Business Intelligence Capabilities and Firm Performance: A Study in China

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology expands the boundary of business practice, inducing the emergence and application of business intelligence (BI) that has promoted the transformation of information techniques to optimize business decision and operation. However, there is a lack of theoretical consensus and measurement of the technology embedded in BI at present. This study exploratively develops the Sense-Transform-Drive (STD) conceptual model of BI based on dynamic capabilities theory and organizational evolutionary theory to explain the core BI capabilities. By using factoring analysis and structural equation modeling analysis, we extract the latent constructs and empirically verify the validity of the STD model and further examine the correlation and mode of interaction of the three core BI capabilities and the impact of BI application on firm performance in the real economy with a sample contextual to Chinese business practices. The study results show that there are direct and high-intensity cumulative positive effects among the structural components of the STD conceptual model and BI-related dynamic capabilities can enhance operating efficiency and firm performance.     

Exploring Verbal,Visual and Schematic Learners' Static and Dynamic Mental Images of Scientific Species and Processes in Relation to Their Spatial Ability

The current study compared different learners’ static and dynamic mental images of unseen scientific species and processes in relation to their spatial ability. Learners were classified into verbal, visual and schematic. Dynamic images were classified into: appearing/disappearing, linear-movement, and rotation. Two types of scientific entities and their related processes were investigated: astronomical and microscopic. The sample included 79 female students from Grades 9 and 10. For the purpose of the study, three instruments were used. The Mental Images by Guided Imagery instrument was designed to investigate participants' visualization of static and dynamic mental images. The Water-Level Task was adopted to estimate participants' spatial ability. The Learning Styles Inventory was used to classify participants into verbal, visual and schematic learners. The research findings suggest that schematic learners outperformed verbal and visual learners in their spatial ability. They also outperformed them in their vividness of microscopic images; both micro-static and micro-dynamic images; especially in the case of appearing/disappearing images. The differences were not significant in the case of astronomical images. The results also indicate that appearing/disappearing images received the least vividness scores for all three types of learners.     

Structural dynamic responses analysis applying differential quadrature method

INTRODUCTION The differential quadrature method (DQM) was proposed by Bellman and Casti as an analogous ex- tension of the quadrature method for integrals (Bellman and Casti, 1971; Bellman et al., 1972). It can be essentially expressed as the values of the de- rivatives at each grid point as weighted linear sums approximately of the function values at all grid points within the domain under consideration. As a distinct numerical solution technique to obtain the initial and/or boundary …     

从词义角度谈现在进行时言外之意

英语时态形式与意义不一致的现象是广大英语学习者在英语应用中很容易产生错误的地方。时态的意义和用法并不能以时态形式笼统解释。现在进行时不表示"正在进行"的原因正是动词本身的词义所决定的。根据词义,动词有静态动词和动态动词之分,现在进行时除表示"现在正在进行"的行为动作以外,还包括表示"过去"、"将来"、"渐进"、"重复"、"临时"、"描述"等意义。     

企业经营者和生产者尽忠问题的动态博弈分析

本文在对不完全信息下的股东与经营者、经营者与生产者之间的动态行为进行了博弈分析,揭示了促使经营者尽力和生产者用心的机制。     

B/S架构中基于HTML组件的WEB打印技术

一直以来B/S架构下的打印问题都是B/S系统开发中的难题,本文逐一对现有B/S架构打印方法进行了分析,针对它们的缺陷,提出丁一种基于HTML组件的更有效和更精确的打印方法,详细介绍了其原理,并给出了具体的实现方法,实践表明该方法使用效果良好.     

Flow shop rescheduling problem under rush orders

INTRODUCTION Rescheduling problem in manufacturing system is considered as a particularly hard combinatorial optimization problem,closely related with uncer-tainty caused by exterior business environment and interior production conditions.Production resched-uling is a common practice in manufacturing compa-nies all over the world.Four sources of production disturbances have been identified:(1)incorrect work;(2)machine breakdowns;(3)rework due to quality problem;and(4)rush orders(Rangsarit…     

A framework of region-based dynamic image fusion

INTRODUCTION Image fusion is a sub-area of more general topics of Information Fusion and Data Fusion and deals with static images and dynamic images (image sequences or video data) (Maitre and Bloch, 1997). By com-bining the information from a range of image data obtained by different sensors or the same sensor with different imaging schemes, the composite image al-ways presents the complementary information of different input images at the same time and provides us the integrated descr…     

“有效性”视域下华语教学若干问题的思考

华语教学是特殊的二语教学,其最终目的是培养华裔青少年具有在现实生活中自由运用华语进行交际的语言能力。但当前,一些认识因素、教学因素和环境因素严重制约着华语教学的“有效性”,只有实现华语教学目标的综合化、教学过程的交际动态化、教学方法的多元化和教学环境营造的多样化,才是促进华语教学的健康发展、提高华语教学“有效性”的必然选择。     

顾客关系动态管理模型研究

本文研究和建立了顾客关系动态管理模型——用于预测顾客与公司的未来关系。该模型引入了除顾客总体满意度之外的顾客未来想法变量。理解和管理顾客未来想法对于成功管理顾客动态关系是至关重要的。