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A CONTINGENCY MODEL FOR ORGANIZATIONALTECHNOLOGY ADOPTION DECISION-MAKINGCONCERNING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Decision-making concerning technology adoption within organizations is an arduous task based on a number of contingent factors such as (1) organizational characteristics, (2) attributes of the technology, (3) environmental complexities, (4) and perceptions of the decision-maker(s). This research employs qualitative methods to explore these factors and present a contingency model that depicts the impact of the aforementioned concepts on the type of organizational decision-making orientation selected and its overall relationship to organizational benefit.
Lysosomal Neuraminidase

Lysosomal N-Acetyl-α-neuraminidase is active in complex with the protective protein/cathepsin A (PPCA) and β-galactosidase. The interaction with PPCA is essential for the correct intracellular routing and lysosomal localization of neuraminidase, but the mechanism of its catalytic activation is unclear. To investigate this process, we have used the baculovirus expression system to co-express neuraminidase and PPCA precursors in insect cells, which resulted in high enzymatic activity of neuraminidase. Both the 34- and 20-kDa PPCA subunits were required for the activation. We further demonstrated that when expressed alone, the neuraminidase precursor remained dimeric (114 kDa) and had low enzymatic activity, but when co-expressed with PPCA and β-galactosidase, it multimerized in a complex of ∼1350 kDa, together with the other two proteins. The fully active neuraminidase co-precipitated with full-length PPCA and β-galactosidase precursors. However, when co-expressed with the individual PPCA subunits, neuraminidase co-precipitated only with the small 20-kDa polypeptide, which therefore must contain a neuraminidase-binding site. Our finding suggests a model of activation of neuraminidase dependent on its oligomerization at acidic pH that is mediated by interaction with PPCA.
A silicon-on-insulator 28-V RF power LDMOSFET for 1-GHz integrated power amplifier applications

This paper presents the first results of a 1-GHz SOI RF power LDMOSFET with 115 mW of output power. A 6-W P/sub OUT/ (competitive with comparable bulk LDMOSTs) can be achieved by scaling the FET dimensions with little degradation of RF performance. Both DC and RF characteristics are presented, and model parameters are extracted. Class A amplifier results are shown to deliver a PAE of 25%, power gain of 16 dB, and 1-dB compression of 40 mW. These results are extremely encouraging for IPA development with SOI RF power LDMOSFETs.
Empresa 2.0: Detección de plagio y análisis de opiniones

The advent of Web 2.0 has brought a revolution in the business world. Enterprise that have adapted to this new system, have become the leading enterprises today. Web 2.0 has been a revolution, as it provided greater contact between enterprise and customers by improving the relationship between them. One of the great advantages that a enterprise can take advantage of Web 2.0 are the opinions shared by consumers about brands and products, which will set the market trends. However, Web 2.0 has expanded several problems that a enterprise must solve. The Web has provided ease of access to information, but this has increased cases of plagiarism among enterprises. Enterprises must protect their ideas of the unfair business, which take advantage of the ideas of others to ascribe merit of others. In this work, we describe the state of the art of automatic plagiarism detection. We also present some experiments with a plagiarism detection tool available on the Web with which a enterprise can protect its intellectual property. These experiments demonstrate the difficulty for a enterprise to protect its intellectual property with currently available tools which stresses the need to explore new approaches to automatic plagiarism detection. Then, following the line of studying the possibilities for a Web 2.0 enterprise, we describe the state of the art of opinion mining. Here we propose an algorithm for the analysis of opinions and the subsequent exchange of information between enterprises. To verify the effectiveness of the algorithm we present some experiments in the domain of tourism.
Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems

