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A New Perspective in Understanding The Role of Information Technology Features in Technology Use Pattern
Authors: Dutta Andrew 
Published: January 2017

One of the current themes dominating the agenda of IS research is to focus on the specifics of technology without losing view on the role of human agency. Addressing this issue calls for developing an integrated theoretical perspective that would incorporate both the role of technology and human agency in explaining the technology use pattern. This paper provides a new theoretical perspective by incorporating the two views—technology and human agency. Technological determinism attributes technology use patterns to the features of the artifact, whereas the human agency perspective attributes it to the ongoing interaction of the human actors with the technology. The current call in the field of IS seeks an integration of these two opposite perspectives in future IS research. This would have strong implications for both academicians and practitioners. For example, it might help us to understand how the differences in the features of the technology being operationalized in a particular social context influence the social outcomes of technology use. It may help practising managers and technology policy makers in organizations to understand in advance the effect technology features may have on organizational life. This is more of predictive value in the sense that managers and technology policy makers may have an a priori understanding about how the technology might be used in their organization based on the sets of features that they intend to operationalize. An understanding of this may enable the organizational decision-makers to make informed decision about which category of features to operationalize so that the technology may prove compatible and invaluable in the achievement of corporate objectives. This in turn, may affect an organization's technology selection decision or their modes of implementation. This conceptual paper discusses the two opposing perspectives of attributing technology use pattern in the field of IS: Technological determinism Human agency with a focus on structuration theory and actor-network theory. It then provides a new theoretical perspective for the field of IS research. In the new perspective, the author argues that technology use is neither exclusively situated nor emergent. The usage pattern is a function of both the artifact and the human actors who appropriate the technology in their day-to-day lives. The author postulates that differences in technology features may be associated with differences in technology use pattern and the resultant social outcome if a dual focus is maintained on the artifact and the human agents. The paper also provides a discussion on the dominant research traditions in the field of IS and case study research design as a means to operationalize future research with this new perspective along with an insight as to how certain key concepts can be practically applied.
Corporate Disclosure of Intangibles: A Comparative Study of Practices among Indian, US, and Japanese Companies
Authors: Ragini  
Published: January 2017

Today, the methods which create value for companies have undergone a sea change. In the new globalized economy, when companies have edge to edge competition, the intangibles like strategies, brands, market leadership, management policies, etc., play a major role in creating value for a company. Very few intangibles are covered under the mandatory rules and regulations of accounting all over the world. Despite these regulatory limitations, an increasing number of companies are voluntarily opting to include information in their list of intangibles in the notes to their annual accounts or as an appendix in a narrative form. The narrative reporting on intangibles has not yet been regularized by various accounting authorities, but to have competitive edge in the market, a number of companies are voluntarily disclosing information on intangibles in their business review section along with the mandatory information on intangibles in the financial accounts. This study examined and compared the various disclosure practices of intangibles of the top one hundred Indian, US, and Japanese companies for a period of five years, i.e., 2001–2005. The study examined the type and extent of information on intangibles being disclosed by the companies with the help of a disclosure Index. The index of disclosure of intangibles used in this paper consisted of an extensive list of 180 items, including both mandatory as well as voluntary disclosure items. This study reveals that the countries under study, i.e., India, US, and Japan, have shown a significant improvement in their overall disclosure scores over the five year period. The Japanese companies have shown the maximum improvement of 59 per cent in the overall disclosure scores over five year period, followed by US (42 %) and Indian companies (31%). Secondly, ‘IPRS and goodwill and other intangibles’ group showed maximum increase in five years by the sample companies of all the three countries under study. On the basis of the results, it can be suggested that Indian companies need to improve their disclosure practices in the areas of ‘strategy and competition’ and ‘market and customer’. Secondly, the accounting authorities should endeavour to regularize the narrative reporting on intangibles. A number of organizations are working to improve disclosure of non-financial items. Some of them are International Accounting Standard Board (IASB), Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and European Commission (EC).
Inner Vision Toward An Architecture Of Organic Humanism
Authors: Tyng Anne Griswold 
Published: January 2017

