BACKGROUND Somatisation is particularly challenging in multicultural contexts where patients and physicians often differ in terms of their illness-related beliefs and practices and health care expectations. This paper reports on a exploratory study aimed at better understanding how asylum seeker and refugee patients from the former country of Yugoslavia who were identified by their physicians a...

We present a new paradigm for multimedia information access, named the “Holistic” information access paradigm, and its underlying architecture, the 3C (Content, context, and common-background) knowledge integration architecture. The holistic information access approach is context-sensitive, concept-based, and proactive. “Context-sensitive” means that the approach incorporates the characteristic...

An open innovation strategy is increasingly being adopted by firms in order to leverage external knowledge sources to solve internal problems. However, there are challenges for firms to implement this strategy such as needing to identify, motivate, and manage external sources of innovation. Thus, innovation intermediaries such as InnoCentive are being established to assist client firms (seekers...

The rapid deployment of wireless mesh networks across universities and enterprises, and the pervasiveness of mobile devices equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity, has resulted in a scenario wherein end users have the option to choose from a multitude of access points at any given location. Moreover, with the increasing availability of rich online content, there has been a steady increase in mobile I...

High dimensional data values are processed and optimized with feature selection process. A feature selection algorithm is constructed with the consideration of efficiency and effectiveness factors. The efficiency concerns the time required to find a subset of features. The effectiveness is related to the quality of the subset of features. 3 dimensional data models are constructed with object, a...

This paper examines the shifting role of perceived value and satisfaction in the formation of loyalty over the duration of a relationship life cycle. Drawing on a sample of online shoppers in Taiwan, the results show that the association between loyalty intention and shopping experiences conforms to an S-shaped growth curve. Customers’ intentions to stay with a website appear to be influenced b...