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Publication date: 2 July 2020

Haixia Li, Yongrong Wang and Zhian Chen

Graduated compression shaping pants (GCSPs) are shapewears sharing the same action mechanisms as medical compression stockings (MCSs), setting four stages of pressure on lower…

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Purpose

Graduated compression shaping pants (GCSPs) are shapewears sharing the same action mechanisms as medical compression stockings (MCSs), setting four stages of pressure on lower limbs that gradually decreasing from the ankle to the thigh root. They are claimed to be able to not only shaping bodies but also promoting blood circulation in legs. However, there are few studies on whether GCSPs perform the advertised functions and how effective GCSPs could be. The purpose of this paper is to explore and evaluate the pressure distribution and body-shaping effectivity of GCSPs.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors first select two graduated compression shaping pants (GCSPs-A, GCSPs-B) and a pair of professional shaping pants as the Controls. Then objective pressure test and 3D body scanning test are conducted. Finally, the pressure distribution and body-shaping effectivity are demonstrated by ORIGIN and MATLAB, compared with controls.

Findings

GCSPs-A perform significant body-shaping effectivity at the calf, thigh and thigh root, which are less effective than the Controls. The body-shaping effectivity of GCSPs-B is predicted weaker than GCSPs-A at the calf and thigh, while better at the thigh root. Both GCSPs-A and GCSPs-B show gradual pressure, which could be classified into Class I or II of MCSs. Comprehensively, GCSPs-A are superior than GCSPs-B.

Originality/value

In this paper, authors evaluate the pressure distribution and body-shaping effectivity of GCSPs, which could provide guidance for enterprises to further optimize and produce GCSPs, performing better functions that meet consumers' needs better.

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International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, vol. 33 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-6222

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Publication date: 17 October 2008

Haixia Li, He Lin, Yongli Li and Aiping Wu

In order to study granularity, this paper aims to discuss how to construct granules from the view of panweighted field of pansystem.

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Purpose

In order to study granularity, this paper aims to discuss how to construct granules from the view of panweighted field of pansystem.

Design/methodology/approach

By changing the panweights of panweighted field – subdivision of panweights, increase/decrease of panweights and reallocating panweights, to construct proper granules is the approach taken.

Findings

This paper provides a new method of studying granularity. If the weights of panweighted field are subdivided, then the granularity diminishes; if the panweights of panweighted field are increased, then the corresponding granularity diminished. Contrarily, the decrease of panweights of panweighted field results in the corresponding granularity increased; by reallocating panweights, use different method to construct different granules, such as compatible class, neighbor operator, compatible core, s‐s core and so on.

Research limitations/implications

How to reallocate panweights is the main limitation.

Practical implications

A very useful advice for studying granularity.

Originality/value

This paper combines the granularity with panweighted field of pansystem, and studies granularity from the view of panweighted field of pansystems.

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Kybernetes, vol. 37 no. 9/10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 19 February 2018

Debin Fang, Haixia Yang, Baojun Gao and Xiaojun Li

Discovering the research topics and trends from a large quantity of library electronic references is essential for scientific research. Current research of this kind mainly…

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Purpose

Discovering the research topics and trends from a large quantity of library electronic references is essential for scientific research. Current research of this kind mainly depends on human justification. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to identify research topics and evolution in trends from library electronic references efficiently and effectively by employing automatic text analysis algorithms.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors used the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), a probabilistic generative topic model to extract the latent topic from the large quantity of research abstracts. Then, the authors conducted a regression analysis on the document-topic distributions generated by LDA to identify hot and cold topics.

Findings

First, this paper discovers 32 significant research topics from the abstracts of 3,737 articles published in the six top accounting journals during the period of 1992-2014. Second, based on the document-topic distributions generated by LDA, the authors identified seven hot topics and six cold topics from the 32 topics.

Originality/value

The topics discovered by LDA are highly consistent with the topics identified by human experts, indicating the validity and effectiveness of the methodology. Therefore, this paper provides novel knowledge to the accounting literature and demonstrates a methodology and process for topic discovery with lower cost and higher efficiency than the current methods.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 36 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 4 June 2021

Miao Tian, Ying Cui, Haixia Long and Junxia Li

In novelty detection, the autoencoder based image reconstruction strategy is one of the mainstream solutions. The basic idea is that once the autoencoder is trained on normal…

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Purpose

In novelty detection, the autoencoder based image reconstruction strategy is one of the mainstream solutions. The basic idea is that once the autoencoder is trained on normal data, it has a low reconstruction error on normal data. However, when faced with complex natural images, the conventional pixel-level reconstruction becomes poor and does not show the promising results. This paper aims to provide a new method for improving the performance of novelty detection based autoencoder.