As the authors note in the Preface, “Courses on Quality are generally taught in two different ways: ‘technique-oriented’ courses that emphasize statistical tools, and ‘management-oriented’ courses that stress the managerial aspects of quality. This book is intended as a main text for a managerial-oriented course on quality. ” For the statistical approach, the authors refer you to their other book, Statistical Quality Control: Strategies and Tools for Continual Improvement (Ledolter and Burrill 1999). The book does an excellent job of achieving its objective. Through a large number of examples and case studies, it covers a wide range of managerial topics in 624 pages, six sections of 24 chapters. The sections are “Introduction to Quality,” “Process View of Quality,” “Management Issues in Achieving Quality,” “Stabilizing Quality,” “Improving Quality,” and “Conclusion— Optimism for the Future. ” There is also an appendix with eight case studies. I was surprised that there were no mentions of the ASQ Certi ed Quality Manager certi cation since the book covers most, if not all, of the topics needed for that certi cation. It also covers not just manufacturing quality but “all aspects of quality: quality of goods, services and information. ” There are more services and information examples than in most comparable books. There are many examples in the text and many exercises and additional readings at the end of each chapter. Since the book was copyrighted in 1999, there are even exercises speci cally asking for an Internet browser search. Although this part of the book is very up to date, many of the examples are not. Chapter 3 uses examples ranging from 1982–1993. Although they may be good examples, I wonder if the improvements noted have been maintained. The examples are also a good mix of Japanese and American companies— although with the current problems in Japan I would have like have preferred to see even fewer Japanese examples. Section IV on stabilizing quality has four chapters devoted to various statistical methods. Since this is not a statistically focused book, the topics are covered with a minimum of mathematics. However, they are covered in the depth appropriate for a management course. Interpretations are given, and shortcomings are noted. The book even covers new statistical topics like Cpm and Six-Sigma. In fact the entire book gives a very balanced description of various topics. Chapter 6 gives de nitions of quality by Deming, Juran, Feigenbaum, Crosby, Ishikawa, and ISO 8402. Each de nition includes a discussion. For example, the Deming discussion notes “some troublesome inconsistencies in Deming’s comments,” and Juran’s de nition includes a 1993 modi cation. It is good to see that all points of view are covered and each is critiqued. Overall this a very good, balanced, and comprehensive management book. Even the statistical quality control section is very well done. I recommend this as a college textbook or as a manager’s reference. It could even be used to supplement study for the ASQ Certi ed Quality Manager.
Revenue Forecast Errors in the European Union

In this paper we assess the determinants of revenue forecast errors for the EU-15 between 1999 and 2012, based on the forecasts published bi-annually by the European Commission. Our results show that personal income rate changes increase the revenue forecast errors: for forecasts made in t for t, increases in the corporate tax rate implies a decrease in the revenue forecast errors, in t+1 and t+2. Moreover, an increase in GDP forecast errors decreases revenue errors, whereas an increase in the inflation error will increase revenue errors. GDP errors, minority governments, election year and corporate tax rate changes can be associated with optimistic revenue forecasts. On the other hand, yield, inflation errors and VAT tax rate changes are associated with more prudent forecast behaviour.
Recreation, tourism, and the local residents: partnership or co-existence?

As the field of parks and recreation management grows, the recreation professional is confronted with a variety of new challenges. These challenges include increased emphasis on community involvement and a growing relationship between recreation and tourism. This study utilized a community survey to gain resident input into the development of a comprehensive recreation management plan. It looked at urban resident perceptions towards tourism in the Mississippi River corridor through the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The results identified several variables that impacted tourism perceptions. These variables included: personal benefits, personal costs, and proximity to the river. No significant relationship was found between length of time the respondents lived in the Twin Cities and tourism perception. A mutual support for environmental preservation and economic development also was found. The need for partnership planning, including tourism professionals, recreation professionals, and the general public are discussed. Public education, education of tourism and recreation professionals, and an increased knowledge of the community were suggested strategies needed to develop strong partnerships.
A business engineering approach to client relationship management in a knowledge based firm

This thesis examines Customer Relationship Management and how the capabilities of an organisation to innovate can be enhanced via its implementation in a Knowledge Based Firm. The research identifies current customer knowledge components within an organisation and identifies for future use, CRM components for implementation within a Knowledge Based Firm. Opinions from a panel of experts' are identified for best practice customer relationship strategy, the most important CRM processes and identification of customer knowledge components that will form the basis of implementing a successful CRM to gain a competitive advantage through enhancing the innovative capability for a Knowledge Based Firm.
Corporate In-House Legal Counsel as Voluntary Governance Mechanism and Quality of Voluntary Disclosure: The Case of Management Earnings Forecast

The key role of corporate in-house legal counsel as a voluntary governance mechanism is to advise managers on various matters including regulations, legal issues, and litigation risk and to monitor managers' behavior against shareholders' interest. Using the in-house status of counsel as a proxy for a firm's perception of the importance of self-governance and legal security, we find that firms with high-status counsel issue more frequent management earnings forecasts and that their forecasts are less biased and more accurate than those issued by other firms. Consistent with this, the stock price reaction to forecast news is stronger for the former firms. Together, the results suggest that the role of in-house counsel is positively related to the level and quality of management forecast disclosure.
The Valuation of Romania Agriculture in the European Context of Sustainable Development through Data Envelopment Analysis

