The existing works point out that smaller organisations have been shown to have different technology adoption patterns than large ones. However, it is unclear whether Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and large organisations take decisions for the adoption of integration technologies by focusing on different factors. Moreover, the literature also shows that there is an absence of theoret...

This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between officeholder and the electorate, where everyone is initially uninformed about the officeholder’s ability. If office-holder effort and ability interact in the determination of performance in office, then an office-holder has an incentive to learn i.e. raise effort so that performance becomes a more accurate signal of her abil...

Coronal loops are the basic elements of the solar corona and are responsible for the totality of the coronal X-ray emission. Loop physics is therefore important to understand the structure, heating, dynamics and evolution of the corona. A well-established and useful approach to study loop physics has been the detailed hydrodynamic modeling of the connned plasma, coupled to the synthesis of obse...

Observations of the large two-ribbon flare on 7 November 2004 made using SOHO and TRACE data are interpreted in terms of a three-dimensional magnetic field model. Photospheric flux evolution indicates that −1.4 × 10 Mx of magnetic helicity was injected into the active region during the 40-hour build-up prior to the flare. The magnetic model places a lower bound of 8×10 ergs on the energy stored...

Good afternoon, Senator Brownback and Senator Feinstein. I am Julia Rowland, Ph. D., Director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship (OCS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). I am pleased to appear before you today to describe the history of the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship and to share with you the breadth of activities currently supported by the NCI addressing t...

Energy efficiency in office buildings has been the center of attention for many researches. This special attention is due to highly energy consumption in this building type. Refinement of facade and building’s envelop is a good approach to reduce buildings energy requirements. Double skin facade concepts are commonly used to achieve that object. Although the concept is not new, there is a growi...

Fluid office documents, as semi-structured data often represented by Extensible Markup Language (XML) are important parts of Big Data. These office documents have different formats, and their matching Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) depend on developing platform and versions, which causes difficulty in custom development and information retrieval from them. To solve this problem, we h...

We present a simple theory of the quality (competence and honesty) of elected officials. Our theory offers three main insights. Low-quality citizens have a ‘comparative advantage’ in pursuing elective office, because their market wages are lower than those of high-quality citizens (competence), and/or because they reap higher returns from holding office (honesty). Hence, voters may find themsel...

BACKGROUND Spatial configurations of office environments assessed by Space Syntax methodologies are related to employee movement patterns. These methods require analysis of floors plans which are not readily available in large population-based studies or otherwise unavailable. Therefore a self-report instrument to assess spatial configurations of office environments using four scales was develo...