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Communications of the Association for Information Systems Communications of the Association for Information Systems

: Recent phenomena such as IT consumerization, bring your own device, and shadow IT describe employees who introduce new technologies into their organizations rather than resist technological change. We research the underlying mechanism that drives employees to introduce new private technology into their working environment. In our study, we intentionally separate the impact that organizational IS performance and private technology use have on satisfaction with organizational IS and consider satisfaction’s dynamics as a fundamental aspect in our research model. As a theoretical contribution, we suggest that familiarity with superior private technological alternatives for organizational IS decreases satisfaction with organizational IS and, thus, fosters behavioral change. In our empirical study, we found interaction effects that indicate that innovative employees, in contrast to non-innovative employees, reach a higher satisfaction level in situations with high organizational IS performance. Furthermore, we found that non-inert employees, in contrast to inert employees, become dissatisfied with organizational IS when they experience well-performing IS in their private environments.
Multiresolution Approach to Subpixel Registration by Linear Approximation of PSF

(PSF) is a new method for determining subpixel translations between images. The problem with the actual algorithm is the inability of determining translations larger than 1 pixel. In this paper a multiresolution technique is proposed to deal with the problem. Its performance is evaluated by comparison with two other well known registration method. In the proposed technique the images are downsampled in order to have a wider view. Progressively decreasing the downsampling rate up to the initial resolution and using linear approximation technique at each step, the algorithm is able to determine translations of several pixels in subpixel levels.
ENHANCEMENT OF AVAILABLE TRANSFER CAPABILITY WITH FACTS DEVICE IN COMPETITIVE POWER MARKET

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A modified O-Tree based packing algorithm and its applications

In this paper, we propose a new packing algorithm based on O-Tree representation that can reduce the time cost of turning an O-Tree into an admissible O-Tree and decoding it into a placement. By introducing a vertical contour into our algorithm, we replace the OT2OCG (O-Tree To its Orthogonal Constraint Graph) and CG2OT (Constrained Graph To O-Tree) procedures by a single OT2PL one with 50% timesaving in practical cases. Our algorithm can be applied to various problems such as placement with boundary constraint and with rectilinear blocks. A genetic algorithm is used to solve both problems and we additionally insert a block as an internal node of O-Tree without increasing the time complexity when perturbing the O-Tree. The effectiveness of our algorithm is justified by experimental results.
Integrating Agents and Web Services into Cooperative Design Platform of Vehicle Headlights

Web-based distributed cooperative design is an important technology in the computer supported advanced manufacturing. After analyzing the advantages and drawbacks of the existing research and work, this paper presents an agent-based cooperative design platform which utilizes Web service to realize interoperability in vehicle headlights design. Compared with other strategies, we put emphases on real-time communication between designers and high speed browse of all models. Our platform also has a good compatibility with various model-design kits by adopting intelligent agents. The proposed approach provides designers with excellent human-computer interaction, more flexibility and enables distributed collaborators to cooperate efficiently. The platform can greatly shorten product development period as well as time to market.
Improving direct - mapped cache performance by the addition of a small fully - associative cache an

A mounting element is disclosed, for use in supporting a reversible cutting tip in a tool body. The supporting element comprises a cylindrical portion configured to be inserted radially into a tool body and form an axial mounting for the tool tip. An arm portion is connected to the projects at substantially a right angle therefrom to form a radial mounting for the tool tip.
Learning with Muscles: Beneﬁts for Data-Efﬁciency and Robustness in Anthropomorphic Tasks

A.1 Muscle model in Mujoco Even though the MuJoCo simulator includes the capability of simulating muscles, it requires the explicit definition of tendon insertion points and wrapping surfaces for each model. We, therefore, use our own muscle implementation for the MuJoCo experiments, that does not contain tendons. As a direct consequence, the muscle-fiber length is uniquely determined by the joint angle. In the following, we describe activation dynamics, definitions of muscle-fiber length and velocity, the computation of the resulting torque and the parametrization.
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLEDGE Effective Video Multicast Over TDMA-Based Dual Homing Wireless Mesh Networks

minimum length schedule which satisfies required video quality demands of receivers. the rate allocation algorithm adjusts the transmission rate of each relay node to obtain a feasible schedule. For video multicasting, I am interested in the construction of a multicast tree which satisfies the heterogeneous demand rates of receiver nodes. The tree has to minimize the total transmission rates of all relay nodes such that the schedule length of time slots is minimized. Services such as internet radio, high definition video or audio streaming are very useful for network users, but often require a lot of bandwidth, which can be costly [1]. To reduce maintenance and investment cost, the concept of overlay multicasting is applied. An overlay multicasting technology is based on a multicast delivery tree consisting of peers (end hosts). Also known as End System or Peer-to-Peer Multicast. High bandwidth multi-source multicast among widely distributed nodes is a critical capability for a wide range of applications including audio and video conferencing, multi-party games and content distribution. Throughout the last decade, a number of research projects have explored the use of multicast as an efficient and scalable mechanism to support
Filter Design Masks for C37.118.1a-Compliant Frequency-Tracking and Fixed-Filter M-Class Phasor Measurement Units

