Although recently a lot of attention has been devoted to IT project portfolio management in theory as well as in practice, research in this area is particularly focused on approaches for project selection. Related tasks and especially the organizational environment in which IT project portfolio management is embedded are often excluded. This paper relates existing findings from the field of IT ...

In this paper, we examine religiosity as one determinant of tax avoidance by corporate and individual taxpayers. Prior research suggests a relation between religiosity and risk aversion. Because aggressive tax avoidance strategies involve significant uncertainty and possible penalties and damage to reputation, we predict that higher levels of religiosity are associated with less aggressive (i.e...

The effects of screen contrast ratio, luminance level, and their interaction on visual lobe shape were examined in this study. The results showed that luminance level showed noticeable effects only on lobe perimeter. Though slightly larger area was noted upon increasing luminance level, none of the other shape parameters were significantly affected. The luminance level and its interaction with ...

It has been generally observed that the credit period has become a major concern for most of retailers, as it not only has direct influence on inventory and finance, but also on the demand of an item. Unfortunately, for deteriorating items, the impact of the credit period on demand has not received much attention in the literature, whereas in reality, the length of the credit period offered by ...

Holocene sea-level reconstructions exist from many locations in the Indo-Pacific region. Despite being a large geographical region, the nature of Holocene sea-level change is broadly similar in all locations. Differences do exist, however, in the timing and magnitude of the Mid-Holocene High Stand (MHHS) and the nature of late Holocene sea level fall across the region. When the Indo-Pacific is ...

Humans can r e c o v e r t h e shape o f a s u r f a c e f r o m i t s image b o u n d a r y . The a u t h o r s have p r e s e n t e d a new a p p r o a c h t o shape f r o m b o u n d a r y [ 4 ] . I t i n c l u d e s t h r e e p o i n t s : t h e l i n e o f c u r v a t u r e (LOC) r e g u l a r i t y , a n a l g o r i t h m f o r c o n s t r u c t i n g LOC net f r o m b o u n d a r y , and...

This paper concerns the Schrr odinger operator ?+V (x) in R d ; d 3, with periodic potential V. Under the assumption V 2 L d=2 loc (R d), it is shown that the spectrum of ?+V (x) is absolutely continuous. The condition on the potential V is optimal in the context of L p spaces.

Assessing the level of consciousness of noncommunicative brain-damaged patients is difficult, as one has to make inferences based on the patients' behavior. However, behavioral responses of brain-damaged patients are usually limited not only by their cognitive dysfunctions, but also by their frequent motor impairment. For these reasons, it is essential to resort to para-clinical markers of the ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Differences in consciousness during seizures depend on the location of the seizure onset. METHODS The present study evaluates ictal consciousness using the ictal consciousness inventory (ICI) in drug refractory mesial temporal (MTLE), neocortical temporal (NTLE) and extra temporal epilepsy (ETLE). This was a cross sectional cohort study with 45 patients with mesial temp...

Our previously developed quantum-holographic framework of integrative medicine and transpersonal psychology seems to provide theoretically fundamental understanding of the nature of psychosomatic diseases as well as limitations of their prevention and healing methods, by imposing new healing boundary conditions in the energy-state space of electromagnetic (EM) quantum-field-related acupuncture ...