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An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia

Description: Knowledge is awareness or familiarity gained by experiences of facts, data, and situations. Knowledge management includes techniques and processes to represent, store, search, integrate, and analyze knowledge that is available in digital form. Ontology is a formal explicit specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest and it is a building block of the semantic web and formal description of knowledge. Ontologies capture the structure and knowledge about some domain of inter… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Hussen, Tijani; Beyene, Melkamu & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia

Description: This paper will report on a research to develop Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo (Afro-Asiatic language that belongs to North Omotic sub family in Ethiopia) using Hidden Markov Modeling technique. The portable and open source toolkit called Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Toolkit is used to perform the experiment. The development of HMM based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) requires both text and speech corpus for training and testing the HMM. In order to have a mo… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Asfaw, Zelalem & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Operative Data Governance Roadmaps for Business Process Management Success: The Role of Leadership and the Impact of Information Technology Adoption

Description: The unquestionable demand for data generation and consumption in organizations in this century prompt an increasingly notion of data as a valuable asset, provoking the urgency for reliable analysis and reporting of complex data assets towards a critical business decision making process. Computing languages like SQL, Sequential Query Language, Data Mining and Warehouse, and data visualization tools are some examples of how information technology is being applied to the problem solving strategy r… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel & Makani, Joyline
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Wisdom and Veterans: Enhance the Perspective, Experience, and Resilience of the Workforce

Description: Wisdom is defined as “a uniquely human quality demonstrated through an ability to apply self-insight, experience, and sound judgment in conjunction with applicable data, information, and knowledge to create a course of action leading to beneficial and productive decisions for both individuals and society” (Allen et al., 2020, p. 159). Using this definition as a foundation, this research explores how veterans use wisdom to enhance the workforce through perspective, experience, and resilience.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Allen, Jeff M., 1968-; Eaves, Tresia D.; Zimmerman, Tara; Rosellini, Amy; Njeri, Millicent & Khader, Malak
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Human Knowledge Problems, Knowledge Activities, and the Activities’ Effects

Description: Knowledge is the central component of knowledge management (KM); it comes into existence, is managed, and has effects through the activities performed upon it and the results of those activities. Much of the foundational KM literature identifies and classifies these activities (Baskerville, Dulipovici, 2006; Becerra-Fernandez, 2005; Evans, Ali, 2013; Evans, Dalkir, Bidian, 2014; Girard, Girard, 2015; Pee, Kankanhalli, 2009; Mohajan, 2016; Sajeva, 2010). We propose an extension of these activit… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Edgar, William B. & Albright, Kendra S.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Collaborative Governance and Social Innovation as Subsides to Public Governance

Description: It is understood that Social Innovation (SI) is at the service of society, building a positive social value. Collaborative governance favors the government, with characteristics for a better form of applicability of its theories. Therefore, this article aims to identify how collaborative governance and social innovation collaborate for better governance in the public sector.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Aparecida Prim, Márcia; Zschornack, Thiago; Felipe dos Santos, Adriana; Loth, Adriana Falcão; de Sa Freire, Patricia & Artur de Souza, João
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Corporate Governance in Public and Private Institutions - Differences and Similarities

Description: Emerged in the early 1990’s, governance is a construct which enables to broaden the management focus to a more comprehensive view, assessing efficiency capacity from different perspectives, such as social and political. Among its applications, Corporate Governance is the most known. In the private sector, governance has become a mandatory practice for companies aiming at increasing their market value or maintaining it high, due to the credibility earned by companies with good governance practic… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Loth, Adriana Falcão; Zschornack, Thiago; Espíndola, Ariane & de Sa Freire, Patricia
Partner: UNT College of Information
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COVID-19 and the Risk Management in the Basic Sanitation: Action for Mitigation of the Decurrent Impacts of the Pandemic

Description: The pandemic of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) has presented us a new world-wide reality. In a short time, huge changes had been necessary. In the sanitation it has not been different. For handle with essential services, in the majority through public concessions, the rendering of services has been strongly influenced for the chaotic economic situation, the necessity of cares with the health of the employees and for governmental decisions that restrict some activities. Thus, risk management becomes… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Zschornack, Thiago; Loth, Adriana Falcão; Pretto, Luana Siewert & de Sa Freire, Patricia
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Knowledge Management Based Best Practices of Higher Educational Institutes

