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Transformational Issues of Big Data and Analytics in Networked Business

The era of big data and analytics is upon us and is changing the world dramatically. The field of Information Systems should be at the forefront of understanding and interpreting the impact of both technologies and management so as to lead the efforts of business research in the big data era. We need to prepare ourselves and our students for this changing world of business. In this discussion, we focus on exploring the technical and managerial issues of business transformation resulting from the insightful adoption and innovative applications of data sciences in business. We end by providing an overview of the papers included in this special issue and outline future research directions.
Cellular Phones Contribute to Dangerous Driving

Early traffic safety research was plagued by inconsistencies in terminology. For example, researchers variously used such terms as risky driving, road rage, and aggressive driving to describe similar phenomena, but without differentiation of distinct sub-concepts (Dula & Geller, 2003; James & Nahl, 2002). ‘Dangerous driving’ was eventually advanced as an inclusive term, with categories separating aggressive driving (acts with intent to harm, physically or psychologically), the experiencing of negative cognitions and emotions (e.g. anger, rumination, but without intention to harm another), and risk taking (e.g., driving while impaired, speeding) (Dula & Ballard, 2003; Dula & Geller 2003; Willemsen, Dula, Declercq, & Verhaeghe, 2008). Distracted driving is a type of risky driving (other types include such things as speeding, redlight running, DWI), as it puts one at heightened risk for a crash, but does not involve intent to harm. Cellular (cell) phone use while driving is such a distraction, and like most distractions, it is preventable. This article addresses the risks of cell phone use on roadways and safety measures that might be taken to prevent such hazards. As cell phones have become virtually ubiquitous, their impact on traffic safety has become the subject of much research. Cell phone distractions now include texting, using Apps, watching videos, surfing the Internet, and use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), in addition to traditional voicebased conversation. Dr. Yim (Yim, Kanafi, & Ygnance, 1991) at the University of California-Berkely, Dr. Donald Redelmeier, M. D. (Redelmeier & Tibshirani, 1997) at the University of Toronto, Dr. Valdimar Briem (Briem & Hedman, 1995) at the University of Lund-Sweden, and Dr. Karel A. Brookhuis (Brookhuis, De Vries, & De Waard, 1991) at Coventry University are among some of the most influential pioneering researchers in this field. Leaders in contemporary research include Dr. David L. Strayer and Dr. Frank A. Drews (Strayer & Drews, 2012) at the University of Utah, Dr. Gregory M. Fitch (Fitch, Soccolich, Guo, McClafferty, Fang, Olson, Perez, Hanowski, Hankey, & Dingus, 2014) at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), and myriad researches working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Improving Photovoltaic Performance through Radiative Cooling in Both Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments References and Links

The method of detailed balance, introduced by Shockley and Queisser, is often used to find an upper theoretical limit for the efficiency of semiconductor pn-junction based photovoltaics. Typically the solar cell is assumed to be at an ambient temperature of 300 K. In this paper, we describe and analyze the use of radiative cooling techniques to lower the solar cell temperature below the ambient to surpass the detailed balance limit for a cell in contact with an ideal heat sink. We show that by combining specifically designed radiative cooling structures with solar cells, efficiencies higher than the limiting efficiency achievable at 300 K can be obtained for solar cells in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments. We show that our proposed structure yields an efficiency 0.87% higher than a typical PV module at operating temperatures in a terrestrial application. We also demonstrate an efficiency advantage of 0.4-2.6% for solar cells in an extraterrestrial environment in near-earth orbit. Detailed balance limit of p-n junction solar cells, " J. Heat pipe-based cooling systems for photovoltaic cells under concentrated solar radiation, " Appl. Passive cooling for airconditioning energy savings with new radiative low-cost coatings, " Energy Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight, Electricity from photovoltaic solar cells: flat-plate solar array project final report, "
Affective experience of physical user interfaces: Similarities and differences among control types

This study aims to determine similarities and differences in affective experience when manipulating 3 physical user interfaces (PUIs): button, touch screen, and jog dial inputs. First, we conducted literature and expert reviews to identify key affective experiences of PUI manipulation. As a result, seven affective experiences (Softness, Elasticity, Heaviness, Smoothness, Sharpness, Clarity of Feedback, and Rattle) were identified, and they were categorized into two dimensions (Force and Feedback Vibration). Three experiments, including 51 types of buttons, 25 synthesized stimuli for touch screen, and 51 types of jog dials, were then conducted to determine the relationship between affective experiences, satisfaction, and physical parameters of each PUI. According to the results, it was common for all three PUIs that Clarity of Feedback was the most important factor for satisfaction. However, there were also differences between the effects of affective experiences and physical parameters. User satisfaction on manipulating jog dials was found to be less affected by affective experiences than buttons and touch screens. Among physical parameters, the strength of feedback was the most important factor for the affective experience of buttons and touch screens, whereas the period of feedback was the most important factor for jog dials. These similarities and differences could be explained by cognitive and manipulative factors (e.g., attention level, types of feedback, and hand posture of manipulation). The results of this study can help researchers and practitioners better understand and enhance the affective aspects of PUI manipulations.
Government Expenditure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Trivariate Causality Testing

