The resource-based view (RBV) ascribes superior firm performance to firm resources and capabilities. In recent years, much debate about the value of e-business has been raised because of the costly investments required. Although studies have found positive relationships between e-business and firm performance, there is a need to further investigate into these topics. Since innovation has become...

e-learning as an educational approach has been adopted by diverse educational and academic centers worldwide as it facilitates learning in facing the challenges of the new era in education. considering the significance of virtual education and its growing practice, it is of vital importance to examine its components for promoting and maintaining success. this analytical cross-sectional study wa...

Internet Piracy and Book Sales: A Field Experiment Michal Krawczyk Widespread Internet piracy continues to fuel the debate about the appropriate level of copyright enforcement. In this project we used experimental methods to study the effect which underlies calls for stringent anti-piracy measures, namely that infringement has detrimental impact on legal sales. Focusing on the book industry, we...

Runtime profiling of Web-based applications and services is an effective method to aid in the provisioning of required resources, for monitoring server-level objectives, and for detecting implementation defects. Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain accurate profile data on live client workloads due to the high overhead of instrumentation. This paper describes a cloud-based profiling service...

We study an energy-scale dependence of the lepton-flavor-mixing matrix in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with the effective dimension-five operators which give the masses of neutrinos. We analyze the renormalization group equations of κijs which are coefficients of these effective operators under the approximation to neglect the corrections of O(κ2). As a consequence, we find that al...

Post-traumatic median nerve sensitive deficits are frequent. They are a source of permanent handicap that dramatically decreases the level of autonomy and the quality of life of persons suffering from these deficits. Surgical repair is possible, but the results are not always functionally useful. Therefore, prosthetic approaches do represent an alternative solution that needs to be explored. Al...

in the recent decade, given the importance of customer in online environment, creating loyalty has been proposed as an essential challenge for electronic stores. the present study focuses on the role of trust in order to facilitate the process of making e-customers loyal. to this end, a model was proposed that especially focuses on individual factors ( perceived usefulness, perceived ease of us...

Principals of development of e-government formation and management mechanisms are researched. Application of web-technologies and social networks in administration of e-government is reviewed. Approaches related to transformation of government administration are analyzed and feedback mechanisms are proposed for effective management of e-government.