“Good” and “bad” frictions in customer experience: Conceptual foundations and implications
Psychology &Marketing, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 21-43, January 2025.Abstract Businesses often strive for frictionless customer experiences, assuming that customers always desire seamless interactions. However, recent academic and practitioner discussions suggest that not all forms of friction are detrimental. Reconciling the conflicting views, we propose a framework that defines friction as simply the effort customers ...
Manjunath Padigar +2 more
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Referring Semantic Segmentation With Implicit Patch Aligned Distillation Learning
IET Image Processing, Volume 19, Issue 1, January/December 2025.The paper proposes a new approach, RiPAD, for open‐vocabulary semantic segmentation by leveraging CLIP's abilities. To implicitly align the image patch tokens with CLIP text embeddings, the region‐guided token association module is designed by a region proposal method, which estimates the class‐agonistic object‐ness.
Xiaohu Liu, Yichuang Luo, Wei Sun
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Traffic Signal Setting at Urban Junctions and Fundamental Diagram: A Before–After Study
Journal of Advanced Transportation, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.The paper analyses the effects of modifying traffic light regulations at urban road junctions, focussing on the ratio between green time and cycle time, as a function of vehicular traffic variables (flows, density and speed) on the links. The analyses are conducted in an urban setting using a before‐and‐after approach, employing traffic data detected ...
Borja Alonso +4 more
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Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 854-872, December 2024.Abstract Gay bars are closing in large numbers around the world, but institutional loss provides only a partial narrative for evaluating the larger field of nightlife. Drawing on 112 interviews, we argue that bar closures disrupted the field and consequently encouraged the visibility of alternate nightlife forms, called club nights.
Amin Ghaziani, Seth Abrutyn
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Endonormative stabilization in Philippine English lexis
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 555-570, December 2024.Abstract In the past 10 years, we have seen an enormous increase in the interest in Philippine English (PhilE) vocabulary. This is especially documented by the new entries of distinctive PhilE words in the Oxford English dictionary. Thanks to the rise of electronic mega‐corpora, such as GloWbE and the NOW Corpus, it has become possible to discover even
Thomas Biermeier
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Do-it-yourself corpora for LSP: Demystifying the process and illustrating the practice
Scripta Manent, 2019 This paper argues for an approach to LSP in which teachers and students compile their own do-it-yourself corpora using specialised texts in their area of study and teaching. I show that it is relatively easy to build a rough and ready corpus of this type
Maggie Charles
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A pan‐cancer analysis of Wnt family member 7B in human cancers
Cancer Innovation, Volume 3, Issue 5, October 2024.Previous studies have confirmed the important role of Wnt family member 7B (Wnt7B) in the formation of various cancers such as breast, pancreatic, and gastric cancers; however, studies on the specificity of Wnt7B in tumors are limited to certain specific cancers, and systematic pan‐cancer studies are lacking, and whether it can be used as a potential ...
Rui Wang +8 more
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Establishing a Contribution: Calibration, Contextualization, Construction and Creation
British Journal of Management, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 481-499, April 2025.
Barak S. Aharonson +14 more
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Language corpus and data driven learning (DDL) in language classrooms: A systematic review. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Lusta A, Demirel Ö, Mohammadzadeh B.
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DomainSenticNet: An Ontology and a Methodology Enabling Domain-Aware Sentic Computing. [PDF]
Cognit Comput, 2022 Distante D +4 more
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