Perception of geometry as inorganic/abstract is changed to natural/human by electron-microscopic discoveries of the geometry of molecules within us, by discoveries in the unconscious mind of archetypal geometry that orients and directs conscious attitudes and creativity. A mathematical model of random process and ordered synthesis for geometries of matter and mind is seen in a Fibonacci-Divine Proportion (F-DP) Matrix of Simultaneous Randomness and Order. Fibonacci summations of cross-sections of random probability in (2 D) Pascal Triangle and of successive slices through (3 D Pascal) Probability Pyramid (Tyng and Yanchenko) accumulate toward precise Divine Proportion connection between summations, offering possible ordered recombinations of dot patterns/information bits in morphology/creativity. Fibonacci dot patterns expanded into Fibonacci circle-packings within circles and sphere-packings within spheres produce regular polygons and regular polyhedra. The Divine Proportion extends regular Higher Solids to helix and spiral toward greater complexity and randomness, offering new possibilities for order and synethesis. Fibonacci fitting of circled rather than squared sides of right-angled triangles within next larger Fibonacci circle, and Fibonacci right-angled triangulation of sphere-packings within spheres, expands the Pythagorean Theorem to overlapping summation sequence toward Divine Proportion precision. A natural cycle of the F-DP matrix occurs in Deoxyhemoglobin molecule in relative distances between the four hemes that order its 10,000 atom complexity within simplicity. Cycles of underlying geometric order toward entropy to order correlate with changing form empathies in history and in individual human creative process. Examples in current architectural cycle show a shift from perception of geometry as inorganic to geometry expressing “growth”, human scales and orientations to geometry with a “life of its own” toward resonant life-enhancing architecture of Organic Humanism.
Clusters Of Polyhedra In Architecture
Authors: Gabriel J. Francois 
Published: January 2017

Conventional structural and building systems could not in the past bring into existence medium-rise buildings based on polyhedra. Modern technology makes it now possible to conceive and erect such buildings. One good reason to do so is that clusters of polyhedra can satisfy an essential need of architecture: the need for visual order. Too many contemporary buildings rely on a simplistic rectangular grid. The effect is, indeed, orderly, but it is also usually boring and non-hierarchical. The configuration selected here is the 12-connected network considered as a habitable three-way, multi-layer space frame. It is presented along with two variations. One is an infinite structure of three polyhedra also derived from the 12-connected network, the truncated octahedron, the cuboctahedron and the truncated tetrahedron. The other configuration is the honeycomb pattern resulting from the absorption of tetrahedron by adjacent octahedra, to which I have given the name Hexmod. Similarities and differences are identified and advantages and disadvantages of the three patterns are examined. Finally, combinations between patterns are introduced.
Product - Its Association with the Personality
Authors: Trivedi Shekhar , Pandiya Sudhanshu , Gupta Suneel 
Published: January 2017

Product Personality is the user’s profile of any product category. It connotes the style, shape, colour, design, texture, weight and sound of the product. The product personality can be constructed with the help of its different variables, i.e., colour, style, design and odour so as to add to the meaning of the intended brand personality. It development can be mainly attributed to the types of users, that the product has had over the year, cumulative effect of brand personalities of different brands, and natural associations, an age-old process. It assumes greater importance due to the difficulties encountered in the implementation of the brand personality.
Consumer Ethnocentrism and Influence of Role Model on Generational Cohorts’ Purchase Intentions towards Herbal Products
Authors: Haque Moon Moon , Maheshwari Nidhi 
Published: January 2017

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to investigate what leads customers to ethnocentrism and the effects of ethnocentrism on their attitudes towards purchase intentions. The other objective was to study product preferences of different age cohorts towards herbal products and the influence of role model on their purchase intention behaviours. Research methodology: Results are derived from primary data collected from a customer sample in New Delhi, India during the months of May–June, 2015. Data analysis was done using Statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS), version 20. Findings: This article identified that consumer ethnocentrism level differs according to age cohorts. For Baby Boomers and Generation X cohort, multiple linear regression analysis inferred that consumer ethnocentrism was the best predictor of purchase intention behaviour. In the case of Generation Y cohort, indirect role model, direct role model and consumer ethnocentrism did not significantly contribute to the purchase intention of Generation Y cohort. Practical implications: The research finding will be very useful in providing insight into Indian herbal product marketers to devise marketing strategies. The article contributes to research on consumer ethnocentrism by confirming some of the earlier findings with the help of a consumer sample from northern India. Contributions: This research study contributes to the existing literature by analysing the impact of consumer ethnocentrism and role model influence on purchase intention of customers on a diverse range of herbal product categories, using an age-cohort analysis. Research limitations: Consumers were asked to evaluate the attributes of herbal products without reference to any specific company/brand, and this could be one of the limitations of the study.
The integrin PSI domain has an endogenous thiol isomerase function and is a novel target for antiplatelet therapy
Authors: Zhu Guangheng , Zhang Qing , Reddy Emily C. , Carrim Naadiya , Chen Yunfeng , Xu Xiaohong Ruby , Xu Miao , Wang Yiming , Hou Yan , Ma Li , Li Yan , Rui Min , Petruzziello-Pellegrini Tania N. , Lavalle Christopher , Stratton Tyler W. , Lei Xi , Adili Reheman , Chen Pingguo , Zhu Cheng , Wilkins John A. , Hynes Richard O. , Freedman John , Ni Heyu 
Published: January 2017

