Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether China's exports can effectively improve the global competitiveness of other BRICS countries' exports from the perspective of intra-BRICS export trade. Design/methodology/approach: ...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine whether the three principles in the SysTrust ® service converge on a single construct to measure potential users' trust in the reliability of a system, and whether trust in the reliability of a system, as defined by the three SysTrust...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether outside CEO directors sympathize with the company CEO due to their similar positions and prestige, and make decisions in favor of the company CEO. Specifically, the authors investigate how outside CEO directors serving on the...

The block transform video coder of H.265/HEVC has been formulated for a more flexible content representation to satisfy various implementation demands. Here three coefficient-scanning methods of diagonal, horizontal and vertical scan are employed for mapping a 2-D array to a 1-D vector for...

This paper proposes a method for achieving a high performance of N200 and P300 classification by applying independent component analysis to select the channels, which deliver brain signals with large N200 and P300 potentials and small artifacts. In this study, the authors find out the...