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This study examines the impact of emotional bias on entrepreneurial decisions in crowdfunding platforms, specifically considering the impact of mass shootings as exogenous emotional shocks. Using data from a leading crowdfunding platform, ...

In recent years, the development of technologies for causal inference with privacy preservation of distributed data has gained considerable attention. Many existing methods for distributed data focus on resolving the lack of subjects (samples) ...

• A privacy-preserving statistical causal inference method on distributed data.
• Our method can reduce both random errors and biases in treatment-effect estimation.
• Privacy of data is preserved by sharing only the intermediate ...

The significance of interdisciplinary learning has been well-recognized by higher education institutions. However, when teaching interdisciplinary learning to junior undergraduate students, their limited disciplinary knowledge and ...

The successful instructional design of self and peer assessment in higher education poses several challenges that instructors need to be aware of. One of these is the influence of students’ personalities on their intention to adopt ...

• Effect of personality traits on the acceptance of peer assessment (PA) in students.

Managing technical debt and developing easy-to-maintain software are very important aspects for technological companies. Integrated development environments (IDEs) and static measurement and analysis tools are used ...

• Training and raising developers’ awareness improve technical debt indicators.
• ...

Grade inflation has been the subject of concern and public debate in higher education. The current study examines the impact of grading rubric design on grading outcomes with two empirical studies, a Monte Carlo simulation study followed by a quasi-...

• Customers and vendors’ reviews theoretically differ in relationship orientation.

This paper investigates the effect of blinding—a policy on certain sharing-economy platforms to suppress online review reciprocation—on the content of reviews from both vendors and customers. While previous studies often focus on ...

To support designers considering human value in their design process, the HuValue tool was developed. This tool is instanciated as a tangible, card-based design toolkit including a value wheel, 45 value words, and 207 picture cards, grounded in a ...

A quasi-experiment was conducted to determine the effects of using the software GeoGebra as teaching aid on the achievement of Form Two students. The experimental study was conducted on 80 Form Two students, 40 of whom comprised the treatment ...

We2 present an overview of current research in the measurement of enjoyment in video games. We attempt to systematize the disparate approaches found with the vocabulary and constructs of quasi-experimentation. In each area, we try to make some ...

Research carried out in industrial contexts are recognized as important to the advancement of software engineering knowledge and practice. However, several challenges present themselves in the three key phases of ...

Models are a useful tool to increase the developer's productivity and satisfaction when performing maintenance tasks. However, in order to maximise these advantages, the right selection of notations must be made. Unfortunately, the software engineering ...

National culture influences natural language communication. Yet, semi-formal or documented communication media such as process models have largely ignored these influences. In process models, secondary notation elements such as colors, however, provides ...

Some online streaming sites allow viewers to choose what type of advertisements to watch.This study examined the effect of advertisement choice on viewers' expectations of the upcoming persuasive message.Female viewers had higher expectations than males ...

Model-driven Engineering (MDE) approaches are often acknowledged to improve the maintainability of the resulting applications. However, there is a scarcity of empirical evidence that backs their claimed benefits and limitations with respect to code-...

Evaluation has become a regular practice in the management of science, technology and innovation (ST&I) programs. Several methods have been developed to identify the results and impacts of programs of this kind. Most evaluations that adopt such an ...

With a substantial amount of resources being spent on online advertising, examining the effectiveness of online advertising is now an important subject for scholarly investigation. Cross-product integration has become a source of market advantage and a ...

This study investigates the question as to whether e-mail management training can alleviate the problem of time pressure linked to inadequate use of e-mail. A quasi-experiment was devised and carried out in an organizational setting to test the effect ...

This study compared the effects of two collaborative learning strategies (Open-ended and Task-based) with an individualized learning strategy on individual learning in a computer-based environment. The experiment sought ecological validity by conducting ...

We conducted a quasi-experiment to compare the characteristics of experts' and novices' test-driven development processes. Our novices were 11 computers science students who participated in an Extreme Programming lab course, the expert group consisted ...