More is known about the pervasiveness of college cheating than reasons why students cheat. This article reports the results of a study that applied the theory of reasoned action and partial least squares methodology to analyze the responses of 144 students to a survey on cheating behavior. Approximately 60% of the business students and 64% of the non-business students admitted to such behavior....

Assessing the quality of a delivered system has been one of the major challenges for researchers as well as for the practitioners (organizations). There is the need of a multidimensional instrument capable of measuring the quality of an information system, that instrument would provide valid information that helps an organization to take decisions in order to improve and assure the quality of i...

Semantic Indexing based on Partial Least Squares (SIPLS) is an effective feature extraction method for text classification. SIPLS integrates the global category information Y with the document-class matrix X to create the latent semantic spaces. However, the global latent space may not be the optimal one for each class. To solve this problem, the Local SIPLS (LSIPLS) method is proposed which cr...

Iron is an essential element used as supplement in different dosage-forms. Different time and expenditure-consuming methods introduced for detection and determination of elemental ions such as atomic absorption. In this research, two different and routine methods containing ATR-IR and atomic absorption were applied to define the amount of iron in 198 samples containing different concentrations ...

We apply computer vision methods to the task of automatically predicting human attractiveness from frontal face images. A dataset of thousands of images and corresponding scores was obtained from a popular website that asks viewers to rate the attractiveness of the people appearing in the images. We applied several kernel regression techniques to the problem and found that while all techniques ...

This research-in-progress paper proposes the use of a statistical approach named Partial Least squares (PLS) to define the relationships between Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for ERP implementation projects. Some researchers have noted that there are relationships between these CSFs. However, no one has yet tried to define in a formal way these relationships. In this paper we present an overv...

(1) Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, MNCN-CSIC. Serrano 115B., E-28006 Madrid, Spain., (2) Facultad de Química, Universidad de la Laguna. Avda. Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez s/n. E-38206 La Laguna, Spain., (3) Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología, CSIC. P.O. Box 1052, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain., (4) Instituto de Química Orgánica General, CSIC. Juan de la Cierva 3, E-28006 Madrid, Sp...

Many studies uphold market orientation as a key factor in creating and sustaining a firm’s competitive advantage. The present research model explores this topic further by including within the model the links between organizations’ innovation outcomes, its process of organizational unlearning and business performance. In particular, the model empirically tests the mediating role of innovation o...

Textural attributes of cooked rice (100 samples) were predicted using pasting properties. Two textural attributes (hardness and stickiness) were evaluated by a texture analyzer and seven pasting-property parameters as well as profile data measured by a rapid visco-analyzer (RVA) were used to evaluate predictive models of the textural attributes using Partial Least Squares Regression. The textur...