The new amendment to the phasor measurement unit (PMU) standard C37.118. 1a makes several significant changes compared with the standard C37.118. 1 (2011). This paper highlights some of the most important changes, with a particular emphasis applied to how those changes relate to the way that an M-class PMU filter needs to be designed. In particular, there is a delicate tradeoff between passband flatness (the bandwidth test) and stopband rejection in the out-of-band (OOB) test. For a PMU algorithm using frequency-tracking and adaptive filters, it is shown that passband flatness can be relaxed to about 2.5 dB, but that the stopband needs to begin up to 14.8% closer to 0 Hz than for a fixed-filter PMU. This is partly due to the exact procedures of the C37.118. 1a OOB testing and partly due to the adaptive nature of a frequency-tracking PMU filter section. Both the above lead to modified filter masks being required for frequency-tracking devices compared with the mask required for fixed-filter devices. The M-class PMU with a reporting rate of 25 Hz is the most difficult to design, for reasons given in this paper. The validity of the masks is shown using filter Bode plots and simulated C37.118. 1a test results of a fixed-filter and frequency-tracking device, which have been designed to meet the masks defined in this paper.
A reference dataset of 5 . 4 million phased human variants validated by genetic inheritance from sequencing a three-generation 17-member pedigree

Improvement of variant calling in next-generation sequence data requires a comprehensive, genomewide catalogue of high-confidence variants called in a set of genomes for use as a benchmark. We generated deep, whole-genome sequence data of seventeen individuals in a three-generation pedigree and called variants in each genome using a range of currently available algorithms. We used haplotype transmission information to create a phased “platinum” variant catalogue of 4.7 million single nucleotide variants (SNVs) plus 0.7 million small (1-50bp) insertions and deletions (indels) that are consistent with the pattern of inheritance in the parents and eleven children of this pedigree. Platinum genotypes are highly concordant with the current catalogue of the National Institute of Standards and Technology for both SNVs (>99.99%) and indels (99.92%), and add a validated truth catalogue that has 26% more SNVs and 45% more indels. Analysis of 334,652 SNVs that were consistent between informatics pipelines yet inconsistent with haplotype transmission (“non-platinum”) revealed that the majority of these variants are de novo and cell-line mutations or reside within previously unidentified duplications and deletions. The reference materials from this study are a resource for objective assessment of the accuracy of variant calls throughout genomes.
Forms and processes of information systems evolution Conference or Workshop Item

The way in which software evolves over time has been much studied and is now fairly well-understood. What has been less thoroughly studied are the processes by which information systems – containing software as one component, but also with significant human and organisational aspects – evolve. In many organisations, few information systems are built at all from scratch, but rather are modified from or built on top of existing ones or bolted together from third-party components. In practice, the old division between design, implementation and maintenance has largely disappeared. In this paper, I discuss the nature of IS evolution. I make a distinction between planned (intentional and strategic) evolution, for which we can formulate a clear process; and unplanned (emergent and externally-driven) evolution, where we can simply study the dynamics of the process and be ready for events.
Human ARF4 expression rescues sec7 mutant yeast cells

