Understanding the successful adoption of information technology is largely based upon understanding the linkages among quality, satisfaction, and usage. Although the satisfaction and usage constructs have been well studied in the information systems literature, there has been only limited attention to information and system quality over the past decade. To address this shortcoming, we developed...

OBJECTIVES This paper outlines the potential strategies to identify the poor, and assesses their feasibility, efficiency and equity. Analyses are illustrated for the case of premium exemptions under National Health Insurance (NHI) in Ghana. METHODS A literature search in Medline search was performed to identify strategies to identify the poor. Models were developed including information on de...

The article proposes a novel two-stage network traffic anomaly detection method for the railway transportation critical infrastructure monitored using wireless sensor networks (WSN). The first step of the proposed solution is to find and eliminate any outlying observations in the analyzed parameters of the WSN traffic using a simple and fast one-dimensional quartile criterion. In the second ste...

Moral subjectivism is commonly associated with out-of-favour theories like, e.g., Alfred Ayer’s emotivism or John Mackie’s error theory. This paper approaches the field against background of attitudinal character morality and religion. The possibility a brand moral established which common to in name only but seems have considerable merits. perspective from action theory philosophy mind suggest...

The paper introduces order of integration test (OIT) which serves as a simple alternative to unit root built generally using auxiliary autoregressive AAR(3) model. parametric boundary conditions necessary and sufficient for testing the null hypothesis that non-stationary variable under is integrated zero I(0) were estimated via generalized least squares (GLS). decision on evaluated t-statistic....

The consumption of coal resources has caused an increase in CO2 emissions. A scientific concept that can realize sequestration, the harmless treatment solid wastes, and extraction under buildings, railways, water bodies (BRW) is proposed. First, a novel mineralized filling body (CMFB) developed by employing gas, fly ash, silicate additives, cement. It then injected into mined-out mining roadway...

Abstract Appraisal of groundwater fitness to drinking, agricultural, and domestic purposes was attempted within the Thiruvallur district South India since is significant sources for above utilities. Groundwater samples collected from a sum 110 locations have be analyzed major concentrations which higher values total dissolved solids (TDS), chloride (Cl − ), sodium (Na + ) ions were noted during...

In recent years it has become more and more difficult to distinguish between metaethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism. (Dreier 2004; van Roojen 2004) The distinction most often used to separate the two camps, until recently at least, was their position on the meaningfulness of moral statements and the applicability of truth-predicates to those statements. Cognitivists are said to hold that m...

Current research in robotics is driven by the goal to achieve a high user acceptance of service robots for private households. This implies that robots have to increase their social aptness in order to become a robot companion that is able to interact in a natural way and to carry out tasks for the user. In this paper we present the Bielefeld Robot Companion (BIRON) as an example for the develo...

Recombinant adenoviruses, poxviruses, and plasmid DNA vaccines encoding different hepatitis B virus (HBV)/murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) protein chimeras were used to immunize mice. Processing of the chimeras resulted in presentation of a protective Ld/CD8+ T-cell epitope of the immediate early 1 protein pp89 (IE1 pp89) of MCMV to the immune system. Different levels of immunogenicity were observ...