Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, whether an employee training program can enhance the collective perception of empowerment of work units within an organization. The authors hypothesized that training participation relates to empowerment by enhancing the potency, meaningfulness, impact, and autonomy of the employees. Design/methodology/approach – Th...

ISSN 0085-7130 ©Telenor ASA 2007 Background Humans have practised gambling at all times. The archaeologists have made excavations in prehistoric sites and found large numbers of roughly dice-shaped bones. Different types of games, sports events, other types of events and gambling are connected because it has always been challenging to make bets on different outcomes of a game. Experiences and s...

Abstract Introduction Metabolic impairments and sleep disruptions are both recognized as modifiable risk factors in the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A bidirectional relationship exists between AD where pathology can disrupt sleep, but disturbances also increase AD-related pathology. This results a feed-forward cycle progression further impairments. Sleep fragmentation poor quality c...

Before Internet consumers make buying decisions, several psychological factors come into effect and reflect individual preferences on products. In this paper, the authors investigate four integrated streams: 1) recognizing the psychological factors that affect Internet consumers, 2) understanding the relationship between businesses’ e-marketing mix and Internet consumers’ psychological factors,...

Credit scoring is an important topic for businesses and socio-economic establishments collecting huge amounts of data, with the intention of making the wrong decision obsolete. In this paper, the authors propose four approaches that combine four well-known classifiers, such as K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Back-Propagation Network (BPN) and Extreme Learning Machine (EL...

Researching the vulnerabilities and security concerns of WinCE-based Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) in an 802.11 wireless environment resulted in identifying CAN-2001-{0158 to 0163}. The full understanding and demonstration of some vulnerabilities would have required reverse engineering ActiveSync, which was beyond the scope of this research. Moreover, the WinCE IP stack demonstrated unstab...

Leg ulcers are a chronic manifestation of sickle-cell disease (SCD) and are often painful, disabling, and difficult to treat. RGD peptide matrix treatment is a novel therapy designed to provide a topical synthetic extracellular matrix that can act as a temporary substitute for the damaged natural matrix at the ulcer site. In this randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, prospective, multic...

Abstract Introduction Most of the current automatic polysomnography sleep staging methods use multi-signal data and require a sequence preceding following epochs to score stage specific epoch, which may not be desirable for analysis in real-time and/or free-living conditions. We developed deep learning-based algorithm, namely SleepInceptionNet, that is designed each epoch using only single-chan...