This paper seeks to examine if the relative size of government (measured as the share of total expenditure in GNP can be determined to Granger cause the rate of economic growth, or if the rate of economic growth can be determined to Granger cause the relative size of government. For this purpose, we first use a bivariate error correction model within a Granger causality framework, as well as adding unemployment and inflation (separately) as explanatory variables, creating a simple ‘trivariate’ analysis for each of these two variables. The combined analysis of bivariate and trivariate tests offers a rich menu of possible causal patterns. Using data on Greece, UK and Ireland, the analysis shows: i) government size Granger causes economic growth in all countries of the sample in the short run and in the long run for Ireland and the UK; ii) economic growth Granger causes increases in the relative size of government in Greece, and, when inflation is included, in the UK.
Recidivism among Male Insanity Acquittees

Although there have been studies of the relative criminal recidivism rates of insanity acquittees and of those of persons found guilty of similar offenses, little is known about whether the same factors are related to recidivism in both groups. In the present study, we compared the general and violent recidivism rates of insanity acquittees and convicted men who had been assessed in a maximum security psychiatric hospital prior to their trials. The groups were matched on age, offense and criminal history. Recidivism for the convicted group was found to be higher than for the insanity acquittees. Similar to the findings for the convicted men, subject characteristics that reflected past criminal and antisocial behavior were more closely related to outcome for the insanity acquittees than were clinical variables. Furthermore, multiple discriminant equations to predict recidivism were constructed for each group separately, and they performed well on cross-validations using the other group. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for policy and treatment planning for mentally disordered offenders.
Mixed Equilibrium for Multiclass Routing Games

We consider a network shared by noncooperative two types of users, group users and individual users, each user of the first type has a significant impact on the load of the network, whereas a user of the second type doesn’t. Both group users as well as individual users choose their routes so as to minimize their costs. We further consider the case that the users may have side constraints. We study the concept of mixed equilibrium (mixing of Nash equilibrium and Wardrop equilibrium). We establish its existence and some conditions for its uniqueness. Then we apply the mixed equilibrium to a parallel links network and to a case of load balancing. Keywords—Game Theory, routing, networks, Nash equilibrium, Wardrop equilibrium, mixed-equilibrium, side co nstraints.
Towards Guidelines for the Evolution of E-Service Environments

Different domains, such as the health care domain, can benefit from an increased use of e-services. However, factors such as vendor lock-in, the lack of standardized infrastructure and quality criteria can slow down the creation and use of e-services in a domain. To encourage the development of e-services there is both a need for simplicity - to enable new actors to use and provide e-services, and a need for regulation - such as defined standards and quality levels. In this paper we present the concept of a service collaboration environment - a sustainable model for e-service evolution that facilitates the maintenance of the balance between simplicity and regulation. We use the theory of competitive market forces to define a set of service collaboration environment guidelines that aims to enable increased use of e-services by stimulating new service consumers and providers to enter the environment. The guidelines can be applied to drive the evolution of e-services in a business domain.
SPR Distance Computation for Unrooted Trees

The subtree prune and regraft distance (dSPR) between phylogenetic trees is important both as a general means of comparing phylogenetic tree topologies as well as a measure of lateral gene transfer (LGT). Although there has been extensive study on the computation of dSPR and similar metrics between rooted trees, much less is known about SPR distances for unrooted trees, which often arise in practice when the root is unresolved. We show that unrooted SPR distance computation is NP-Hard and verify which techniques from related work can and cannot be applied. We then present an efficient heuristic algorithm for this problem and benchmark it on a variety of synthetic datasets. Our algorithm computes the exact SPR distance between unrooted tree, and the heuristic element is only with respect to the algorithm's computation time. Our method is a heuristic version of a fixed parameter tractability (FPT) approach and our experiments indicate that the running time behaves similar to FPT algorithms. For real data sets, our algorithm was able to quickly compute dSPR for the majority of trees that were part of a study of LGT in 144 prokaryotic genomes. Our analysis of its performance, especially with respect to searching and reduction rules, is applicable to computing many related distance measures.
Extraction of weather information on road using CCTV video

