Teachers in the US have been increasingly adopting mobile devices for teaching, but little research has examined how pre-service teachers perceive mobile device integration in classrooms. To address this issue, the study developed a research model that explained factors affecting pre-service teachers’ intention to use mobile devices and the relationship among the factors. A total of 386 pre-ser...

Self-service technologies (SSTs) are defined as technological interfaces that enable customers to produce a service without direct employee involvement. Among various SSTs, self-checkouts are being tested by grocery stores across the world. However, while most studies focus on SST adoption, there is limited research on its impact on service quality, customer satisfaction, and retention. Our stu...

New open service architectures are now emerging to ease service construction, management, testing, deployment, and operation, and to hide from the service designer the heterogeneity of the underlying technologies and the complexities introduced by distribution. These architectures should provide all the functionalities for call and connection management, and support management functional areas....

Developing service-based interactive applications is time consuming and nontrivial. Annotating web services with additional information about the user interface and behavior of the service promises to ease and accelerate the development process. In this paper we present a model-driven development approach that utilizes the advantages of annotated web services during the service composition. It ...

A functional polytypic program is one that is parameterised by datatype. Since poly-typic functions are deened by induction on types rather than by induction on values they typically operate on a higher level of abstraction than their monotypic counterparts. However, polytypic programming is not necessarily more complicated than conventional programming. We show that a polytypic function is uni...

customers extend robust trust to a business when they believe the business puts their interests first. good experience of banking services and recommendations of other customers can increase trust. loyalty and word of mouth (wom) is accepted as key factors successes of marketing. this paper seeks to discover the affecting factors on positive word of mouth and loyalty based on trust enhancement ...

multi-path is favorite alternative for sensor networks, as it provides an easy mechanism to distributetraffic, as well as considerate fault tolerance. in this paper, a new clustering based multi path routingprotocol namely ecrr (energy efficient cluster based routing algorithm for improving reliability) isproposed, which is a new routing algorithm and guarantees the achievement to required qos ...

over the past decade, clinical governance approach with aims to improve the quality of health services has been proposed in iran. considering the obvious problems especially patients' length of stay (los) in the emergency departments (eds); the present study has been carried out with the purpose of investigating the effect of clinical governess approach on patients' los in the one of the larges...

This paper summarizes a prototyping effort pertaining to the design and development of a raster image re-projection web service. The goal of the effort is to identify the complexities of interoperable service design and the feasibility of service chaining in a GIS Web Services architecture. A description of a preliminary web interface and the implementation options considered for the prototype ...