Vesicle-mediated traffic between compartments of the yeast secretory pathway involves recruitment of multiple cytosolic proteins for budding, targeting, and membrane fusion events. The SEC7 gene product (Sec7p) is a constituent of coat structures on transport vesicles en route to the Golgi complex in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To identify mammalian homologs of Sec7p and its interacting proteins, we used a genetic selection strategy in which a human HepG2 cDNA library was transformed into conditional-lethal yeast sec7 mutants. We isolated several clones capable of rescuing sec7 mutant growth at the restrictive temperature. The cDNA encoding the most effective suppressor was identified as human ADP ribosylation factor 4 (hARF4), a member of the GTPase family proposed to regulate recruitment of vesicle coat proteins in mammalian cells. Having identified a Sec7p-interacting protein rather than the mammalian Sec7p homolog, we provide evidence that hARF4 suppressed the sec7 mutation by restoring secretory pathway function. Shifting sec7 strains to the restrictive temperature results in the disappearance of the mutant Sec7p cytosolic pool without apparent changes in the membrane-associated fraction. The introduction of hARF4 to the cells maintained the balance between cytosolic and membrane-associated Sec7p pools. These results suggest a requirement for Sec7p cycling on and off of the membranes for cell growth and vesicular traffic. In addition, overexpression of the yeast GTPase-encoding genes ARF1 and ARF2, but not that of YPT1, suppressed the sec7 mutant growth phenotype in an allele-specific manner. This allele specificity indicates that individual ARFs are recruited to perform two different Sec7p-related functions in vesicle coat dynamics.
ISC Paper Template in A4 (V1)

Off-line writer identification requires transferring the text under consideration into an image file. This represents the only available solution to bring the printed materials to the electronic media. However, the transferring process causes the system to lose the temporal information of that text, which it can be gathered in on-line writer identification. Various techniques have been implemented to achieve high identification rates. These techniques have tackled different aspects of the identification system. Importance of writer identification system is to help mainly in forensic fields, historical document analysis and handwriting recognition system enhancement. Unfortunately, the Arabic writer identification system not achieves a satisfaction rate yet whereas certain process of features and classification still not recognized. Keywords— Arabic writer identification, Feature extraction, Classification, Off-line writer identification, Document Image Analysis.
A class of additive transformation models for recurrent gap times

Abstract The gap time between recurrent events is often of primary interest in many fields such as medical studies, and in this article, we discuss regression analysis of the gap times arising from a general class of additive transformation models. For the problem, we propose two estimation procedures, the modified within-cluster resampling (MWCR) method and the weighted risk-set (WRS) method, and the proposed estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically follow the normal distribution. In particular, the estimators have closed forms and can be easily determined, and the methods have the advantage of leaving the correlation among gap times arbitrary. A simulation study is conducted for assessing the finite sample performance of the presented methods and suggests that they work well in practical situations. Also the methods are applied to a set of real data from a chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) clinical trial.
MOTION ESTIMATION AND VIDEO COMPRESSION

We propose a method for video compression using 2-D motion estimation by using optical flow equation and quantization techniques. Optical flow cannot be computed locally, as only one independent measurement is available from the image sequence at a point. However flow velocity has 2 components in either direction. Thus we need a second constraint to calculate it. We assume that the images are composed of moving blocks. Thus we divide the image frame into blocks of equal size, perform block motion estimation on each block and obtain motion vectors. We start by taking a video sequence, extract frames and divide each frame into blocks of equal size. Further we divide each block into 9 equal sub-blocks and calculate the mean square error between the center pixel of each block in frame k to all the pixels in the respectively blocks in frame k+1. By repeating this procedure for all the blocks, we obtain the motion vectors, which are in turn are used to generate an estimate of the next frame. We quantize the difference between the original successive frame and the predicted frame. Adding this quantized error to the predicted frame gives estimated reconstructed video.
The SCREAM Approach for Efficient Distributed Scheduling with Physical Interference in Wireless Mesh Networks

It is known that CSMA/CA channel access schemes are not well suited to meet the high traffic demand of wireless mesh networks. One possible way to increase traffic carrying capacity is to use a spatial TDMA (STDMA) approach in conjunction with the physical interference model, which allows more aggressive scheduling than the protocol interference model on which CSMA/CA is based. While an efficient centralized solution for STDMA with physical interference has been recently proposed, no satisfactory distributed approaches have been introduced so far. In this paper, we first prove that no localized distributed algorithm can solve the problem of building a feasible schedule under the physical interference model. Motivated by this, we design a global primitive, called SCREAM, which is used to verify the feasibility of a schedule during an iterative distributed scheduling procedure. Based on this primitive, we present two distributed protocols for efficient, distributed scheduling under the physical interference model, and we prove an approximation bound for one of the protocols. We also present extensive packet-level simulation results, which show that our protocols achieve schedule lengths very close to those of the centralized algorithm and have running times that are practical for mesh networks.
Auswirkung von Spätbruten auf Mauser und Rückkehrrate bei einem Weitstreckenzieher, dem Steinschmätzer (Oenanthe oenanthe)

