Most businesses these days use the web services technology as a medium to allow interaction between a service provider and a service requestor. However, both the service provider and the requestor would be unable to achieve their business goals when there are miscommunications between their processes. This research focuses on the process incompatibility between the web services and the way to a...

The lack of effective IT governance is widely recognized as a key inhibitor to successful global IT outsourcing relationships. In this study we present the development and application of a governance framework to improve outsourcing relationships. The approach used to developing an IT governance framework includes a meta model and a customization process to fit the framework to the target organ...

A 10–year Content Analysis to Assess Research Theme Areas in Agricultural Education: Gap Analysis of Future Research Priorities in the Discipline. (December 2007) Leslie Dawn Jenkins Edgar, B.S., Utah State University; M.S., Utah State University Co–Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Tracy A. Rutherford Dr. Gary E. Briers The field of agricultural education relies on multiple research journals t...

P. Singh,1* P.K. Aggarwal,2** V.S. Bhatia,3*** M.V.R. Murty,1**** M. Pala,4 T. Oweis,4***** B. Benli,4 K.P.C. Rao5****** and S.P. Wani1******* 1International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India; 2Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi 110 012, India; 3National Research Centre for Soybean (NRCS), Khandwa Road, ...

Mutually inhibitory pacemaker neurons with duty cycle close to 50% operate as a half-center oscillator (anti-phase coordination, i.e., 180 degrees out of phase), even in the presence of weak to modest gap junctional coupling. For electrical coupling strength above a critical value synchronization occurs. But, as shown here with modeling studies, the effects of electrical coupling depend critica...

This paper explores the assimilation gap, the gap between the acquisition of a technology and its deployment, in higher education teaching. The relevant literature covers three themes: technology diffusion, the technology acceptance model and task-technology fit. To explore the significance of these models to a teaching environment case study research was undertaken within a university college ...

The paper presents a new approach to developing a roadmap for technologyenhanced professional training. The new methodology views roadmapping as a knowledge creation process and involves the key phases of foresight analysis (identification of prevalent visions) and gap analysis. A conceptual model of the roadmapping process as a knowledge creation exercise is introduced and discussed.

INTRODUCTION Those installations concerned with providing an improved array of IT products and services to their customers should seriously consider a “gap analysis” approach to information technology (IT) management. This process offers a straightforward, non-complex process to improve several areas of the IT function. Gap analysis can be completed quickly and inexpensively, in contrast to oth...

In this contribution, a nearly comprehensive survey among creators and performers in media, arts and entertainment in the Netherlands is presented. It concerns the implications of digital reproduction and distribution for the creative professions as perceived by those working in it. Based on regressions and cluster analysis of the survey data, an analysis is provided of income developments and ...