BACKGROUND With the invention of fitness trackers, it has been possible to continuously monitor a user's biometric data such as heart rates, number of footsteps taken, and amount of calories burned. This paper names the time series of these three types of biometric data, the user's "activeness", and investigates the feasibility in modeling and predicting the long-term activeness of the user. ...

We hypothesize that trust plays an important role in affecting the activeness and effectiveness of the global mutual fund industry. Empirically, trust is positively associated with the activeness of domestic funds, whereas for internationals mutual funds conducting cross-border investments activeness is bounded by the trust of lowtrust countries. In both cases, trust-related active share delive...

We applied the Input-Process-Output approach and Time, Interaction, and Performance theory to examine the input factors (organisational, group-related, and individual) and process factors (group production, group well-being, and member support) that yield group effectiveness, measured as highquality articles in Wikipedia. The results provided evidence of the positive effects of: group size and ...

With the rapid development and advancement of virtual communities and collaboration, it raises both opportunities and challenges for the online community members. Professional online communities have formed and flourished rapidly with the proliferation of network access in the past two decades. This study aims to explore the activeness of professional online community members by proposing a fra...

Actively seeking health services lies at the core of effective models of chronic disease self-management and contributes to promoting the utilization of allied health services (AHS). However, the use of AHS by ethnic minority Chinese, especially the elderly living in rural areas, has not received much attention. This study, therefore, aims to explore the association between personal characteris...

In this paper, the authors propose a software metric called Class Activeness Metric (CAM) which helps to determine the level of accessibility of the members of a class when it is instantiated as objects. Object interactions need to be straight forward as far as possible as complexity in these interactions can lead to time delays in accessing members not just confusing inheritance hierarchies. F...

A compositional method is presented for the verification of multi-agent systems. The advantages of the method are the well-structuredness of the proofs and the reusability of parts of these proofs in relation to reuse of components. The method is illustrated for an example multi-agent system, consisting of cooperative information gathering agents. This application of the verification method res...

A life pattern estimation method and its application to anomaly detection of a single elderly are proposed. Our observation system deploys some pyroelectric sensors in an elderly’s house and monitors and measures activities 24 hours a day to grasp residents’ life patterns. Activity data is successively forwarded to the nurse operation center and displayed to nurses at the center. The system rep...

This study aimed to observe the morphological characteristics of a PGLA [poly(glycolide-co-L-lactide)] nerve conduit and regenerated nerve bundle in the human body using high-frequency ultrasound and examine functional recovery of the regenerated nerve using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) after neural prosthesis with a PGLA nerve conduit. Thirty-nine patients underwent high-freque...

In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the Activeness of an Object Oriented Component Library (OOCL) and develop a special type of software metric called Component Activeness Quotient(CAQ) which is defined as the degree of readiness of an OOCL. The advantages of the CAQ include a possible comparison between various OOCL’s leading to selection of the best OOCL for use during the deve...