Alcohol consumption levels in Denmark are high with the risk of increased morbidity and mortality in the population. It is suggested that people's views of "normal" use of alcohol must be the platform for formulating effective alcohol education and prevention strategies. However, little is known about the cultural norms for alcohol use. The aim of this article is to examine the perceptions of c...

Electronic word-of-mouth systems (EWOMS) facilitate electronic commerce tremendously. Although adequate consumption information supply is critical for these systems and to some extent for electronic commerce to succeed, there is a lack of investigations on information provision as current studies related to EWOMS mainly concentrate on the consequences of the deployment of the systems. We do not...

The user acceptance of prepayment metering systems, an innovative Information Technology based application, is examined with the help of a structural equation model in the two different cultures of India and the United States. The intention to use prepayment metering systems is measured along three dimensions: performance expectancy, effort expectance, and social influence. The same measures of...

Umbilical hernia is a common benign condition which resolves spontaneously during the first five years of life. However, in certain cases there are some characteristics which may be indicative of a different prognostic approach, as they increase the possibility of complications. The two cases of umbilical hernia that we describe here were treated operatively and revealed the presence of strangu...

This work introduces decentralized query processing techniques based on MIDAS, a novel distributed multidimensional index. In particular, MIDAS implements a distributed k-d tree, where leaves correspond to peers, and internal nodes dictate message routing. MIDAS requires that peers maintain little network information, and features mechanisms that support fault tolerance and load balancing. The ...

The combination of jute fibres and polyamide 11 (PA11) to produce full biocomposites is expectance scientists due many benefits both these materials such as high mechanical performances environmentally friendly behaviors. Unfortunately, there scarce published research on bicomposites uptil now. In order improve the interfacial interaction adhesion between PA11 resin matrix, an important key in ...

A contribution is made in the area of proactive scheduling with the aim to properly define the scheduling problem explicitly incorporating the effects of short-term uncertainties. The idea is to identify a robust initial schedule with the flexibility to react to unexpected events with minimum effects. The problem is modelled using a stochastic optimization approach where not only a set of antic...

Anderson-Fabry disease is a potentially life-threatening hereditary lysosomal storage disorder taking origin in over 1,000 known pathogenic mutations in the alpha-galactosidase A encoding gene. Over the past 15 years, intravenous replacement therapy of the deficient alpha agalsidase A enzyme has been well-established retarding the progression of a multisystemic disease and organ involvement. De...

The current study was conducted with the aim of identifying effective factors in students’ utilise e-books by combining Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory and Technology Acceptance Model. is a descriptive-analytical using confirmatory factor analysis. population included students Tabriz University Medical Sciences. A randomised sampling method used from available population, including 140 partic...