In recent years, a social networking service (SNS) not only thrives in digital content industries but also functions as a platform that focuses on facilitating the building of social interactions among people. Based on the DeLone and McLean model (2003), this study develops a modified model to examine the effect of the three website technology characteristics on user satisfaction, benefits of s...

This chapter examines the concept of peace from a biopsychosocial perspective. It reviews available knowledge concerning gene-environment regulatory interactions and their consequences for neurodevelopment, particularly during sensitive periods early in life. The hypothesis is explored that efforts on the part of parents to protect, nurture, and stimulate their children can lead to physically, ...

The techniques of structural biology currently play an important role in the development of novel therapeutic agents including cancer chemotherapies. X-ray crystallography has proved to be a particularly powerful tool for both the discovery of novel compounds and their subsequent development. In this review of the literature, the steps involved in the determination of a crystal structure will b...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the nature of the inter-relationships among brand equity dimensions in the fast fashion context. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the empirical data collected from 419 fast fashion consumers in the USA, the study investigated the inter-relationships among the various brand equity dimensions by structural equation modeling. Findings – Th...

Developments in MS enable us to apply this technique to non-covalent complexes, defining their stoichiometry, subunit interactions and architectural organization. We illustrate the application of this non-covalent MS approach to uncovering the overall topological arrangements of subunits and interactions within RNA-protein complexes studied in our laboratory over the last 5 years. These studies...

Locating the program element(s) relevant to a particular feature is an important step in efficient maintenance of a software system. The existing feature location techniques analyze each feature independently and perform a one-time analysis after being provided an initial input. As a result, these techniques are sensitive to the quality of the input, and they tend to miss the non-local interact...

The author proposes an alternative estimation technique for latent variable interactions and quadraties. Available techniques for specifying these variables in structural equation models require adding variables or constraint equations that can produce specification tedium and errors or estimation difficulties. The proposed technique avoids these difficulties and may be useful for EQS, LISREL 7...

The genome sequencing projects and knowledge of the entire protein repertoires of many organisms have prompted new procedures and techniques for the large-scale determination of protein structure, function and interactions. Recently, new work has been carried out on the determination of the function and evolutionary relationships of proteins by experimental structural genomics, and the discover...

In this paper we present an Information Retrieval System (IRS) which is able to work with structured document collections. The model is based on the influence diagrams formalism: a generalization of Bayesian Networks that provides a visual representation of a decision problem. These offer an intuitive way to identify and display the essential elements of the domain (the structured document comp...

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