Social media has become an important component of corporate information technology for some organizations. The extant literature is replete with frameworks and methodologies for successful social media strategic planning. However, there is a gap in the literature in terms of making sense of the challenges to adoption and to this end the paper provides a framework for social media non-adoption. ...

Adoption of drip irrigation in Kerala State of India is very low and potential exists toincrease its adoption in the State. A field survey was conducted in two districts to determine themajor factors influencing farmers’ adoption of drip irrigation and to draw conclusions that willhelp in developing policy and institutional interventions to encourage the adoption. The resultsindicated that adop...

New nondiagonal G2 inhomogeneous cosmological solutions are presented in a wide range of scalar-tensor theories with a stiff perfect fluid as a matter source. The solutions have no big-bang singularity or any other curvature singularities. The dilaton field and the fluid energy density are everywhere regular, too. The geodesic completeness of the solutions is investigated. 04.50.+h, 04.20.Jb, 9...

This article places the controversy over transracial adoption (TRA) in its historical context and analyzes recent developments in the law governing TRA policy. Because unfounded "authority" from the field of mental health infuses current debate, the authors alert psychiatrists to two powerful forces that improperly influence today's legal arena: community preference for same-race families and b...

We study the cosmology of the Randall-Sundrum brane-world where the Einstein-Hilbert action is modified by curvature correction terms: a four-dimensional scalar curvature from induced gravity on the brane, and a five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet curvature term. The combined effect of these curvature corrections to the action removes the infinite-density big bang singularity, although the curvature ...

this study determined the value relevance of assets and liabilities after the adoption of ifrs among listed nigerian firms. ohlson model (1995) model of stock price regressions tested the relationship between assets and liabilities with the stock price, which has been widely adopted by accounting researchers. a sample of 126 firms listed in nigeria stock market is used for the study. data is co...

introduction: plagiarism damages the scientific products. its effects on sciences producer, such as manufacturers, scientists, authors and the others is that they will not desire to write anymore. furthermore, research result is so important in medical sciences, because they are dealing with human life. therefore, this study aimed to identify the methods and types of crime in plagiarism. method...

This paper reports from an empirical study that focuses on cloud computing (CC) adoption in various contexts. The findings build upon 25 interviews conducted in both Norwegian and Egyptian organizations. We utilized a neo-institutional lens as a guide to understand the internal and external factors, and their various influences on shaping CC adoption strategies. We identified five external inst...