Romanian agriculture has a high productive potential owned to the existent agricultural area and to the employed population. The sustainable development of agriculture implies protecting the environment, improving quality of life in the rural area, manufacturing agricultural products based on green principles, but also practicing an efficient and competitive agriculture, based on high economic efficiency. Improving performance and competitiveness targets the efficient use of production factors in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) represents an opportunity to assess the performance of socio-economic systems, necessary to justify decisions to allot resources and to rationally establish the objectives in this sector. This method is used by the paper to show the current sustainable development stage of Romanian agriculture compared to the average level recorded by EU agriculture, which represents a goal for Romania for a medium-term time horizon. DEA confirms the information originated from the analysis of statistical indicators regarding the considerable gap between the performances of Romanian agriculture and the ones of the EU concerning the efficient use of land and labour force. The results of the analysis may serve to justify decisions regarding organizational, technical and economic changes that must be done through the agricultural policy of Romania to increase efficiency and competitiveness in this important sector of the national economy.
Extensor Mechanism Macrotraumatic Complications

Summary: Macrotraumatic extensor mechanism complications do occur after central third patellar tendon harvest for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction and include intra- or postoperative patella fracture and patellar tendon rupture. These are significant complications that often require additional surgery. Intraoperative precision when harvesting the patellar tendon, bone grafting the donor sites and implementing contemporary postoperative rehabilitation and bracing protocols may minimize their occurrence.
Simulation of spatial dependence in daily rainfall using multisite generators

A new approach for modeling the spatial dependence in rainfall occurrence is proposed. Being motivated by a technique for coupling Markov chains in interacting particle systems, it differs from existing approaches that only attempt to reproduce pairwise spatial correlations of rainfall occurrences or apply complex nonlinear models. It has the advantage of directly modeling the joint dependence among Markov chains for rainfall occurrence at multisites in a parsimonious manner. The proposed approach is integrated into a simple multisite rainfall generator, with rainfall amount at an individual site modeled by a chain‐dependent process. This generator is applied to estimate the spatial dependence in daily rainfall at a small number of sites within a catchment in New Zealand. In this case study, besides the spatial correlation in rainfall occurrence, the joint probability distribution of rainfall occurrence and the spatial correlation of rainfall intensity are also simulated reasonably well.
Simultaneous Trajectory Estimation and Planning via Probabilistic Inference

We provide a unified probabilistic framework for trajectory estimation and planning. The key idea is to view these two problems, usually considered separately, as a single problem. At each time-step the robot is tasked with finding the complete continuous-time trajectory from start to goal. This can be quite difficult; the robot must contend with a potentially high-degreeof-freedom (DOF) trajectory space, uncertainty due to limited sensing capabilities, model inaccuracy, and the stochastic effect of executing actions, and the robot must find the solution in (faster than) real time. To overcome these challenges, we build on recent probabilistic inference approaches to continuous-time localization and mapping and continuous-time motion planning. We solve the joint problem by iteratively recomputing the maximum a posteriori trajectory conditioned on all available sensor data and cost information. Finally, we evaluate our framework empirically in both simulation and on a mobile manipulator.
Inter-firm Trust and Access to Financing

All cross-transactions among firms require an element of trust, meaning that in areas where a mutual trust is high, moral hazard problems associated with contract enforcement would be relatively low. This is true even in circumstances where third party enforcement is well institutionalized and market-supporting institutions are more advanced. Although it has rarely been studied empirically, the role of trust on financial development is recognized as one of the important mechanisms through which social capital fosters economic development. In our study, we investigate the association between inter-firm trust and access to bank financing for 11,500 firms across developing and transitional countries. Our empirical analyses suggest that enterprises in countries with high levels of inter-firm trust are more likely to obtain bank loans and less likely to report access to financing as a major obstacle to their business growth. This result remains robust with the inclusion of many controls and various specification checks as well as econometric adjustments for the potential endogeneity of trust and access to financing.
Incidence of cardiac arrhythmias during intravenous pentamidine therapy in HIV-infected patients.

STUDY OBJECTIVE There have been 15 published cases of probable pentamidine-induced torsade de pointes (TdP). A prospective analysis of this complication of therapy is valuable considering the high frequency of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the AIDS population, and the role of pentamidine in its therapy. DESIGN Open, nonrandomized, prospective study of HIV-infected patients receiving intravenous pentamidine in a 12-month period. SETTING Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a tertiary care, referral-based facility in Washington, DC. PATIENTS Eighteen HIV-infected patients were enrolled with informed consent; four were withdrawn from statistical analysis after receiving only one or two doses of empiric intravenously administered pentamidine. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Daily 12-lead electrocardiography, echocardiography, weekly signal-averaged electrocardiography, and weekly 24-h ambulatory electrocardiography were performed on each patient. Of the 14 subjects, 3 developed TdP. These 3 patients and 2 others developed a prolonged rate corrected, QT interval (QTc) to greater than 0.48 s (max QTc mean, 0.55 s, mean increase, 0.12 s). The QTc prolongation was noted in all five patients by the fourth daily dose (4 mg/kg/d) of pentamidine. The other 9 patients developed minimal change in QTc intervals throughout therapy (max QTc mean, 0.45 s; mean increase, 0.03 s). The maximum QTc increase was significantly different between these two cohorts (p < 0.03). The occurrence of TdP in the subgroup of patients developing prolonged QTc intervals to greater than 0.48 s (3 of 5 patients), or a change in QTc of greater than 0.08 s (3 of 4 patients) over individual baseline also was significant (p = 0.03 and p = 0.01, respectively). No baseline clinical variables associated with TdP or QTc prolongation were identified. CONCLUSION Intravenously administered pentamidine frequently results in QTc prolongation with a subsequent risk of TdP in HIV-infected patients. All patients treated with intravenously administered pentamidine should be evaluated with baseline and daily ECGs, at least during the first week of therapy, and should be closely monitored for a change in the QT interval. An increase in QTc to above 0.48 s or greater than 0.08 s above baseline carries a significant risk for proarrhythmia, and in this instance, continuous electrocardiographic monitoring or an alternative antibiotic regimen should be considered.
Simple Cloning via Direct Transformation of PCR Product (DNA Multimer) to Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis

