Browsing by Publisher "EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD"
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Collaborative design of an active learning classroom with high school students and teachers
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Publisher and Date:(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2020)Purpose - The aim of this study is to understand classroom settings desired by high school students and teachers in an active learning classroom. The research question is whether students and teachers will differ from each other when designing an active learning classroom. Design/methodology/approach - In an effort to design a learning environment for an advanced placement programme, action research methodology was followed by conducting a participatory workshop in a real active learning classroom ...
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A comparison study of fuzzy-based multiple-criteria decision-making methods to evaluating green concept alternatives in a new product development environment
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Publisher and Date:(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2021)Purpose In this paper, the four popular multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods in fuzzy environment are utilized to reflect the vagueness and uncertainty on the judgments of decision-makers (DMs), because the crisp pairwise comparison in these conventional MCDM methods seems to be insufficient and imprecise to capture the right judgments of DMs. Of these methods, as Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (F-AHP) is used to calculate criteria weights, the other methods; Fuzzy Technique for Order ...
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Fuzzy AHP-GRA approach to evaluating energy sources: a case of Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2020)Purpose Since the demand for energy has dramatically increased in the countries which have fast-growing population and economy, they have faced with a critical problem of how to evaluate a set of potential energy sources (i.e. nuclear, natural gas, bio, geothermal, hydro, wind and solar) and choose the ultimate energy source for their needs. On the other hand, this critical problem turns into a multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) in the presence of a set of energy source alternatives and ...
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Understanding the relationship between university characteristics and prestige
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Publisher and Date:(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2021)Purpose Being a prestigious institution depends on gaining respect in the eyes of various stakeholders with diverse expectations. Existing research is silent on how university characteristics affect judgments of prestige and, therefore, presents an incomplete picture of prestige dynamics in higher education. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature by empirically examining the stakeholders' evaluation of university characteristics in terms of prestige value. Design/methodology/ap ...
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Understanding users' behavioral intention to use voice assistants on smartphones through the integrated model of user satisfaction and technology acceptance: a survey approach
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Publisher and Date:(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2021)Purpose This study aims to determine system quality (SQ) and information quality (IQ) characteristics of voice assistants (VA) on smartphones that are affecting users' satisfaction and technology acceptance, and how these affect behavioral intention (BI) to use. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the integrated model of user satisfaction and technology acceptance to evaluate users' behavioral intention to use VAs on smartphones. The model represents a causal chain from the key characteristics ...