Weather information along roads is needed to reduce the traffic accidents caused by adverse weather and road conditions. Although automatic weather systems (AWS) provide wide-range coverage of weather conditions, collection devices cannot be installed on every road because of the high cost. Thus, we propose a method that extracts weather information using CCTV video data. This method is composed of three processing steps: generating conditional weather patterns using CCTV video data, calculating the similarity, and generating the weather information.
An Indicator-Based Approach for Analyzing the Resilience of Transitions for Energy Regions. Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations

The transition of our current energy system from a fossil-based system to a system based on renewables is likely to be one of the most complex and long-term societal transitions in history. The need for a fundamental system transformation raises the question of how to measure the continuing progress and the resilience of this process over time. This paper aims at developing the conceptualization and operationalization of resilience for energy systems in transition with regard to both social and technical aspects. Based on the resilience concept in social-ecological systems literature, we propose to conceptualize resilience for energy systems building on two core attributes of resilience, namely diversity and connectivity. We present an indicator set to operationalize these key attributes in social and technical systems using: (i) definitions and measurements for three fundamental diversity properties—variety, balance and disparity—and (ii) basic connectivity properties from the social network analysis literature—path length, centrality and modularity. Finally, we reflect on possibilities for an application of these indicators in the social and technical system’s spheres and discuss the added value of the approach for energy transition research.
Reanalysing object gaps during non-native sentence processing: Evidence from ERPs

The present study used event related potentials (ERPs) to investigate how native (L1) German-speaking second-language (L2) learners of English process sentences containing filler-gap dependencies such as Bill liked the house (women) that Bob built some ornaments for __ at his workplace. Using an experimental design which allowed us to dissociate filler integration from reanalysis effects, we found that fillers which were implausible as direct objects of the embedded verb (e.g. built the women) elicited similar brain responses (an N400) in L1 and L2 speakers when the verb was encountered. This confirms findings from behavioral and eye-movement studies indicating that both L1 and L2 speakers immediately try to integrate a filler with a potential lexical licensor. L1/L2 differences were observed when subsequent sentence material signaled that the direct-object analysis was in fact incorrect, however. We found reanalysis effects, in the shape of a P600 for sentences containing fillers that were plausible direct objects only for L2 speakers, but not for the L1 group. This supports previous findings suggesting that L2 comprehenders recover from an initially plausible first analysis less easily than L1 speakers.
HRD standards and standardization: where now for human resource development?

ABSTRACT This paper examines standard-setting and standardization processes currently being undertaken in the human resources field and makes a ‘call to action’ for human resource development (HRD) scholars and practitioners to influence these developments. The paper provides a reflexive ‘insider account’ of HR standards development combining personal experience with theoretical perspectives; ‘grey’ and practitioner literatures; and secondary data sources. Drawing on scholarly literature sources, opportunities and dilemmas of standardization processes in the HR field are discussed. Grounded in the standardization literature, alternative approaches to system-wide (meta) standards are identified. Drawing on publically available information, different standardization approaches in USA and UK are discussed. The paper critiques the dominant performance-orientated paradigm and ‘rules-based’ approach to standards and argues for an alternative, principles-based approach for HR standardization to support sustainable individual and organizational performance. These issues have important consequences for HRD identity, pedagogy, education, and practice. In addition to the development of an original typology of emerging HR standardization, the paper contributes a new perspective to debates about the identity, values, purpose, and contribution of HRD and the relationship between HRD and human resource management (HRM).
Cross-modal interactions of faces, voices and names in person familiarity

ABSTRACT Person recognition often involves integration of several cues. We asked if familiarity judgments for one cue were influenced by the congruency of pairings with other cues. In a learning phase, subjects studied audiovisual clips of faces, voices and names. A test phase presented uni-modal and bi-modal stimuli. For 10 subjects the bi-modal test stimuli were faces and voices, for 10 faces and names, and for 10 voices and names. In one set of blocks the target was the first modality, and in the other set it was the second. Targets in bi-modal stimuli were paired with either the same or a different identity in the second modality. Face/voice combinations showed congruency effects in reaction time but face/name and voice/name combinations did not. There was no difference between faces modulating target voices and voices modulating target faces. This is consistent with interactions between sensory representations before amodal stages of person recognition.
Splitting Methods with Modified Potentials and Application to the Damped Wave Equation