Steinschmätzer sind Weitstreckenzieher, die südlich der Sahara überwintern. Von Anfang April bis zum Wegzug im frühen September verbringen sie ca. 150 Tage im Brutgebiet. Sie können in Deutschland zwei Bruten aufziehen, die Häufigkeit von Zweitbruten ist aber von Jahr zu Jahr unterschiedlich und auch vom Brutgebiet abhängig (Suter 1988; Buchmann 2001). Vor dem Abzug aus dem Brutgebiet durchlaufen adulte Steinschmätzer eine komplette Mauser. Man sollte annehmen, dass die Mauser von anderen saisonalen Aktivitäten weitestgehend getrennt wird, da nur ein voll funktionsfähiges Gefieder bei der Jagd nach Insekten eine optimale Versorgung der Jungen ermöglicht. Ähnliches gilt für den Zug, da schwer vorstellbar ist, dass Zugvögel ihre Reise mit noch wachsenden Federn antreten. Ein genauerer Blick in die Literatur (Suter 1988; Payne 1972; Foster 1975; Orell & Ojanen 1980; Daan et al. 1989; Hahn et al. 1992; Jenni & Winkler 1994; Flinks et al. 2008) macht aber deutlich, dass es bei vielen Arten durchaus zu Überschneidungen kommen kann, sowohl zwischen Brut und Mauser als auch zwischen Mauser und Zug. Dies wird begründet mit einer Abwägung der Vorteile einer längeren Brut bzw. eines zeitigeren Abzuges gegenüber den Nachteilen einer Überschneidung dieser Aktivitäten mit der Mauser. Für Weitstreckenzieher wie den Steinschmätzern, die nur relativ wenig Zeit im Brutgebiet verbringen, sind Auswirkung von Spätbruten auf Mauser und Rückkehrrate bei einem Weitstreckenzieher, dem Steinschmätzer (Oenanthe oenanthe)
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We integrated a job demands-resources model and substitutes for leadership theory to examine the moderated effect of leader–member exchange on the indirect relationship between challenge stressors and job performance mediated by job engagement. Furthermore, we used stress mindset to examine the three-way moderated effect in the aforementioned relationship. Data were collected from 487employees from the different occupations in Taiwan. Statistical analysis results supported the moderated mediation effect and the three-way interaction effect. The findings suggest that when supervisors’ social support resources are weak, positive stress mindset can instead be a key resource for an employee’s positive work motivation.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence the adoption of cloud computing. We draw on the literature from technology acceptance model and cloud computing to develop our adoption model for cloud computing. We further empirically test our model using partial least square (PLS) regression analysis and present our results. Our results indicate performance expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions to be correlated to behavioral intention to use cloud computing. These results have theoretical and practical implications.
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Information technology development has been highly related to organizational innovation and business development. Information technology fashion reflects the organizational IT adoption and its business innovation capability. Based upon the theory of management fashion (Abrahamson 1996), this research explores information technology fashion from the internal and external perspectives. In particular, we propose a theoretical model to examine how organizational dynamic capability impacts information technology fashion which furthermore shapes the organizational performance. Accordingly, we propose 5 hypotheses that are to be empirically investigated in the future.
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In recent times, lean principles is getting applied in service domains such as software development and healthcare. But, in the domain of education services, very few studies exist discussing the procedure and outcomes of Lean Thinking (LT) implementation. This study is an attempt in this direction to experience the implementation of LT in education sector by adopting Participative Action Research Methodology (PARM). PARM was conducted for a period of 28 months in a business school to study various processes, especially the learning process in the institute and identify wastes prevailing in them. Following it, solutions from the armory of LT were implemented to remove the wastes. Performance measures are compared before and after LT implementation to assess the outcome of implementation of lean practices.
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Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000) is currently considered the most important corporate social responsibility. After about 10 years of research on SA8000, this paper provides the first comprehensive literature review on this topic. We identified and classified 49 papers, highlighting and discussing the main research fields concerning SA8000: advantages of the adoption of the ethical certification, obstacles to adoption and management, comparison with ISO standards, and comparison with other CSR models. Building on these findings, we present various theoretical, methodological, and thematic gaps and propose a research agenda.
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This study attempts to examine the effect of determinants influencing the performance of commercial banks in India after the global financial crises. The random effect model on balanced panel data for the period 2010-2016 was performed to determine the impact of the macroeconomic and CAMEL factors on the ROE of the commercial banks. Results suggest that the bank internal factors like the capital adequacy, NPAs and liquidity explain a significant part of the bank profitability. The macro economic factors like GDP, IIP and inflation were insignificant on the banks profitability.