External influence

External Factors Affecting Second Language Motivation: The Role of Teacher Burnout and Family Influence

Motivation can be conceptualized as a dynamic process which is a key contributor to mastering a second language. This study used the L2-Motivational Self System as the basis for a conceptual framework for studying the effects of external factors on learners' motivation. In particular, the role of teachers and parents was studied as the external facets of predicting learners' motivation. One hun...

The Influence of External Variables on Information Technology Usage Behavior

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) predicts the user acceptance of end-user applications by specifying causal relationships among external variables, belief and attitudinal constructs, and actual usage behavior. Although the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use constructs have received much recent attention in the MIS literature, few studies have attempted to validate the fill TAM ...

Influence of external cues on syn- chronized Brain-Computer-Interfaces

Process Improvement: assessing the influence of external intervention

This paper presents the findings from a large-scale empirical investigation into the impact of external intervention into business process improvement using a hybrid model of knowledge transfer (KT). Through the utilization of a survey instrument with 696 respondents, the research explores the insights into a phased approached to sustainable external intervention. Analysis of the empirical data...

Disabling External Influence in Social Networks via Edge Recommendation

Existing socio-psychological studies suggest that users of a social network form their opinions relying on the opinions of their neighbors. According to DeGroot opinion formation model, one value of particular importance is the asymptotic consensus value 〈π,x〉— the sum of user opinions xi weighted by the users’ eigenvector centralities πi. This value plays the role of an attractor for the opini...