At Honeywell Technology Center, we are applying planning technology to help humans use complex automated systems. Some example systems are suites of NASA satellite image-processing programs for EOSDIS, schedulers for batch manufacturing processes and automated support for medical treatment protocols. The problem is one of providing what Pattie Maes [8] calls "indirect interaction:" allowing use...

This study is on the role of chief executive officers (CEOs) of large nondotcom companies undergoing major information technology (IT) induced organizational changes. Interviews were conducted with Australian CEOs to determine their perception of their role in IT induced organizational change. Two questions that this study answers are: How did CEOs provide leadership when dealing with issues be...

As a follow up to the 2007 drought and water scarcity in Georgia and especially in North Georgia, there is a greater need of creating new water reservoirs. The main goal of this study is to use geospatial technology, engineering and environmental knowhow to find suitable locations in North GA for building a reservoir to serve primarily for drinking water supply and irrigation. Another objective...

The present study investigated dispositional variables that underlie informal volunteering, service that occurs outside of any organizational structure. Dispositional variables previously related to formal volunteering, individualism/collectivism and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, were examined along with perceived locus of control. Time spent in informal service was related to collectivism, i...

Sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L. CV. Keystone Resistant Giant #3) seeds were imbibed (primed) in salt solutions to determine a) what concentrations would inhibit radicle emergence and b) the influence this delay in radicle emergence would have on subsequent germination. Seeds were primed for 17 days at 23C in petri dishes with KNO3, KCl, NaCl, K2SO4, Na2SO4, 1 NaCl: 1 CaCl2 (mol/mol), Ca(NO3)2,...

To determine the optimal conditions for mutagenesis of Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) Ser. and Hydrangea paniculata Siebold, cold-treated and untreated seed from representative cultivars were exposed to 0.5%, 2.5%, and 5.0% ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS). Most untreated H. macrophylla seed exposed to 2.5% and 5.0% EMS had substantially lower germination percentages. H. paniculata seed germinatio...

Open AccessCCS ChemistryRESEARCH ARTICLE1 May 2021Stabilizing the Extrinsic Porosity in Metal–Organic Cages-Based Supramolecular Framework by In Situ Catalytic Polymerization Guoliang Liu†, Mi Zhou†, Kongzhao Su, Ravichandar Babarao, Daqiang Yuan and Maochun Hong Liu† State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute Research on Structure Matter, Chinese Academy Sciences, Fuzhou 35...

Tropical forests have been rapidly deforested and degradation worldwide has outpaced biodiversity field sampling. No study to date assessed the effects of insular habitats induced by hydroelectric dams on Amazonian understory plants. Fern community responses anthropogenic tropical forest islands can be revealed at a faster pace using simple cheap, yet informative, protocols that could applied n...

Anthropologists have spilt much ink deconstructing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment. Religion, possibly most misleading such concept, has proved highly resistant to acid of cross-cultural comparison. Debates about nature religion go back sociocultural anthropology's beginnings as a discipline and beyond. Proposed definitions been numerous, but none come close universal acceptance, main...

This paper discusses the role of interpretation in innovative design and proposes an approach to providing computer support for interpretation in design. According to situated cognition theory, most of a designer’s knowledge is normally tacit. Situated interpretation is the process of explicating something that is tacitly understood, within its larger context. The centrality of interpretation t...