those susceptible resulted in most of the first-line medical personnel being seropositive or revaccinated. The new strategy was effective, time saving, used little manpower, and of low cost. Screening for measles antibody free of charge followed by vaccination of seronegative medical personnel can be regarded as an effective health management strategy to reduce and prevent the spread of measles infection.
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•We identified 221 studies on agile software development have drawn 466 researchers and published in 38 SCI-indexed journals from 37 states.•We measure individual and institutional contributions ...through literature appearances in article count and citation analysis.•JSS, IST, ESE, and SPE published relatively more articles on agile software development from 2007 to 2012, within identified 38 SCI-indexed journals. But cannot find the journal basket for agile software development as of now.•We found a group of active core intelligence with significant appearances in and dominant influence on agile software development.•We presented a new steam of research that focuses on hybrid agile to scale up to handle larger projects and distributed teams and to scale out to manage variability across the product families.
The number of scholarly publications on agile software development has grown significantly in recent years. Several researchers reviewed and attempted to synthesize studies on agile software development. However, no work has ranked the contributions of scholars and institutions to publications using a thorough process. This study presents findings on top publications, institutions, and scholars in the agile software development field from 2001 to 2012 based on the publication of such works in Science Citation Index journals. This paper highlights the key outlets for agile research and summarizes the most influential researchers and institutions as well as the most studied research areas. This study concludes by providing directions for future research.
In 2017, the World Health Organization categorized carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) as a priority 1, critical antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This study analyzed the clinical ...outcomes and investigated the molecular epidemiology of CRAB bacteremia in a medical center in Northern Taiwan.
We collected 62 blood isolates from patients with CRAB bacteremia from January 2014 to December 2015 at MacKay Memorial Hospital and determined the clonal relationship using the PCR-based technique for molecular epidemiology. Medical charts were reviewed for clinical outcomes.
Fifty-six isolates harbored the blaOXA-51-like and blaOXA-23-like carbapenemase genes, 4 isolates harbor the blaOXA-51-like and blaOXA-24-like carbapenemase genes and 2 isolates harbored only the blaOXA-51-like gene. After sequencing, all four isolates of blaOXA-24-like carbapenemase gene were confirmed to be isolates of blaOXA-72 carbapenemase genes. In multivariate analysis in the 60 patients, the independent mortality risk factors of CRAB bacteremia included ≥65 years (elderly) (Odds ratio, 4.04, 95% CI, 1.10–14.83, p = 0.035), chronic kidney disease (4.36, 1.14–16.72, p = 0.032). Isolates harboring the blaOXA-72 gene had the same sequence type (ST218) and PFGE pulsotype raising the possibility of intra-hospital transmission, and all infected patients died.
This study showed the clonal relationship of isolates harboring the carbapenemase gene in CRAB bacteremia. Patients with the ST218 strain harboring blaOXA-72 gene had high mortality. This warrants further research to determine the mechanism of virulence and risk factors in order to reduce mortality.
This article, which began as an effort to gauge trends in and contributions to the broad field of “entrepreneur/entrepreneurship,” reviews 5,476 academic articles on entrepreneurship that were ...published in 522 Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index journals from 1996 to June 2012. This survey identifies keywords and conducts a review to search for and identify related articles in the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science database. We then present our findings, including the number of publications by year, categorization of article types, main academic journals, authors, and most-cited articles. The citation counts for authors, journals, and articles are also analyzed. This study indicates that the number of articles related to the keyword entrepreneur increased from 1996 to the end of 2011, which is a sign of an upward trend in the influence of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur research fascinated numerous scholars during the study period covering 16.5 years. In particular, researchers from the USA, England, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands have made the most contributions to this field. This literature review provides evidence that the concept of entrepreneur attracted academic researchers, resulting in significant contributions to the field of entrepreneur research.
Upon its release in July 2016, Pokémon Go, a Location Based Service game achieved astonishing popularity and became one of the world's most widely played mobile games. However, this wave of ...popularity soon peaked and the user base quickly lost interest. This study examines the lack of stickiness of the Pokémon Go application over time. The research model hypothesizes that intrinsic motivation, network externalities, and serendipity influence application stickiness, mediated by flow and user gratification. After surveying 600 samples, this proposed model was tested with a structural equation modeling approach. Unlike previous studies, the results reveal that gratification plays a more important role than flow in retaining users. Furthermore, over time the impact of network externalities and intrinsic motivation gradually disappeared, leaving only a weak serendipity-gratification-stickiness relationship. These findings might explain the game's drop off in popularity.
•Gratification is a more important factor than Flow to predict Stickiness.•The correlation between Flow and Stickiness is spurious in this study.•Gratification is a front predictor to Flow and Stickiness.•For average players, all independent variables are important.•For advanced players, only Serendipity is important.
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