Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation Algorithm over a Secured Multimedia Network

Image segmentation has proved its importance and plays an important role in various domains such as health systems and satellite-oriented military applications. In this context, accuracy, image quality, and execution time deem to be the major issues to always consider. Although many techniques have been applied, and their experimental results have shown appealing achievements for 2D images in real-time environments, however, there is a lack of works about 3D image segmentation despite its importance in improving segmentation accuracy. Specifically, HMM was used in this domain. However, it suffers from the time complexity, which was updated using different accelerators. As it is important to have efficient 3D image segmentation, we propose in this paper a novel system for partitioning the 3D segmentation process across several distributed machines. The concepts behind distributed multimedia network segmentation were employed to accelerate the segmentation computational time of training Hidden Markov Model (HMMs). Furthermore, a secure transmission has been considered in this distributed environment and various bidirectional multimedia security algorithms have been applied. The contribution of this work lies in providing an efficient and secure algorithm for 3D image segmentation. Through a number of extensive experiments, it was proved that our proposed system is of comparable efficiency to the state of art methods in terms of segmentation accuracy, security and execution time

The Impact of Marketing Strategy on Organization Reputation: Analytical Study on Jordanian vegetable oils companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange

Purpose – The objective of the paper is to study the impact of marketing strategy on the reputation of an organization, in addition to the outcome of the analytical study on companies of middle and minor status in Jordan. Design/Methodology/Approach – The survey was created and spread for employees of middle and higher managerial status. Researchers used the various recession analyses to estimate the impact of marketing strategy on organization reputation. Findings – The modern study of the impact of the marketing strategy on organization reputation

How strategic orientations influence the performance of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations

Lückenbach, F., Baumgarth, C., Schmidt, H. J., & Henseler, J. (2019). To perform or not to perform? : How strategic orientations influence the performance of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations. Cogent Business and Management, 6(1), [1647820]. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2019.1647820Social Entrepreneurship Organizations (SEOs) aim to solve social, environmental or societal problems even as they strive to work profitably. The achievement of the social mission also requires economic viability and differentiation from the competition. Acting in contested markets, SEOs must, therefore, adopt a competitive strategy to deliver services and products. While literature concerning achieving competitive advantages through a strategic concept has a long tradition in business management, little is known about how SEOs can use different strategic orientations (SO) to achieve superior performance. Based on a global sample of social entrepreneurs (n = 130), this study assessed the impact of market orientation (MO), entrepreneurial orientation (EO), and brand orientation (BO) on SEO performance. The findings indicate that MO and EO help SEOs to foster social and market performance. Using partial least squares (PLS) path modelling, in conjunction with fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), this study also provides new insights into the interplay of SO, illustrating that MO and BO are complementary approaches that contribute to economic performance.publishersversionpublishe