TY - CONF TI - Computer Literacy Teaching Using Peer Learning and Under the Confucian Heritage Cultural Settings of Macao, China AU - Wong, Kelvin AU - Neves, Ana AU - Negreiros, João AB - University students in Macao are required to attend computer literacy courses to raise their basic skills levels and knowledge as part of their literacy foundation. Still, teachers frequently complain about the weak IT skills of many students, suggesting that most of them may not be benefiting sufficiently from their computer literacy courses. This research proposes an enhanced framework based on constructivist principles by using peer-tutoring to increase cost effectiveness and to improve student outcomes. Essential to this proposed model is the training of former course graduates as peer-instructors to achieve high quality learning results. At Instituto de Formação Turistica (IFT), a case study was used to evaluate its effectiveness using a qualitative analysis. In Macao, most students have a Confucian Heritage Cultural (CHC) background and the current findings demonstrate that students share more easily their learning difficulties within their group as their interpersonal relationships improve. It is suggested that since CHC cooperative learning is primarily based on bonds, students involved in this 'relationship-first, learning-second' type shared a larger amount of knowledge and social skills, a dual positive outcome. Moreover, English language is a major barrier for the understanding of the teacher’s message to Chinese students. Meanwhile, the negative Western concept of plagiarism is replaced, under the CHC, as the ‘face giving’ and it is directly based on the relationship intensity to 'help friends'. At last, peer-tutors play a key role in the student increase internal motivation regarding the joy of the learning process. C3 - International Conference Educational Technologies, 2017 DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 SP - 8 LA - en SN - 978-989-8533-71-5 UR - https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED579300 ER - TY - CONF TI - Evaluating an Enterprise Content Management for the Macao Government Agency AU - Pong, F. AU - Whitfield, R. AU - Negreiros, J. A2 - Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela A2 - Varajão, João A2 - Powell, Philip A2 - Martinho, Ricardo T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science AB - Information contained within documents is an essential ingredient of any office operation. A content management application (CMA) is an organization plan for the conception, use, retention, disposal and selective preservation of its data. Using an appropriate CMA framework can greatly help Macao Government agencies, for instance, that are increasingly using electronic means to create, exchange and store a major variety of records daily. By definition, a record is information, in whatever form, for government functions, activities, decisions and other important transactions. As expected, as the volume of electronic information increases, so does the complexity of managing electronic records. This project goal was to evaluate the software capabilities of the Alfresco© Enterprise Content Management (ECM) against a set of functional requirements, aimed by the Macao Government agency. Drawing on the results of this evaluation, the present analysis concludes that Alfresco© ECM is capable of supporting an entire agency needs related to the management of its records content. C1 - Berlin, Heidelberg C3 - ENTERprise Information Systems DA - 2011/// PY - 2011 DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-24355-4_4 DP - Springer Link SP - 29 EP - 39 LA - en PB - Springer SN - 978-3-642-24355-4 KW - Alfresco© KW - Enterprise Content Management KW - Macao Government KW - Open Source Software ER - TY - CONF TI - Contemplation on Today’s Digital Education AU - Negreiros, João AU - de Fatima Oliveira, Maria A2 - Rocha, Alvaro A2 - Correia, Ana Maria A2 - Costanzo, Sandra A2 - Reis, Luis Paulo T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing AB - This paper starts to address the affect and side-effects of social media on people’s live in a pure contemplation perspective. Social networks are revised and some issues regarding its impact on education was not forgotten such as the teacher role in the digital classroom, formal versus informal learning or Web 2.0 tools use. Since Moodle is the first Learning Management System whilst Facebook is the first social network in the world, a survey was accomplished with two independent classes of e-business students at University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China, on their attitudes toward both online services in a learning framework. In general, the results confirms to a certain extent others previous studies on the question of whether using Facebook as an educational tool is more effective than Moodle. C1 - Cham C3 - New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies DA - 2015/// PY - 2015 DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-16486-1_120 DP - Springer Link SP - 1213 EP - 1220 LA - en PB - Springer International Publishing SN - 978-3-319-16486-1 KW - Education KW - Facebook KW - Macao KW - Moodle KW - Social Networks ER - TY - CONF TI - Microsoft Power BI Desktop for Data Analytics AU - NEGREIROS, J. Garrott Marques AU - MARQUES, JA Lobo C3 - Proc. Multidiscip. Acad. Conf DA - 2019/// PY - 2019 DP - Google Scholar SP - 132 ER - TY - CONF TI - Fast Cluster-learning with Prior Probability from Big Dataset AU - Li, Tengyue AU - Fong, Simon AU - Lobo Marques, Joao Alexandre AU - Wong, Raymond K. T2 - 2018 5th International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI) AB - Association Rule Mining by Aprior method has been one of the popular data mining techniques for decades, where knowledge in the form of item-association rules is harvested from a dataset. The quality of item-association rules nevertheless depends on the concentration of frequent items from the input dataset. When the dataset becomes large, the items are scattered far apart. It is known from previous literature that clustering helps produce some data groups which are concentrated with frequent items. Among all the data clusters generated by a clustering algorithm, there must be one or more clusters which contain suitable and frequent items. In turn, the association rules that are mined from such clusters would be assured of better qualities in terms of high confidence than those mined