According to the firm life cycle theory, companies go through certain behavioral patterns in various stages of their life. A thorough understanding and recognition of these behavioral patterns, new investment in assets and the optimal use of assets can considerably enhance the capital productivity. In the current study, the relationship between the stages of firm life cycle and capital producti...

Background: The nursing students should acquire practical and theoretical competence required for the patients' care during their 4 years of education. This involves proper use of time. The purpose of this study was to investigate how nursing students manage their time despite the academic difficulties and obstacles. Methods: This qualitative study was carried out through grounded theory met...

In this report, the authors propose a method of designing behavioral patterns analogically. We applied this method to design a wavelike behavior of a robot arm based on the movement of a snake. In order for the behavioral pattern being designed by the analogical method to have more creativity, we introduced behavioral criteria to extend this behavior design method.

This chapter introduces the principles of sequence clustering and presents two case studies where the technique is used to discover behavioral patterns in event logs. In the first case study, the goal is to understand the way members of a software team perform their daily work, and the application of sequence clustering reveals a set of behavioral patterns that are related to some of the main p...

In-depth exploring of users’ actual behavioral patterns in e-Learning systems will be able to find out the limitations during their teaching/learning process and provide a good reference for intelligent system to provide auxiliaries to the process instantly. Instructional design (ID) is an important and highly complex behavior in the realm of teaching. This research adopted the sequential analy...

It is considered whether anomaly detection techniques might be used to determine potentially malicious behavior by service providers. Data mining techniques can be used to derive patterns of repeating behavior from logs of past interactions between service consumers and providers. Consumers may use these patterns to detect anomalous provider behavior, while providers may seek to adapt their beh...

Research on the stress response in reptiles can provide a useful comparative perspective for understanding how the constituent elements of the response can be put into service of diverse behavioral adaptations. A summary of the neural and endocrine causes and consequences of specific behavioral patterns seen in the small diurnal lizard, Anolis carolinensis, has provided a model for the explorat...

In this article, a novel CF (collaborative filtering)-based recommender system is developed for e-commerce sites. Unlike the conventional approach in which only binary purchase data are used, the proposed approach analyzes the data captured from the navigational and behavioral patterns of customers, estimates the preference levels of a customer for the products which are clicked but not purchas...

The purposes of this study were to provide a game-based anti-phishing lesson to 110 elementary school students in Taiwan, explore their learning behavioral patterns, and investigate the effects of the flow states on their learning behavioral patterns and learning achievement. The study recorded behaviour logs, and applied a preand post-test on phishing knowledge and a flow state measurement to ...