Design/methodology/approach

To solve the problem that conventional pixel-level reconstruction cannot effectively extract the global semantic information of the image, a novel model with the combination of attention mechanism and self-supervised learning method is proposed. First, an auxiliary task, reconstruct rotated image, is set to enable the network to learn global semantic feature information. Then, the channel attention mechanism is introduced to perform adaptive feature refinement on the intermediate feature map to optimize the correspondingly passed feature map.

Findings

Experimental results on three public data sets show that the proposed method has potential performance for novelty detection.

Originality/value

This study explores the ability of self-supervised learning methods and attention mechanism to extract features on a single class of images. In this way, the performance of novelty detection can be improved.

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Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application, vol. 48 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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Publication date: 29 November 2024

Yannian Wu, Euisoo Kim, James J. Zhang, Fengyan Li and Haixia Duan

Grounded in social cognitive theory, social exchange theory and “cognition-emotion-behavior intention” analysis framework, a theoretical model of cause-related sport marketing…

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Purpose

Grounded in social cognitive theory, social exchange theory and “cognition-emotion-behavior intention” analysis framework, a theoretical model of cause-related sport marketing (CRSM) affecting consumers’ purchase intentions was constructed through a case study. This model was then empirically validated to confirm CRSM's impact on consumers' purchase intentions.

Design/methodology/approach

This study embraces a mixed-methods approach that combines both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to investigate the mechanisms through which CRSM influences consumers' purchase intentions.

Findings

The results indicate that: (1) consumers’ perception of CRSM has no direct impact on purchase intentions; (2) consumers’ perception of CRSM directly affects gratitude; (3) consumer gratitude acts as a complete mediator between perceived CRSM and purchase intentions.

Originality/value

These findings shed light on the role of gratitude in CRSM and offer practical guidance for sports enterprises in improving their philanthropic marketing strategies.

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Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-5855

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Publication date: 6 August 2024

Haixia Yuan, Kevin Lu, Ali Ausaf and Mohan Zhu

As an emerging video comment feature, danmaku is gaining more traction and increasing user interaction, thereby altering user engagement. However, existing research seldom…

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Purpose

As an emerging video comment feature, danmaku is gaining more traction and increasing user interaction, thereby altering user engagement. However, existing research seldom explores how the effectiveness of danmaku on user engagement varies over time. To address this research gap, this study proposes a comprehensive framework drawing on social presence theory and information overload theory. The framework aims to explain how the effectiveness of danmaku in increasing user engagement changes over shorter time intervals.

Design/methodology/approach

A research model was proposed and empirically tested using data collected from 1,019 movies via Bilibili.com, one of China’s most popular danmaku video platforms. A time-varying effect model (TVEM) was used to examine the proposed research model.

Findings

The study finds that the volume of danmaku and its valence exert a time-varying influence on user engagement. Notably, the study shows that danmaku volume plays a more substantial role in determining user engagement than danmaku valence.

Originality/value

This research offers theoretical insights into the dynamic impact of danmaku on user engagement. The innovative conceptualization and measurement of user engagement advance research on pseudo-synchronous communication engagement. Furthermore, this study offers practical guidelines for effectively managing danmaku comments on online video platforms.

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Internet Research, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1066-2243

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Publication date: 6 August 2018

Haixia Wang, Xiao Lu, Wei Cui, Zhiguo Zhang, Yuxia Li and Chunyang Sheng

Developing general closed-form solutions for six-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) serial robots is a significant challenge. This paper thus aims to present a general solution for six-DOF…

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Purpose

Developing general closed-form solutions for six-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) serial robots is a significant challenge. This paper thus aims to present a general solution for six-DOF robots based on the product of exponentials model, which adapts to a class of robots satisfying the Pieper criterion with two parallel or intersecting axes among its first three axes.

Design/methodology/approach

The proposed solution can be represented as uniform expressions by using geometrical properties and a modified Paden–Kahan sub-problem, which mainly adopts the screw theory.

Findings

A simulation and experiments validated the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed method (general resolution for six-DOF robots based on the product of exponentials model).

Originality/value

The Rodrigues rotation formula is additionally used to turn the complex problem into a solvable trigonometric function and uniformly express six solutions using two formulas.

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Publication date: 3 December 2018

Qiuping Wang, Subing Liu and Haixia Yan

Due to high efficiency and low carbon of natural gas, the consumption of natural gas is increasing rapidly, and the prediction of natural gas consumption has become the focus. The…

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Purpose

Due to high efficiency and low carbon of natural gas, the consumption of natural gas is increasing rapidly, and the prediction of natural gas consumption has become the focus. The purpose of this paper is to employ a prediction technique by combining grey prediction model and trigonometric residual modification for predicting average per capita natural gas consumption of households in China.

