Forecasting the impacts of changes in water quality on broadcast spawning aquatic organisms is a key aspect of environmental monitoring. Rapid assays of reproductive potential are central to this monitoring, and there is a need to develop a variety of methods to identify responses. Here, we report a proof-of-concept study that assesses whether quantification of "Sperm Accumulated Against Surfac...

In the service landscape, the issues of service selection, negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLA), and SLA-compliance monitoring have typically been used in separate and disparate ways, which affect the quality of the services that consumers obtain from their providers. In this work, we propose a broker-based framework to deal with these concerns in an integrated mannerfor Software as a ...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is emerging as a viable outsourcing option for clients interested in paying for the right to access a standardized set of business software functions through the network. SaaS model largely replaced the Application Service Providers (ASPs) model, by creating an architecture that provides no mechanisms for customizing the software on the vendor side; all customizatio...

Título: Validación de la adaptación española del School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised mediante el modelo de Rasch multidimensional. Resumen: El School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised (SAAS-R) fue desarrollado por McCoach y Siegle (2003b) y validado en España por Miñano, Castejón, y Gilar (2014) a través del Modelo Clásico de Test. El objetivo del presente estudio es validar el SAAS-R a ...

Software as a Service has become a dominant IT news topic over the last few years. Especially in these current recession times, adopting SaaS solutions is increasingly becoming the more favourable alternative for customers rather than investing on brand new on-premise software or outsourcing. This fact has inevitably stimulated the birth of numerous SaaS vendors. Unfortunately, many small-to-me...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a viable option for some companies bearing their business processes. There is a considerable adoption rate, with companies already using more than two services for over two years. However, while some companies have plans to put more business processes supported by these services in the near future, others do not know if they will. They have several concerns regar...

For the rapid development of internet technologies, using internet-accessed devices for online reading has become a must part of everyone’s day life. Among all attractive readings, e-Book is receiving more attentions in recent years for benefiting on-line readers; two typical e-Book services can be found from Amazon and Google eBook stores. However, some desirable features for more satisfying r...

The emergence of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has facilitated agile technology implementation that focuses on iterative adaptations via learning by doing rather than the realization a predesigned plan. This study conceptualizes such an approach and explicates its operationalization four-year qualitative case business-to-business (B2B) start-up firm’s HubSpot marketing automation (MA) SaaS. show...

In the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, a service provider owns and operates an application that is accessed by many businesses over the Internet. A key benefit of this model is that, by careful engineering, it is possible to leverage economy of scale to reduce total cost of ownership relative to on-premises solutions. This tutorial will describe basic architectures and best practices for im...

Since 2009, the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA), with support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), has provided training and technical assistance (TTA) in strategic planning to State Criminal Justice Administering Agencies (SAAs) in 20 states, 2 territories, and the District of Columbia. TTA services have been tailored to the needs, planning scopes, and timelines establishe...