Description: Knowledge Management Best Practices are established through leveraged Data Science Technique based on results found on published articles of reputed literature and both advertisements and news items of newspapers. Further, the recognition showed threats to the values of Higher Education such as the quality of courses. As such, a Postgraduate study is conducted to reveal a solution to those kinds of issues in Higher Education. Consequently, based on the proposal of literature to such issues in o… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Jeyarajan, S.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Global Sentiment Towards COVID-19 on Twitter

Description: Twitter is one of the major social media platforms highlighting public opinion. With over 330 million users across the globe, Twitter provides insights into global sentiments on many topics. One can estimate global sentiments towards certain events relating to COVID-19 by analyzing the most common phrases and their related sentiment scores from Twitter API data. This project has compiled the most used trigrams in tweets relating to COVID-19 to calculate sentiment scores for the period from Mar… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Auroni, Neil
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Innovation Indicators for Companies: A Systematic Review

Description: This paper aims to compile organizational innovation management indicators of papers that included some empirical step in the research and were published in the last 5 years (2015-2019). Based on PRISMA protocol, a systematic review was conducted and 356 indicators were extracted. They were categorized in 11 dimensions, following Dziallas & Blind (2019) previous literature research. The results make it possible to update the studies of innovation indicators at the organizational-level, filling … more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Bernard, André Peressoni & Aparecida Dandolini, Gertrudes
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Wisdom as it Exists in a Professional’s Life

Description: Recent years have seen the development of quite a few measures of wisdom (e.g. Ardelt (2003); Glück (2017); Staudinger and Pasupathi (2003); Sternberg (1998); Webster (2003)). With a focus on information professionals working in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector, this study is unique in the way it translated the quantitative measures used in previous study into a qualitative instrument that can allow wisdom aspects to be explored through interviews. Thus the purpose … more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Qayyum, M. Asim; Khan, Arif & Redshaw, Sarah
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Aspectos Que Incutem Em Um Modelo Inovativo De Transformaçáo Agricola Digital No Brasil

Description: The dynamics proposed by the information and communication technologies enter economic sectors and require new behaviors. Digital Agriculture is a way to adapt to the new scenario. However, the modernization movement requires that views on agricultural industries be compensated.
Date: December 2020
Creator: França, Renata; Corrêa, Fábio; de Araújo Nery Ribeiro, Jurema Suely; Ferreira, Eric & Ziviani, Fabrício
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Trends of Knowledge Sharing in Communities of Practice (COP) in University Libraries: Library and Information Science Professionals’ Perspectives

Description: This study considers Communities of Practice as a group of library and information science professionals who share their common interests and problems on a topic in order to exchange their expertise and knowledge on that topic. The study sheds lights on the ways of knowledge sharing, and assess the reasons of knowledge sharing of LIS professionals through Communities of Practice in the context of university libraries in Bangladesh.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Roy, Samgeeta; Ali Akanda, A. K. M. Eamin; Hasan, Md Nazmul; Islam, Md. Mahbubul; Haque, Md. Armanul; Roy, Partha Biplob et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Intellectual Capital Creates Value for the Organization - What About Other Stakeholders?

Description: The ever-increasing market turbulence has turned today’s corporate landscape more competitive and complex. Particularly during the last two decades, the increased utilization of ICT systems and technologies globally transformed the services sector in terms of ease of business processes and improved client service delivery. However, in the current knowledge-based era, ICT-enabled systems and tools would only be meaningful if these are appropriately utilized by the knowledgeable and skilled workf… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Rehman, Junaid; Hawryszkiewycz, Igor; Sohaib, Osama & Namisango, Fatuma
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The Impact of Cognitive Styles on Different Stages of Knowledge Management Cycle

Description: While explicit knowledge can be to some extent separated from human brain and stored in organizational memory, tacit knowledge cannot be detached from the individuals who possess it, therefore its management cannot rely primarily on technologies. This calls for knowledge-worker centered approach. Individuals with different cognitive styles process information differently and use a variety of reasoning patterns for decision making and building their personal knowledge bases. The paper overviews … more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Pluzhenskaya, Marina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Investigation of Differences in Sentiment from Tweets Related to COVID-19 Between Canada and US Residents

Description: This study aims to understand how individuals communicated and acknowledged to COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. It mainly focused on identifying and demonstrating the differences in the perspective of United States and Canadian residents.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Gone, Keshava Pallavi & Conrad, Colin
Partner: UNT College of Information
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