Showing papers in "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2011"

TL;DR: This paper found that emotional tweet percentage significantly negatively correlated with Dow Jones, NASDAQ and S&P 500, but displayed a significant positive correlation to VIX, and that just checking on twitter for emotional outbursts of any kind gives a predictor of how the stock market will be doing the next day.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of brand experiences to build long-lasting brand and customer relationship with brand trust, satisfaction, and loyalty were investigated with a field study conducted with actual consumers.

TL;DR: The information on the medicinal plants of the region for its availability to the researchers in different fields related to herbal drugs is presented.

TL;DR: This paper uses Data Mining to gain insight into the complex bike activity patterns at stations in bike-sharing systems to reveal imbalances in the distribution of bikes and lead to a better understanding of the system structure.

TL;DR: A headway-based platoon recognition algorithm is developed to identify pseudo-platoons given probe vehicles’ online information and a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) is solved to determine future optimal signal plans based on the current traffic controller status, online platoon data and priority requests from special vehicles, such as transit buses.

TL;DR: The basic elements and characteristic of mobile learning according to new trends in developing technology are described to better understand the underlying motivations that lead academics to adopting mobile learning elements and characteristics.

TL;DR: The main objective of this study is to identify and prioritize the potential ecotourism sites using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in Surat Thani Province, Thailand as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, road accident hot spots are evaluated and delineated in a South Indian city where inadequate development of land transport network often leads to traffic congestion and accidents, and the patterns of localization and distribution of hotspots are examined with the help of geo-information technology to bring out the influence of spatial and/or temporal factors in their formation.

TL;DR: Technological devices used in mobile learning and communication technologies are studied, and the relation and differences between m-learning and e-learning are put forth with their details.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether firms spend less money via social media to realize their marketing strategies comparing with traditional media as well as the importance of social media for the marketing area.

TL;DR: This article provided an overview of recent advances in research on motivation and attitude to learn language 2 (hereafter L2) and provided some implications for better language learning too. But they focused on descriptive and analytical approaches in order to clarify the role of attitude and motivation in language learning.

TL;DR: There is a significant but weak negative relationship between undergraduate students’ stress level and their academic achievement and it was found that the first-year students had low stress level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship among brand communication and service quality in a relational context with an emphasis on understanding of the linking role of brand trust and loyalty, and found that perceptions of brand communications and service/product quality can be viewed a antecedents to brand trust, in turn affects brand loyalty.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how students perceive the use of the social networking site Facebook for academic purposes and how / if they integrate it in their learning, training or other (extra) educational activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of e-commerce on international trade and employment and find that the gains are likely to be concentrated in developed countries in the short run but, developing countries will have more to benefit in the long run.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of self-efficacy, achievement motivation, and learning strategies on students' academic achievement has been investigated, and the authors have found that there is a lack of educational research on the above research components as an integrated motivational model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate if well-defined macroscopic relations exist for freeway network systems, by analyzing real data from Minnesota's freeways, and they show that freeway network system not only have curves with high scatter, but they also exhibit hysteresis phenomena, where higher network flows are observed for the same average network density in the onset and lower in the offset of congestion.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional correlation study was conducted to explore the correlation between academic motivation and academic achievement among Tehran University students, which indicated positive and significant correlation between Academic Motivation and Academic Achievement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between reward management system applications and employee performance of bank employees on global banks in Istanbul is investigated. And the role of motivation as an intervening factor is also discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between resilience, optimism and psychological well-being, and found that optimism played a minor mediation role in the relation between resilience and psychological wellbeing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the capabilities and limitations of mobile learning are discussed, which generally fall into three categories: psychological, pedagogical, and technical limitations, according to which most people prefer to listen to music, the radio news, or sports programs.

TL;DR: In this article, structural equation models were used to predict teacher OCB in a sample of 652 teachers and 131 principals and the most important finding of this study is the positive fit indexes of a modified model.

TL;DR: An integrated approach for the decision-making problem is proposed that combines the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE) and enables a careful evaluation of the identified policy scenarios.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of self-esteem on adolescents' Internet addiction was examined, and the results showed that general selfesteem, social self-easure, family-home selfe e ect ect ect, and total self e ect were significantly and negatively correlated with Internet addiction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure and morphology of industrial symbiosis networks and their patterns of interaction are investigated, and how this influences the outcomes of the collaboration, both in economic and environmental terms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the Facebook usage of students and also to learn which Facebook tools the participants preferred, finding that participants use Messages, Chat, Friends, Links, News and Photos tools are the most commonly used tools of Facebook.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed direct and indirect effects of emotional intelligence on occupational stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, and found that emotional intelligence does not have any direct or indirect effects on job satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss current perspectives and interpretations of region and regional identity, and reflect on how discourses on regional identity are currently being exploited in various institutional contexts, such as regional planning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of information sharing on information sharing and supply chain performance was investigated in a large-scale empirical study of 158 manufacturing firms in Turkey mainly Marmara Region, that were among the top 500 Turkish manufacturing firms of 2010 listed by Istanbul Chamber of Commerce.

TL;DR: Tanveer et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the factors behind language anxiety among the Iranian language learners both within the classroom and in the social context, and suggested a variety of strategies to cope with it.