ABSTRACT We developed a general restriction enzyme-free and ligase-free method for subcloning up to three DNA fragments into any location of a plasmid. The DNA multimer generated by prolonged overlap extension PCR was directly transformed in Escherichia coli [e.g., TOP10, DH5α, JM109, and BL21(DE3)] and Bacillus subtilis for obtaining chimeric plasmids.
The Last Crisis before the Fed

the bulwark against financial disaster in this nation,” Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo told the members of the first Federal Reserve Board as they took their oath of office on Aug. 10, 1914. The seven men — including McAdoo, who served as the first chairman of the board — would not have to wait long for their first test. Less than two months earlier, Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist, plunging Europe into war. The United States would also be swept up in the conflict, but its first battles were waged in financial markets. European powers needed money to finance fighting, and that meant gold. At the time, the United States was a debtor nation and a minor financial power, but the warring European nations could no longer trade with each other. They quickly began selling their holdings on the New York Stock Exchange, converting dollars to gold. In June and July, the United States had nearly $70 million in net gold exports. The effect of several European nations calling in their debts simultaneously created a significant external drain on U.S. gold reserves, threatening to place constraints on banks’ ability to lend domestically. It would have been a golden opportunity for the nascent Federal Reserve to save the day. According to 19th century British economic writers Henry Thornton and Walter Bagehot, a lender of last resort could counter such a threat by raising interest rates to stem the outflow of gold to foreign nations while lending freely to sound financial institutions to satisfy domestic demand for money. The Federal Reserve System had the capacity to do just that, but there was one problem: It wasn’t actually up and running yet.
COMPENSATION FOR CONTRACTORS' HOME OFFICE OVERHEAD

This report will be of interest to state departments of transportation (DOTs) and private contractors faced with the issue of compensation for unabsorbed home office overhead because of contract delays. The report examines the issue from the perspectives of state DOTs and contractors. The focus is on the approaches used by state DOTs to compensate contractors for unabsorbed home office overhead for contract delays and contractors' perceptions of these approaches. In addition, the issues of how the federal government and the private sector address home office overhead and what case law and regulations can be involved are discussed.
Influence of cellular density on determination of EC(50) in microalgal growth inhibition tests.

Growth inhibition tests for copper were carried out on four marine microalgal species: Chlorella autotrophyca, Nannochloris atomus (Chlorophyceae), Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae), and Isochrysis aff. galbana (Primnesiophyceae). The test initial cellular densities were reduced to 50 and 10% from the recommended initial cellular density in most of standardized assays. OECD test protocol (originally described for freshwater) was adapted for seawater. The EC(50) values were reduced when initial cellular density decreased. The green algae used in this study exhibited lower sensitivity than P. tricornutum and quite lower than I. aff. galbana. The latter species was found to be very sensitive to copper. The concept of cellular toxic quote (amount of toxic per cell) is defined in order to improve the results of toxicity tests.
Slot Harmonic Impact on Rotor Losses in Fractional-Slot Permanent-Magnet Machines

Fractional-slot permanent-magnet (PM) machines have several advantages, but they suffer from the high content of space harmonics in the air-gap magnetomotive force (MMF) distribution. The MMF space harmonic amplitude and frequency depend on the particular combination of numbers of slots and poles. Such harmonics induce losses in the rotor since they are not synchronous with the rotor speed. This paper compares several kinds of machines with the same stator lamination but with different numbers of phases; three-, five-, and seven-phase PM machines are considered. Several winding configurations are compared, changing the number of poles but maintaining the same number of slots. Although in each case there is a reduction in terms of harmonic content, it is shown that rotor loss reduction is lower than expected. Some considerations about the harmonic impact are given. Although no experimental results are given, this paper refers to previous works in which rotor losses have been investigated and measured experimentally.