purpose: to evaluate the effect of early aqueous suppressants initiation on ahmed glaucoma valve success rate. methods: in this randomized clinical trial, a total of 94 eyes of 94 patients with refractory glaucoma were enrolled. the eyes were randomly selected into 2 groups. in group 1 (n=47), patients received early topical combination of timolol-dorzolamide twice daily after ahmed glaucoma va...

Online communities have become quite popular, and both practitioners and researchers have focused on the determinants of and the evaluation of online community success. The success of online community is not only embodied in the usage but also on the members’ intention to stick with the community over time. Based on the updated DeLone and McLean’s IS Success Model, and incorporating the theory ...

IT use is a primary concept that should be clarified carefully since it is a major concept in several existing IS theoretical models such as the Technology Acceptance Model, Task-Technology Fit, and IS Success model. Unfortunately, most studies define this concept too simply. This can constrain our understandings of IT impacts. Therefore, it is necessary to conceptualize IT use and explore its ...

Broadly, telemedicine refers to the use of information and telecommunication technologies to distribute information and/or expertise necessary for healthcare service provision, collaboration and/or delivery among geographically separated participants, including physicians and patients. Evaluation of telemedicine systems success or effectiveness is a fundamental challenge to healthcare organizat...

This study predicts end-user satisfaction on Facebook through two constructs: perceived ease-of-use and perceived usefulness. Usefulness was operationalized to reflect the perception that the site is helpful for friendship maintenance and social surveillance. The results show that Facebook users perceive the site to be both easy-to-use and useful. Perceived ease-of-use and perceived usefulness ...

The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate the validity of Information systems (IS) success models such as DeLone and McLean’s (1992), Seddon’s (1997), and DeLone and McLean’s (2003) IS success models for an e-government application called the Online Public Grievance Redressal System (OPGRS) in context of India. The paper also provides an integrated model of IS success based on the co...

Organizational Memory (OM) can be defined as the way an organization applies past knowledge to present activities. This mini-track focuses on how information technology can assist organizations in capturing, structuring, retaining, and retrieving OM. It represents a primary forum for researchers in this domain to exchange ideas and present research results. We are also striving to make it a spr...