Key PointsIntegrin PSI domain has endogenous thiol-isomerase function. Novel anti-β3 PSI antibodies inhibit PDI-like activity and platelet adhesion/aggregation, and have antithrombotic therapeutic potential.
Ecology and epizootology of trematodosis in cattle, treatment and prevention in dairy cattle farms of Vologda region
Authors: Кряжев  , Kryazhev A 
Published: January 2017

Objective of research: To study the epizootiology of trematodoses of cattle from dairy cattle farms in the Vologda region; to estimate the anthelmintic efficacy of Fascocide, Helmicide, Oxiclozanide, Albendazole, Fezole, Alben.
Materials and methods: A preliminary analysis of veterinary reports of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, the regional Stations on Fight against Diseases in Animals, meat-processing plants and slaughter units, Laboratories of Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise was carried out for the period 2005–2009 according to the Forms «1-Vet» and «5-Vet». Coproovoscopic examinations of cattle were conducted monthly to determine seasonal and age dynamics of infection. Biological features of intermediate hosts were studied by standard methods. Fascocide at the dose of 10 mg a.i./kg, Helmicide — 7,5 g/100 kg, Oxiclozanide — 5,25 mg/kg, Albendazole — 15 mg a.i./kg and Alben — 10 mg a.i./kg were used against fasciolosis and paramphistomosis in cattle under production conditions in dairy farms and complexes of Vologda region.
Results and discussion: The rates of trematode infection in various climatic and geographic zones of the region are different. The highest level of infection was registered in the North Eastern and South Eastern zones, and the lowest — in the South Western.
Adult cattle are infected with Fasciola hepatica, Paramhistomum cervi and P. ichikawai all year round; the maximum peak of infection is registered in winter and spring seasons. First signs of trematode infection in calves of the first grazing season are observed at the beginning of the pasture season, which is the evidence for the overwintering of helminth larvae in intermediate hosts. Trematode infections manifest commonly as mixed infections.
First individuals of Lymnaea truncatula and Planorbis planorbis appear in biotopes in the second decade of May, reaching the maximum number in August. Their infection with trematode parthenites is observed in the period from the first half of June to October; the maximum peak of infection — in August. The most effective preparations for dehelmintization against Fasciola spp. and Paramhistomum spp. are Fascocide, Helmicide and Fezole.
Indirect Detection Method of Rotor Position Based on DE-SVM
Authors: Wang Bo , Ji Xiaofu , Cai Jihe 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
In view of the defects and deficiencies of existing detection methods of rotor position for Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM), an indirect Detection Method (DM) based on DE-SVM for Support Vector Machine (SVM) rotor position is proposed. This method uses the three-phase current and flux linkage within the full angle domain of SRM as input and rotor position angle as output, and utilizes the strong nonlinear mapping capability of SVM to create a predication model for these three parameters offline. The strong global optimization capability of Differential Evolution (DE) Algorithm is then employed based on the deviation between actual rotor position and model output to optimize the prediction model online, thereby realizing sensorless detection of SRM rotor position. The simulation result shows that this method can accurately predict the position of SRM rotor.
Realization of Humanoid Robot Playing Golf
Authors: Wu Xibao , Chen Wenbai , Li Weichen 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
Aiming at the golf tournament technical requirements in International Humanoid robot Olympic Game (IHOG), two-freedom-degrees “head & eye” system based on monocular vision robot MF-AI is developed. The new robot equipped with the “head & eye” system can identify the location of the golf ball and the hole, and can measure the distance of the two objects. Experiments show that the two-freedom-degrees “head & eye” system improves the accuracy of hitting the golf ball into the hole. Moreover, the system can identify the target, can calibrate distances, can measure robot’s moving and look for the hole, can adjust the position of the robot and hit the ball effectively.
On a class of analytic functions generated by fractional integral operator
Authors: Ibrahim Rabha W. 
Published: February 2017

