Recently Kaasa (2021) has developed a Cultural Models Synthesis Scheme (CMSS) merging together the cultural models of Hofstede, Schwartz and Inglehart. However, this theoretical framework still needs to be complemented by an empirical analysis. This exploratory study focuses on Schwartz’s model using ten-item battery in World Values Survey (WVS) inspired his questionnaire. We empirically positi...

A crucial part for facial expression analysis is to capture a face deformation. In this work, we are interested by the employment of 3D facial surface normals (3DFSN) to classify six basic facial expressions and the proposed approach was employed on the Bosphorus database. We constructed a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to capture variations in facial shape due to changes in expressions usi...

The extent of contamination of fish in the Mid-Atlantic Region was evaluated as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Monitoring and Assessment Program's regional assessment in 1993 through 1994. Fish assemblages from wadeable streams were dominated by small, short-lived fishes (e.g., minnows, darters, and sculpins) that were more widely distributed and abundant than large fishes t...

The Work Volition Scale (WVS) is a brief measure of the perceived capacity to make career decisions despite constraints; however, systematic validation item responses scale still in its infancy. present article reports on research conducted investigate latent structure WVS, invariance across gender, and mean differences work volition income sample retail workers. A bifactor WVS accounted for co...

National innovation systems (NIS) are generally perceived as a set of interconnected organizations (or structures) that domestically produce and commercially implement scientific knowledge technology. The development any national system is the key element for shaping up values in every country. Our paper identifies trends global technological scope associated with formation economic relations, ...

This paper developed an approach, the window-based validation set for support vector data description (WVS-SVDD), to determine optimal parameters for support vector data description (SVDD) model to map specific land cover by integrating training and window-based validation sets. Compared to the conventional approach where the validation set included target and outlier pixels selected visually a...

This study mainly examines the relationship between generalized/horizontal/social trust and economic growth in countries Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, considering substantial decline their values since 2005. The utilizes a multiple linear regression model based on panel data comprising 104 over period from 1999 to 2020. Trust were obtained last four waves of World Values Survey (WVS)....

Most poxviruses produce multiple types of virions: intracellular mature virions (MVs), wrapped virions (WVs), and extracellular virions (EVs). The EVs represent the culmination of a morphogenetic pathway including the development of MVs, which are then transformed into WVs, and finally transformed into EVs. Each EV consists of one form of MV wrapped within a second lipid membrane containing at ...

Sustainability gets higher on the policy agenda of many countries in terms UN Sustainable Development Goals. Unethical tax behaviour diminishes system’s sustainability, but paying taxes is necessary if we want to contribute society. There a deeper need understand factors that influence taxpayers’ perceptions, personal values and culture. Previous research by OECD (2013, 2019) using World Values...