SOFA 2.0: Balancing Advanced Features in a Hierarchical Component Model

Author(s):  
T. Bures ◽  
P. Hnetynka ◽  
F. Plasil

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
Siew Chin Wong ◽  
Jia Ying Lim ◽  
Chui Seong Lim ◽  
Kay Tze Hong

This study examines how undergraduates’ personality, parental and peer influences on their career choice. Partial Least Square, hierarchical component model (HCM) was used to measure the formative measurement model of personality construct and reflective measurement models of parent and peer influence constructs on career choices in the study. Data were collected from 218 of undergraduates from local private and public universities. Findings show that there are significant positive relationship between personality, parental and peer influences and career choices. Such insights are useful for HRD practitioners to develop relevant HRD interventions to assist individuals and organizations in career development. Limitations and suggestions for future research are also discussed.



2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ebrahimi ◽  
Hamid Poursharifi ◽  
Behrooz Dolatshahi ◽  
Omid Rezaee ◽  
Hamid Reza Hassanabadi ◽  
...  

The cognitive model of negative symptoms suggests that some dysfunctional beliefs mediate the relationship between neurocognitive deficits and negative symptoms and disability. This study tested the hypothesis that dysfunctional performance beliefs mediate neurocognitive deficits, negative symptoms, and disability. We used a hierarchal component model with 85 men patients diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia. Results showed a moderate to strong correlation between dysfunctional performance beliefs, neurocognitive deficits, negative symptoms, and disability. These results support the Hierarchal component model (HCM) of the cognitive model of negative symptoms. Our results indicated that the disability in schizophrenia is mediated through dysfunctional performance beliefs, neurocognitive deficits, and negative symptoms pathway. Further, dysfunctional performance beliefs have a crucial role in this pathway. Therefore, targeting this vicious cycle of dysfunctional beliefs can improve disability in patients with schizophrenia.



2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérémie Allard ◽  
Jean-Denis Lesage ◽  
Bruno Raffin

This paper focuses on the design of high performance VR applications. These applications usually involve various I/O devices and complex simulations. A parallel architecture or grid infrastructure is required to provide the necessary I/O and processing capabilities. Developing such applications faces several difficulties, two important ones being software engineering and performance issues. We argue that application modularity is a key concept to help the developer handle the complexity of these applications. We discuss how various approaches borrowed from other existing works can be combined to significantly improve the modularity of VR applications. This led to the development of the FlowVR middleware that associates a data-flow model with a hierarchical component model. Different case studies are presented to discuss the benefits of the approach proposed.



2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 1211-1234
Author(s):  
Thi Hong Hai Nguyen

Discussions on authenticity have become prominent in tourism research, particularly in the context of heritage tourism and quantitative approaches have become popular methods to investigate authenticity, especially from a tourist’s perspective. Previous studies, however, have failed to include multiple forms of authenticity into a single quantitative scale, as well as to use a formative approach for its measures. This study develops a comprehensive and reliable scale of authenticity, considering its multidimensional complexity and its formative nature. A reflective–formative hierarchical component model of perceived authenticity toward heritage experience, including three lower order components of objective authenticity, existential authenticity, and constructive authenticity, is proposed. The scale of authenticity also indicates a strong predictive power over tourist satisfaction.



2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Denis Lesage ◽  
Bruno Raffin


Methodology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregor Sočan

Abstract. When principal component solutions are compared across two groups, a question arises whether the extracted components have the same interpretation in both populations. The problem can be approached by testing null hypotheses stating that the congruence coefficients between pairs of vectors of component loadings are equal to 1. Chan, Leung, Chan, Ho, and Yung (1999) proposed a bootstrap procedure for testing the hypothesis of perfect congruence between vectors of common factor loadings. We demonstrate that the procedure by Chan et al. is both theoretically and empirically inadequate for the application on principal components. We propose a modification of their procedure, which constructs the resampling space according to the characteristics of the principal component model. The results of a simulation study show satisfactory empirical properties of the modified procedure.



2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn R. Hartmann ◽  
Kristie Lynn Campana ◽  
Lance Andrews


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy A. Jackson ◽  
John P. Meyer ◽  
Yaprak Kumsar


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