from the whole dataset. However, it is not known in advance which cluster is the suitable one until all the clusters are tried by association rule mining. It is time consuming if they were to be tested by brute-force. In this paper, a statistical property called prior probability is investigated with respect to selecting the best out of many clusters by a clustering algorithm as a pre-processing step before association rule mining. Experiment results indicate that there is correlation between prior probability of the best cluster and the relatively high quality of association rules generated from that cluster. The results are significant as it is possible to know which cluster should be best used for association rule mining instead of testing them all out exhaustively. C3 - 2018 5th International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI) DA - 2018/11// PY - 2018 DO - 10.1109/ISCMI.2018.8703219 DP - IEEE Xplore SP - 60 EP - 66 KW - Association Rule Mining KW - Big Data KW - Clustering KW - Clustering algorithms KW - Data mining KW - Itemsets KW - Preprocessing KW - Prior Probability KW - Probabilistic logic KW - Probability distribution ER - TY - CONF TI - Endogenous fragmented technology and optimal offshoring in large civil aircraft production AU - Lei, Weng Chi T2 - The 9th Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Economic Association AB - This paper is motivated by two observations in the large civil aircraft (LCA) industry. (1) Boeing and Airbus are significantly different in the degree of offshoring. (2) The degree of offshoring also changes among different aircraft models. To offer an explanation, this paper focuses on issues related to fragmentation. Existing literature has established the tie between fragmented technology and offshoring. However, it is assumed that production can be fragmented readily and at no cost; and only exogenous global economic factors have impact on the degree of fragmentation. This model distinguishes itself from others by incorporating endogeneity in fragmentation. A final-good firm can spend on R&D specifically for its own fragmented technology. As a result, the final-good firm can optimally choose the portion of components to be offshored. A strategic trade policy model is used to show that the degree of offshoring depends on the firm's own cost of production, the host country's cost of production, the global state of technology as well as the government trade policies. In particular, export subsidy and subsidy on R&D of fragmented technology are shown to be policy substitutes. Keywords: Fragmentation; Offshoring; Outsourcing; Aircraft; Export subsidy; R&D subsidy; Boeing; Airbus JEL classification: F12; F13; F23; L13 C1 - Osaka, Japan DA - 2013/07/28/ PY - 2013 DP - ResearchGate UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369091812_Endogenous_fragmented_technology_and_optimal_offshoring_in_large_civil_aircraft_production ER - TY - CONF TI - Attitude and perception towards green products in Macao: An exploratory study AU - Lampo, Alessandro AU - Leong, Sin U T2 - 13th Society for Global Business & Economic Development (SGBED 2014) C1 - Ancona, Italy DA - 2014/// PY - 2014 PB - Society for Global Business and Economic Development ST - Macao UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264048865_Attitude_and_perception_towards_green_products_in_Macao_An_exploratory_study ER - TY - CONF TI - Critical development of green marketing in the hotel industry: Macao case study AU - Lampo, Alessandro AU - Gregori, Gian Luca AU - Cardinali, Silvio AU - Temperini, Valerio T2 - SGBED Research Symposiums:Doing Well by Doing Good: New Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Inclusive Capitalism AB - This study analyzes the green marketing strategies with specific reference to the hotel industry. The concept of green marketing in this sector is crucial due to the growing expected importance of tourism in the future of global economy and its potential impact on social and economic development; this is true particularly in areas with relevant volumes of tourist arrivals. In this sense, we carried out an exploratory research in the hotel industry of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Macao in order to: highlight the primary motivations that underlie interventions geared towards the eco-sustainability of hotels, the services they offer and point out the problems, issues, and future prospects in the development of green marketing, as well as explore the role of eco-sustainable values in hotels’ online communication policies. In order to reach these aims a qualitative research was carried out with a semi-structured questionnaire (face-to-face interviews) to a group of hotels. The research was finished by an analysis of their websites, in order to verify possible references to the steps taken to protect the environment. C1 - Bangalore, India DA - 2012/07/09/11 PY - 2012 PB - Society for Global Business and Economic Development UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262098190_Critical_development_of_green_marketing_in_the_hotel_industry_Macao_case_study ER - TY - CONF TI - Macao: A Study on the Impact of Global, Regional and Local Forces. AU - Lampo, Alessandro AU - Care, Leanda AB - Over the years Macao has been exposed to different cultures and has been influenced by various political and economic interests. The booming casino economy has ultimately transformed the city into the largest gambling hub in the world. In spite of the consensus about Macao's shiny future, there are factors (such as the large reliance on a single industry) and socio-economic problems (such as labor shortage, unequal income distribution, and inflationary pressure) that moderate the optimism. By making use of the Chatterjee and Nankervis' convergent and divergent process model for management, this paper examines how global, regional, and local forces have impacted the economic development process, form and type of organizations in Macao. The paper also suggests that the government implement a framework that develops and diversifies the economy but also takes into consideration the social needs of the community. C1 - Singapore C3 - Proceedings of the 12th Society for Global Business & Economic Development (SGBED 2011) DA - 2011/07/21/ PY - 2011 DP - ResearchGate PB - Signapore Management University ST - Macao UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262098245_Macao_A_Study_on_the_Impact_of_Global_Regional_and_Local_Forces ER -