In this report we study and compare particular integration methods to solve ordinary differential equations, which are separable in solvable parts. The main source for this work is the article of Blanes and Casas: "On the necessity of negative coefficient for operator splitting schemes of order higher than two", which was published by ELSEVIER in 2004. After a brief introduction and some preliminaries on fundamental aknownledged, namely the flow of a differential equation which will allow to construct splitting schemes, we start the third part of this work with some definitions and fundamental theorems for general splitting schemes. At the end of this section, we will look more carefully on some special schemes, with modified potentials. In the fourth part, we study and compare some of the different methods seen in the third part of this report on an ordinary separable differential equation. In fifth part, we use these splitting schemes on the damped wave equation and look at the conservation of the Energy. Finally, you will find the main MATLAB code in the annexe.
Effect of Biofilm Formation by Pseudoalteromonas spongiae on Induction of Larval Settlement of the Polychaete Hydroides elegans

ABSTRACT The effects of culture conditions and chloramphenicol treatment on the induction of the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas spongiae to larval settlement of Hydroides elegans were investigated. The results showed that P. spongiae cells grown in the medium containing both yeast extract and peptone (YP-grown P. spongiae) was highly inductive to larval settlement, whereas P. spongiae cells grown in the medium containing only peptone (P-grown P. spongiae) or YP-grown P. spongiae cells treated with chloramphenicol at the onset of biofilm development (YPC-grown P. spongiae) did not induce larval settlement. Analysis of biofilm formation, biofilm structure, and the surface protein profile indicated that only the induction-capable YP-grown P. spongiae formed a well-developed biofilm, while the P-grown P. spongiae and the YPC-grown P. spongiae did not. We report here for the first time that bacterial biofilm formation was associated with its induction of larval settlement.
AN AFFIX STRIPPING MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER FOR TURKISH

This paper presents the design and the implementation of a morphological analyzer for Turkish. A new methodology is proposed for doing the analysis of Turkish words with an affix stripping approach and without using any lexicon. The rule-based and agglutinative structure of the language allows Turkish to be modeled with finite state machines (FSMs). In contrast to the previous works, in this study, FSMs are formed by using the morphotactic rules in reverse order. This paper describes the steps of this new methodology including the classification of the suffixes, the generation of the FSMs for each suffix class and their unification into a main machine to cooperate in the analysis.
Royal Jelly and Its Dual Role in TNBS Colitis in Mice

Royal Jelly (RJ) is widely consumed in diets throughout the world due to its beneficial effects: antioxidant, antitumor and anti-inflammatory. We have investigated the role of RJ in the development of TNBS colitis in mice. Colitis was induced by a rectal instillation of TNBS at 0.1 mL per mouse. Intestine samples of the animals orally treated with RJ (100, 150, and 200 mg/kg) were collected for antioxidant assays (GSH and GSH-Px), proinflammatory protein quantification (COX-2 and NF-κB), and histological analyses. RJ 100 mg/kg maintained GSH levels and increased the activity of GSH-Px, downregulated key inflammatory mediators (COX-2 and NF-κB), and decreased the lesions caused by TNBS as shown by the histological analyses. In conclusion, RJ showed anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties in experimental colitis, resulting in the amelioration of the macroscopic and histological analyses. These results corroborate with the RJ supplementation in diets.
Classification of Clustering Schemes in VANETs

The emergence of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) provides drivers and passengers with safer and more convenient services. However special characteristics of VANETs such as high mobility, movement constraint, and signal blocking hinder the wide propagation of it. One good way to alleviate those unique characteristics of VANETs is clustering. Even though there are many clustering techniques, few investigations to understand them are conducted. In this paper, we examine some cluster based approaches in VANETs carefully and classify them into two categories based on the property of cluster; that is, stationary cluster and mobile cluster. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of both will be illustrated. We hope that researchers who design the new clustering mechanism in VANETs could facilitate this classification to make theirs more suitable for their purpose.
Optimal Resource Allocation for MIMO Ad Hoc Cognitive Radio Networks

Maximization of the weighted sum-rate of secondary users (SUs) possibly equipped with multiantenna transmitters and receivers is considered in the context of cognitive radio (CR) networks with coexisting primary users (PUs). The total interference power received at the primary receiver is constrained to maintain reliable communication for the PU. An interference channel configuration is considered for ad hoc networking, where the receivers treat the interference from undesired transmitters as noise. Without the CR constraint, a convergent distributed algorithm is developed to obtain (at least) a locally optimal solution. With the CR constraint, a semidistributed algorithm is introduced. An alternative centralized algorithm based on geometric programming and network duality is also developed. Numerical results show the efficacy of the proposed algorithms. The novel approach is flexible to accommodate modifications aiming at interference alignment. However, the stand-alone weighted sum-rate optimal schemes proposed here have merits over interference-alignment alternatives especially for practical SNR values.