This study investigates technology adoption behavior of Saudi Arabian knowledge workers using desktop computers within the context of TAM2, and the unique effects of Saudi culture on IT adoption within the developing, non-Western, country. Following the guidelines of the etic-emic research tradition, which encourages cross-cultural theory and framework testing, the study findings reveal that th...

Investigated here are factors that control the intensities and shapes of energetic ion spectra that make up the ring current populations of the strongly magnetized planets of the solar system, specifically those of Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Following a previous and similar comparative investigation of radiation belt electrons, we here turn our attention to ions. Specifically,...

Using five spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit, plasmaspheric drainage plumes are located in the dayside magnetosphere and the measured pitch angle anisotropies of radiation belt electrons are compared duskward and dawnward of the plumes. Two hundred twenty-six plume crossings are analyzed. It is found that the radiation belt anisotropy is systematically greater dawnward of plumes (before the el...

This paper discusses the healing practices of samayācāra Śrīvidyā, a Hindu Tantric tradition. study is based on field research conducted in Śrī Lalitāmbikā temple Coimbatore, India. The tradition not only advocates inner ritualism, but also focuses derived from sources. By using both emic and etic approaches, this attempts to show how rituals Śrīvidyā meditative became incorporated into system ...

Em 5 de novembro 2015, os subdistritos Mariana-MG, Bento Rodrigues e Paracatu Baixo, foram completamente destruídos pelo rompimento da barragem Fundão. O desastre ambiental causou mortes humanos, flora, fauna deixou o município sem a sua principal receita. Sem mineração governo local população passaram vivenciar uma crise econômica social. Para reparar compensar danos dos atingidos diretos indi...

Dear Editor, Retinal artery occlusion (RAO) is characterized by attenuated arterioles and ischemic retinal opacity, which suggest retinal infarction. Branch RAO (BRAO) has a more favorable prognosis than central RAO (CRAO). CRAO and BRAO can be differentiated based on the isch-emic retinal opacity area, location of the attenuated vessels , and a cherry-red spot [1]. However, we encountered a ca...

with cyclophosphamide. For AKI due to probable cast nephropathy, HCO HD with Fresenius Ultraflux ® EMiC ® 2 dialyser, 8 h/ session, 5 days/week was commenced. After 2 weeks of treatments, although κ-FLC Dear Editor, Cast nephropathy is the commonest cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) [1] . There has been a recent interest in extended hemodialysis (HD) with...

The first aim of this study is to investigate whether instruments developed with an emic approach in Turkey produce the same trait-value links obtained with studies using near universal instruments, and if emic traits and value concepts are composed under agency and communal conceptions. So, the first aim of this study is to inspect the conceptual similarities in the links between traits and va...