Design/methodology/approach

The GM(1,1) model is utilised to obtain the tendency term, then the generalised trigonometric model is used to catch the periodic phenomenon from the residual data of GM(1,1) model for improving predicting accuracy.

Findings

The case verified the view of Xie and Liu: “When the value of a is less, DGM model and GM(1,1) model can substitute each other.” The combination of the GM(1,1) and the trigonometric residual modification technique can observably improve the predicting accuracy of average per capita natural gas consumption of households in China. The mean absolute percentage errors of GM(1,1) model, DGM(1,1), unbiased grey forecasting model, and TGM model in ex post testing stage (from 2013 to 2015) are 32.5510, 33.5985, 36.9980, and 5.2996 per cent, respectively. The TGM model is suitable for the prediction of average per capita natural gas consumption of households in China.

Practical implications

According to the historical data of average per capita natural gas consumption of households in China, the authors construct GM(1,1) model, DGM(1,1) model, unbiased grey forecasting model, and GM(1,1) model with trigonometric residual modification. The accuracy of TGM is the best. TGM helps to improve the accuracy of GM(1,1).

Originality/value

This paper gives a successful practical application of grey model GM(1,1) with the trigonometric residual modification, where the cyclic variations exist in the residual series. The case demonstrates the effectiveness of trigonometric grey prediction model, which is helpful to understand the modeling mechanism of trigonometric grey prediction model.

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Publication date: 9 November 2023

Lubing Lyu and Haixia Zhao

This paper aims to study the interplay between a risk-averse national brand manufacturer's (NBM) selling mode decision and a risk-neutral e-platform's private brand (PB…

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Purpose

This paper aims to study the interplay between a risk-averse national brand manufacturer's (NBM) selling mode decision and a risk-neutral e-platform's private brand (PB) introduction decision.

Design/methodology/approach

A game theory model is used to solve selling mode decision, that is whether transform the selling mode from the wholesale mode to the marketplace mode, and PB introduction decision, that is, whether introduce the PB.

Findings

The results show that for the NBM, under certain condition, the NBM's selling mode decision is not affected by the e-platform's PB introduction decision. High revenue-sharing rate is conducive only when the difference in consumer preference between the PB and the national brand (NB) is small. The NBM's risk aversion will improve the applicability of the marketplace mode. For the e-platform, high PB preference of consumers and risk-averse behavior of the NBM is not conducive to PB introduction. For the supply chain, scenarios that the NB monopolizes the market under the wholesale mode and PB introduction under the marketplace mode should be prevented. PB introduction under the wholesale mode will become the only equilibrium with the increase of risk aversion of the NBM. Finally, the authors extend the scenario that consumers prefer the PB and the e-platform is risk-averse enterprise and find that PB introduction under the wholesale mode is detrimental to the NBM but beneficial to the supply chain. The impact of consumers' PB preference on the e-platform's PB introduction is opposite to the basic model. The impact of the e-platform's risk aversion on game equilibrium is opposite to that of the NBM's risk aversion.

Originality/value

This paper is first to study selling mode decision and PB introduction decision when considering enterprises' risk-averse attitude.

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Kybernetes, vol. 54 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 4 April 2016

Haixia Wang, Yuliang Wang, Yaozong Sun, Qiong Pu and Xiao Lu

Because of the inconvenience and inflexibility of the laser controller, the applied range of optogenetics is limited. This paper aims to present the design of a portable…

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Purpose

Because of the inconvenience and inflexibility of the laser controller, the applied range of optogenetics is limited. This paper aims to present the design of a portable remote-controlled laser controller system, including the remote-controlled system and the laser stimulator.

Design/methodology/approach

The remote-controlled system is handheld, which can wirelessly adjust the power and the emitting frequency of the laser by utilizing the ZigBee module.

Findings

The laser stimulator can be mounted on the animal as it is light weight (35 g) and small in size (40 × 40 × 20 mm), and its power and frequency can be appropriately adjusted by changing the current amplitude and duty radio. In the end, the experiments verify the reliability and effectiveness of the laser controller.

Originality/value

In virtue of the modular design of the driven circuit and the reasonable layout, the whole system has the advantages of small volume, convenient control and high stability, which provide the convenience for the development of portable optogenetics animal robot experiment and has broad market prospects.

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Assembly Automation, vol. 36 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-5154

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