Theoretical and empirical research on technology acceptance, while acknowledging the importance of individual beliefs about the compatibility of a technology, has produced equivocal results. This study focuses on further theoretical and empirical development of this important belief in technology acceptance. Specifically, unlike prior research which has examined only one aspect of compatibility...

Introduction Empathy is believed to play an important role in fostering prosocial behavior and social competence. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of empathy teaching on aggression and compatibility in female students of elementary sixth grade in yazd, center of Iran. Materials and Methods The samples were 62 girl students of grade 6 in elementary schools that were selected ...

Web services are the main pillar of the Service Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm which enables application integration within and across business organizations. One of the most important features of Web services is the idea of choreography which allows to capture collaborative processes involving multiple services. In this context, compatibility analysis of choreography is a central point to i...

The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in network industries to rebuild their installed base to maintain an advantage over potential entrants. We study if backward compatibility can help moderate this process of rebuilding an installed base. Using a structural model of the US market for handheld game consoles, we show that backward compatibility lets incumbents transfer ...

Unlike stimulus-response compatibility, which has been explored for aging effects, the motor behavior issue of response-response (R-R) compatibility has not been addressed in the gerontological literature. R-R compatibility refers to the ease with which two responses can be prepared together either simultaneously or as choice alternatives. In the present study, young, middleaged, and elderly ad...

dear editor morning report is an educational process in which participants try to solve a diagnostic problem by discussing the patients (1). in spite of this fact that morning report is one of the most practical, clinical, and educational methods in the world, there is no special paradigm for it (2). thus, it is necessary to assess it for students’ educational planning. because there was no ref...

Individual organisations as well as industry consortia are currently defining application and domain-specific languages using the eXtended Markup Language (XML) standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This trend introduces new challenges for version and configuration management. We show that configuration management for XML languages is considerably more complicated for an XML Schema o...

To an increasing extend business processes run across the borders of individual enterprises. Thus, there is a need to map each local subprocess into a self-contained component; a distributed business process arises from composition of such component via standardized communication protocols. The Web service approach provides a standardized, platform independent and widely accepted concept of com...