THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL CULTURE ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK USAGE AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS
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Abstract
Computer-based social networks have become the new phenomenon in the Internet era. Millions of people are networking and exchanging contents. In the real world, one may have a very small number of friends to exchange with, whereas, in the virtual world, virtual fiends, who sometimes may convert to real friends are counted by hundreds if not thousands. Previous research has largely documented the impact of national culture on information technology usage. It has been clearly noticed that the number of social network users in the Arab world has always been dramatically increasing in the last decade. This paper presents the theoretical explanation of this phenomenon and argues that the high power distance and collectivist dimensions of the national culture in the Arab world are major factors which may increase social network usage. However and paradoxically, we argue that the same factors may pose barriers to electronic commerce business transactions in the Arab world. Arabs prefer to conduct transactions in face to face mode and not in the online world.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it