Abstract
In this note, we improve the idea of the Tsallis entropy in a complex domain. This improvement is contingent on the fractional operator in a complex domain (type Alexander). We clarify some new classes of analytic functions, which are planned in view of the geometry function theory. This category of entropy is called fractional entropy; accordingly, we demand them fractional entropic geometry classes. Other geometric properties are established in the sequel. Our exhibition is supported by the Maxwell Lemma and Jack Lemma.
Calculation of the Spontaneous Polarization and the Dielectric Constant for the Ferroelectric N(CH3)4HSO4 Using the Mean Field Model
Authors: Yurtseven H. , Celik M. , Karacali H. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThe temperature dependences of the spontaneous polarization and the dielectric constant (susceptibility) are calculated using the mean field model for the ferroelectric N(CH3)4HSO4. Expressions derived from the mean field model for the spontaneous polarization and the inverse susceptibility are fitted to the experimental data from the literature. The fitting parameters in the expansion of the free energy in terms of the spontaneous polarization are determined within the temperature intervals in the ferroelectric and paraelectric phases of N(CH3)4HSO4. Our results show that the temperature dependences of the spontaneous polarization and the dielectric constant as predicted from our mean field model, describe adequately the observed behavior of N(CH3)4HSO4 in the ferroelectric and paraelectric phases.
Efficient Visible Light Induced Degradation of the Brightener Tinopal CBS-X. Accelerated Bacterial Adsorption Observed after Photocatalytic Pretreatment
Authors: Pulgarin Cesar O. , Peringer Paul A. , Kiwi John T. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThe experimental results for the photocatalytic degradation of Tinopal CBS-X Disodium 4,4′-bis(2-sulfostyryl) biphenyl has been studied via the Fenton reaction. In a typical run, irradiation of a solution containing Tinopal CBS-X (5 10
Non-Thermal Plasma Processing for VOCs Decomposition and NOx Removal in Flue Gas
Authors: Oda Tetsuji , Takahashi Tadashi , Yamashita Ryuichi 
Published: January 2017

AbstractDecomposition performance of non-thermal plasma for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), chlorohydrocarbon and other typical organic materials, were studied experimentally. DeNOx process of the non-thermal plasma for the flue gas was also tested. Frequency dependence of plasma exciting voltage including pulse and AC, humidity effects (OH radical effects) on the plasma processing and reactor geometry effects were studied to understand the decomposition mechanism and optimize the power efficiency of the processing. 500 Hz or 1kHz excitation is found to be the upper limit to realize good decomposition efficiency of VOCs or good reduction of NOx. Higher frequency causes other loss by heating residual ions. Pulse excitation was much better than the AC excitation, especially at the high decomposition rate of the VOCs.
Barrier Discharge Optimization for Nitric Oxide Destruction
Authors: Rogers John W. , Nejezchleb Allen J. , Rolader Glenn E. , Federle Steven P. , Littrell Donald M. , Neely William C. , Newhouse E. Irene 
Published: January 2017

AbstractConcern over smog and acid rain has created a need for innovative technologies that destroy or remove nitric oxide (NO) from many gas streams. One promising technology is the Non-Thermal Plasma Discharge (NTPD). Although NTPDs have been used to oxidize and reduce NO, previous studies found that these devices required a non-competitive amount of electrical energy input, preventing their wide-spread application. In this paper, we report on our experimental investigation into techniques to increase the efficiency of NTPDs. Specifically, two approaches were investigated. The first approach considered was the upstream injection of chemical additives. It is known that certain additives increase the chemical efficiency of desired reactions, thus reducing the required electrical energy. Several additives were tested, and their effect is summarized in this paper. It was found that upstream injection of ethanol in a diesel exhaust stream reduced the energy requirement from more than 150 electron volts (eV) per NO molecule oxidized to less than 20 eV per NO molecule oxidized. In addition, ethanol was found to produce no precipitate on the dielectrics that can lead to electrode failure. The second approach investigated was varying the dielectric material on a Double Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DDBD), a type of NTPD. Several dielectrics were tested and their effect is reported. It was found that, with the ethanol injection, using Teflon PFA instead of glass dielectrics reduces the energy requirement from approximately 22 eV per NO molecule oxidized to 17 eV per NO molecule oxidized. In addition, the Teflon PFA coated electrodes were more durable than typical glass electrodes. Techniques, experiments, and conclusions are presented in this paper.
Photoinduced Degradation of Environmental Pollutants in the Presence of O2-Free Ozone
Authors: Schutt Wendy S. , Feng Kesheng , Bousman Kenneth S. , Gao Ning , Li Yuzhuo 
Published: January 2017

AbstractPhotoinduced degradation of anthracene, perylene, phenanthrene, pyrene, and potassium ferricyanide in water were monitored spectroscopically. Three types of gas stream (ozone/nitrogen, oxygen/nitrogen, and ozoneoxygen/ nitrogen) were used to supply oxidants to the aqueous solutions. The use of an O
Radiolytic Reduction and Oxidation of Diethyl benzylphosphonate: A Pulse Radiolysis Study
Authors: Aguila Ailette , Ο'Shea Kevin Ε. , Kamat Prashant V. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThe radiolytic reactions of the diethyl benzylphosphonate (DEBP) have been investigated upon reaction with pulse radiolytically generated e
Photodegradation of Phenol in Water using Silica-Supported Titania Catalysts
Authors: Alemany Luis J. , Bañares Miguel A. , Martin Francisco , Galan-Fereres Mercedes , Blasco Jose M. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractTitania-coated silica microspheres containing between 0.5 and 3.0 theoretical layers of TiO