The case study reported in this paper focuses on the question: what are the critical factors that influence IT professionals’ intention to adopt the Service Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm? This work reports a case study examining the e-Government initiative in a middle-sized European city. It uses an initial SOC adoption model developed through a proceeding interview-based exploratory study...

BACKGROUND It has been shown that large interdisciplinary teams working across geography are more likely to be impactful. We asked whether the physical proximity of collaborators remained a strong predictor of the scientific impact of their research as measured by citations of the resulting publications. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Articles published by Harvard investigators from 1993 to 2...

This paper documents the results of in situ analysis of 306 lava paving stones and 74 possible source rocks using pXRF. Data were collected from sites both in the city of Rome—on major roads beyond the city (including the Viae Flaminia, Cassia, Clodia, Praenestina and Appia)—and in the city of Ostia. Comparison of the pXRF data with lava compositional data from the geological literature allows ...

In the wake of the devastating Argentine economic crisis of 2001, Buenos Aires has undergone one of the largest real estate booms in the city’s history—a boom that is fundamentally reconfiguring the urban landscape. In the midst of a whirlwind of urban development, several middle-class neighborhood activist groups have emerged to contest the effects of the boom on the identity of their neighbor...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an 8-week Probody Massage Program on body alignment and plantar pressure balance in middle-aged men with musculoskeletal diseases. Method: The subject of this study were 20 middle-aged men with musculoskeletal diseases in B Metropolitan city and they participated Probody Massage Program for 8 weeks twice a week. Physical char...

Smart City solutions are these days applied not only in big, but also small and medium sized cities a wide variety of countries worldwide. Also municiplaties the Slovak Republic using to different extent smart city improve life their people. The goal this paper, based on premises, that can become City, is present analyse good examples Republic. focus will be Kezmarok, which considered as by imp...

The object of this study is to assess informative possibilities of some technical indicators of the Test of Photos of Professions (BBT--Berufsbilder test), a projective method to clarify professional inclination, proposed by Martin Achtnich. This psychological evaluation technique is composed of 96 photos of professionals, performing various types of activities. The test subject classifies the ...

Key British scientists were invited to a 'power' breakfast last month to discuss with no less than five ministers their views on how science policy can be developed. And in the chancellor's later annual budget statement, the government underlined its wish to see investment in science as a key to future prosperity. But future money will not all be coming from the government: there are growing ef...