Information technology (IT) innovation research examines the organizational and technological factors that determine IT adoption and diffusion, including firm size and scope, technological competency and expected benefits. We extend the literature by focusing on information requirements as a driver of IT innovation adoption and diffusion. Our framework of IT innovation diffusion incorporates th...

Radiotracers and nucleonic gauges are increasingly being applied by the mining, metallurgy and mineral processing industries for the exploration and efficient extraction of natural resources. Such industries exist in most countries and are often major contributors to national economies. Radiotracers are excellent tools for deriving data in a simple manner from a variety of complex and closed fl...

dumbells, barbells, and other early resistance apparati in unexpected Halteres varied greatly in appearance and composition during the era modern historians refer to as Ancient Greece. Accordplaces. In some instances, the printed references were surprising because of the early date at which they were published. In other ing to John Blundell’s The Muscles and Their Story, published in 1864, the ...

Complementary Processing, (CP), is a scheduling methodology to increase software execution speed Experiments were performed to test CP with command and control software, specifically, to measure the effect of CP on the speed of processing Navy track-message data. A 37.5-fold increase was observed in this preliminary test. Recommendations for future tests are discussed.

In many businesses, including hydrocarbon industries, reducing cost is of high priority. Although hydrocarbon industries appear able to afford the expensive computing infrastructure and software packages used to process seismic data in the search for hydrocarbon traps, it is always imperative to find ways to minimize cost. Seismic processing costs can be significantly reduced by using inexpensi...

Obliterative bronchiolitis, a rare, irreversible form of fixed obstructive lung disease, has been identified in workers exposed to flavoring chemicals while working in the microwave-popcorn and flavoring-manufacturing industries; the occupational risk to workers outside these industries is largely unknown. This report describes two cases of obliterative bronchiolitis identified in workers emplo...

Neural models of perception clarify how visual illusions arise from adaptive neural processes. Illusions also provide important insights into how adaptive neural processes work. This article focuses on two illusions that illustrate a fundamental property of global brain organization; namely, that advanced brains are organized into parallel cortical processing streams with computationally comple...

This study aims to identify the relationships between critical factors and successful Enterprise Resource Planning implementation in agricultural processing companies of Central Macedonia’s (Greece) region. Therefore, are taken into account collectively, as aspects ERP its life cycle. Based on that, two versions particular information system’s management were presented, aiming success Greek fie...

The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. The focus of this paper is on (downstream) product development and commercialization on the basis of perfectly complementary patents. We consider development technologies that entail spill...