Consumer use of mobile banking (M-Banking) in Saudi Arabia: Towards an integrated model

Mobile banking is one of the most promising technologies that has emerged in recent years and could prove to have considerable value to both banks and customers. Thus, this study recognises the need to test the main factors that could predict the use of mobile banking as well as how using such a system could contribute to both customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. The conceptual model of this study combines two models (i.e. UTAUT2 and the D&M IS Success Model). A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect the required data from convenience sampling of Saudi bank customers. The main factors – performance expectancy, price value, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, habit, system quality and service quality – were found to have a significant impact on actual use behaviour. This study was cross-sectional, therefore future studies should implement longitudinal studies in order to re-collect the findings. Further, this study adopted convenience sampling of Saudi M-Banking users. This may adversely impact the issue of generalisability to the whole population. The gap in the M-Banking literature in Saudi Arabia would be bridged by proposing a comprehensive conceptual model that scrupulously clarifies the use of M-Banking from the perspective of Saudi users. Furthermore, this study would consider the adoption of numeric data in order to inferentially analyse them using SEM. This in turn would assist in generalising the findings to the whole Saudi population.     

图书馆珍贵资料的开放数据化建设——以京都府图书馆藏明治时期以来旅游指南的数字化项目为例

近年来,日本有越来越多的图书馆开始尝试将馆藏珍贵文献资源进行数字化并在网上公开服务。但从数字人文学角度而言,这些资源存在着"使用范围与规范不明确""公开的数据格式不统一""数字资源的搜索手段不完善"等种种问题,因而可能无法为读者提供有效的服务。"京都府立图书馆珍贵文献收藏"项目是将京都府立图书馆馆藏珍贵文献进行数字化并在网上公开服务,于2019年3月推出第一期,内容为明治时期到战后期(第二次世界大战结束后联合国军占领时期)面向外国游客、以京都为主的城市观光指南。该项目采用了CC0协议(创作共用协议零权利协议)使用许可、DOI机制(数字对象唯一标识符)、IIIF(国际化图像互操作框架),均为世界标准,开创了日本图书馆领域的先河,今后将向全国推广。此次报告我将介绍本系统研发的过程、系统构建的细节。我们还询问了市民与人文学专家的实际使用感受、系统的使用效果与改善意见,也将一并向各位介绍。     

Mini-research Experience in Simple Linear Regression

Within the undergraduate mathematics curriculum, the topic of simple least-squares linear regression is often first encountered in multi-variable calculus where the line of best fit is obtained by using partial derivatives to find the slope and y-intercept of the line that minimizes the residual sum of squares. A markedly different approach from linear algebra, which could also be introduced in multi-variable calculus, obtains the regression line by vector projection. The latter viewpoint offers elegant proof of the equation relating the total, explained and unexplained variations. Consideration of data with the same regression line and correlation opens the door for a “mini-research experience” (MRE). A sequel MRE gives rise to an open Research Experience for Undergraduates topic to analyze reflection sequences and a fundamental connection between complex analysis and regression analysis. A few general guidelines and basic goals for MREs are included for those whose main interest is in undergraduate research.     

ISO9000与职业教育质量保障体系的构建

本文简要介绍了I S09000质量标准的基本思想及管理体系,探讨了在职业教育领域引入IS09000管理体系的适应性和可行性,提出可以借鉴IS09000的管理思想及方法,构建职业教育的质量保障体系.     

两个图论问题的0—1规划模型

引进图的覆盖向量和独立向量概念,以向量和矩阵为工具,把图的最小覆盖和最大对立集问题转化为0—1规划问题,从而给出了寻找图的最小覆盖和最大独立集的一个方法。     

重庆市主城区0～3岁婴儿教育问题调查与归因分析

本研究通过对重庆市主城区138名0-3岁婴儿及其带养者的调查与访谈发现,该地区剖腹产率高于自然分娩率;母乳喂养率较高,但喂养时间短;其他类型教养率高于亲子教养率;0-3岁婴儿社会适应性较强,但同伴交往少。晚婚晚育和主动放弃自然分娩,妇女就业率激增,对母乳营养的片面认识,独生子女家庭和封闭的居住环境等是导致上述问题的主要原因。     

SIEMENS 802D和FANUC 0数控系统子程序应用对比分析

采用对比的方法,介绍了SIEMENS 802D和FANUC 0系列数控系统在子程序应用中的异同点,通过对子程序命名、子程序结束指令及子程序调用的对比分析,编程人员对这两种系统的子程序应用一目了然,进而避免出现一些编程失误。     

徐连低山丘陵区土地资源的合理利用

徐连低山丘陵区光热水资源比较丰富，劳力充足，区位优越，但是目前土地利用不合理，水土流失较为严重。为了充分发挥该区的土地资源优势，搞好水土保持，保护生态环境，必须调整用地结构，扩大林地面积；建设一批稻麦、花生、研究、果品、用材料、牛、兔等商品生产基地，发展高产优质高效农业；同时加强工程措施，提高环境整治效益     

Beauty and Character: Values Beyond Beauty in Architecture

Formalist conceptions of aesthetic goals began to give way from the 17^th century on to rationalist accounts of experience. Beauty as described as essential by Renaissance thinkers was reconceived as just one possibility, with the sublime in Burke's account as another. In the early 20^th century Clive Bell again asserted a formalist position with his argument for significant form. The weakness of the formality position, and the need for a richer, more contextual account of aesthetic goals and experience is argued with reference to the idea of thick and thin concepts as applied by Bernard Williams to ethics, Wittgenstein's attention to the way in which language is used in a specific context, and Scruton's emphasis on an informed conception of the object of aesthetic attention. Beauty, in Alberti's procedural account if not in his version of the Platonic ideal, can be seen to continue to have critical value. The idea of character, however, offers a broader range of possibilities for experience and of goals for design.     

Connecting Teacher Beliefs to the Use of Children’s Literature in the Teaching of Mathematics

This article presents examples that illustrate how teachers use childrens literature in the teaching of mathematics. The examples are related to four curriculum ideologies that have influenced mathematics education in the USA for the last 75 years. It discusses why it is relevant to help teachers understand the ideological positions that influence their use of childrens literature during mathematics instruction, summarizes the four ideological positions, and presents results of a study of how teachers ideological positions relate to their use of childrens literature in the teaching of mathematics. The study examines two research questionsCan an instructional tool be developed that will highlight for teachers the different ways in which they and others use childrens literature to teach mathematics? and Can that instructional tool stimulate teacher discussion and reflection about their own beliefs and the ideological nature of the instructional environment in which they learned (as students) and teach (as teachers)? Study results indicate that both questions can be answered in the affirmative.