The Global Information Technology Report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has employed networked readiness index (NRI) to measure the global competitiveness of a country’s information and communication technologies (ICT) diffusion. The final NRI overall scores were measured by an arithmetic mean aggregation of the composite pillars scores, which implicitly assumed that all the pillars...

Several theorists advocate the application of relationship marketing concepts to the not-for-profit organisation (NPO) sector. The authors build on these contributions to adapt and extend the Morgan and Hunt [J. Mark. 58 (1994) 20] commitment– trust model to the NPO sector. The proposed model is applied to the relationship between an NPO and its organisational funders and is empirically tested....

The aim of this research is to advance both the theoretical conceptualization and the empirical validation of trustworthiness in mHealth (mobile health) information services research. Conceptually, it extends this line of research by reframing trustworthiness as a hierarchical, reflective construct, incorporating ability, benevolence, integrity, and predictability. Empirically, it confirms that...

the potential of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (nirs) as a fast method to predict the crude protein (cp) and moisture (m) content in fishmeal by scanning spectra between 1000 and 2500 nm using multivariate regression technique based on partial least squares (pls) was evaluated. the coefficient of determination in calibration (r2c) and standard error of calibration (sec) were 0.95 and 1...

Partial Least Squares (PLS) is a widely used technique in chemometrics, especially in the case where the number of independent variables is significantly larger than the number of data points. There are many articles on PLS [HTF01, GK86] but the mathematical details of PLS do not always come out clearly in these treatments. This paper is an attempt to describe PLS in precise and simple mathemat...

This paper proposes a structural model to analyze the relationships between drivers of internalization of quality standards, internalization of quality standards, and performance in the Spanish tourism industry. First, the paper proposes hypotheses based on previous studies about internalization of quality standards and then measures to test the research model using partial least squares (PLS) ...