In this paper, we review the literature on information technology (IT) and culture. The construct of ‘‘culture’’ has alternately been defined and studied by international scholars as national culture, and by organizational scholars as organizational or corporate culture. We argue that, despite the considerable amount of research activity in these areas, the two research traditions have existed ...

Dialogue utterances are rarely sentences and are often fragmentary. This paper discusses some of the implicit assumptions made by shallow and deep processing approaches, and advocates a new approach which keeps the robustness of shallow or keyword-based approaches, whilst retaining the generality and formal nature of a full semantics.

abstract in this study the possibility of utilizing date syrup as a sugar replacer in soft ice-cream was investigated. for this purpose control sample was formulated based on iranian ice- cream standard. data syrup which produced from third grade kabkab dates, replaced sucrose in four levels (25, 50, 75 and 100%). physical properties including overrun, viscosity and freezing point (drawing temp...

entrepreneurial efforts that resulted from entrepreneurial intention depend on the attachment with entrepreneurial practices physically and informatively. the physical attachment through the priority of male genders, getting entrepreneurs as family member or as admired persons and the informative attachment through getting information of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship by courses and program...

purpose to translate long form, interview-administered international physical activity questionnaire (ipaq) from english to persian and evaluate its validity, reliability and reproducibility. methods a forward-backward translation procedure was followed to develop the persian version of the ipaq. a total of 218 respondents (53.7% women, aged 22–76 yr) completed the persian version in tehran, ir...

We study the problem of resolving a perhaps misspelled address of a location into geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude. Our data structure solves this problem within a few milliseconds even for misspelled and fragmentary queries. Compared to major geographic search engines such as Google or Bing we achieve results of significantly better quality.

A simple discriminant function using midshaft femoral circumference for the determination of sex has been tested with 114 skeletons from the Libben Site, Ontario County, Ohio. The results have been shown to be 85% consistent with other, accepted means of determining sex. Femur circumference an be an aid to the sexual identification of poorly preserved and fragmentary skeletal remains.

natural rubber/fiber composites were prepared in a laboratory mixer using new and waste short nylon fiber by a one-step mixing process. fiber loading and bonding agent effects on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the composites were studied. the cure characteristics of composites were investigated by using rheometer. cure and scorching times of the composites decreased while maxim...