The utilisation of social media in the workplace has attracted much speculation in the business community in relation to its risks and benefits. However, intra-organisational dimensions affecting such ustilisation are yet to be holistically considered. Grounded in the scholarly literature, a survey questionnaire was operationalized and empirical data collected and analysed using PLS. The result...

The Vibrobyte is a wireless haptic interface specialized for co-located musical performance. The hardware is designed around the open source Arduino platform, with haptic control data encapsulated in OSC messages, and OSC/hardware communications handled by Processing. The Vibrobyte was featured at the International Computer Music Conference 2008 (ICMC) in a telematic performance between ensembl...

We describe significant developments towards a real-time implementation of SonArt, the parameter mapping framework first presented in [1] . Enhancements include the incorporation of Open Sound Control (OSC) [2] which facilitates network communications, direct access to a variety of real-time synthesis software platforms, and distributed synthesis. The original goals for opensource, platform ind...

To study the effect of cholesterol and its pathophysiologically important oxidized derivatives (OSC) on the calcium entry channel, the human red blood cell was used as a model system. The calcium ejecting adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) was inhibited by vanadate. The cells were loaded with OSC at concentrations between 1.25 X 10(-5) and 25 X 10(-5) mol/l. 22-Hydroxycholesterol, cholestan-3 bet...

Acquired resistance to cisplatin (CDDP) is an issue in cancer chemotherapy. This resistance has been reported to be correlated with the expression of the Cu influx copper transporter 1 (CTR1) and two copper efflux transporters (ATP7A, ATP7B). We investigated the correlation between the expression of these transporters and the sensitivity to CDDP using three pairs of parent cell lines and resist...

Cancer is currently a major international health problem. The development of resistance to chemotherapy has resulted in the search for herbal drugs. Ginger is a medicinal plant with several clinical applications. Metabolomics is a simultaneous detection of all the metabolites by use of (1)HNMR or mass spectroscopy and interpretation by modeling software. The purpose of this study was to detect ...

Eight calibration transfer methods based on the removal of orthogonal signal were compared for the standardization of whole soybean protein and oil models. Dynamic orthogonal projection (DOP), transfer by orthogonal projection (TOP), error removal by orthogonal subtraction (EROS), orthogonal signal correction (OSC), and orthogonal projections to latent structures (O-PLS) as well as the modifica...

Commercialization of organic solar cell (OSC) has faltered due to their low power conversion efficiency (PCE) compared to inorganic solar cell. Low electrical conductivity, low charge mobility, and short-range light absorption of most organic materials limit the PCE of OSCs. Carbon nanomaterials, especially carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphenes, are of great interest for use in OSC applications...

This paper provides a sintetic review of the literature concernig the effects of imprisonment on crime rates and on recidivism. We hghlighht both the effects depending on general and specific deterrence as well as open research questions. Readers wishing to cite this document are asked to use the following form of words: Galbiati Roberto, Drago Francesco (2012). “Deterrent effects of imprisonme...

Supervisory Controllers are Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDSs) forming the discrete core of a Hybrid Control System. We address the problem of automatic synthesis of Optimal Finite State Supervisory Controllers (OSCs). We show that Boolean First Order Logic (BFOL) and Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are an eeective meth-odological and practical framework for Optimal Finite State Supervisory...