Since their inception, social networking sites (SNSs) have experienced exponential growth. While substantial research has been dedicated to users’ initial adoption of SNSs, the fall of MySpace reminds us that the long-term success of SNSs depends on users’ post adoption staying power. Inspired by this, this work-in-progress investigates users’ “stickiness” with a specific SNS. Based on Li et al...

This paper reports on an empirical investigation of the relationship between print and hypertext reading skills. Subjects in the study were university students at a public Midwestern university. A repeated-measures, counter-balanced design was employed. Subjects were categorized as highand low-ability readers based on a standardized measure of reading achievement. Experimental tasks required su...

Content contribution from individuals is critical to the viability of online communities. In this study we identify the factors that are associated with the quantity and the quality of content sharing in a photo sharing community, where the act of content creation is decoupled from the act of content sharing. We draw on theories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and find that the prospect ...

Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (pPNET) is a highly aggressive small round cell tumor belonging to PNET/Ewing sarcoma family. Ovarian tumors composed of primitive neuroectodermal elements are extremely rare. Herein we reported two cases of peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors of ovary in two patients with different clinical presentations. Definite diagnoses were made bas...

primitive neuroectodermal tumors of the kidney are rare tumors representing about 1% of all sarcomas. extraskeletal primitive neuroectodermal tumors may be found in the genitourinary tract, the testes, ovaries, uterus, or pancreas. renal primitive neuroec- todermal tumors are frequently aggressive and almost 30% of all newly diagnosed cases present with distant metastases. surgical intervention...

This paper addresses the problem of the evaluation of people counting systems. The relation between the real people number and the output of the people counting system is used to motivate the computation of the maximum number of people as a scenario and geometry specific quantity which supports the evaluation of the system output. Based on the camera field-of-view we determine the maximum numbe...

This paper presents an innovative communication system for people with disability built on a robotic device. The communication between the user and the robot is based on the user's electromyographic (EMG) signals. User can issue high-level commands to the robot through a novel EMG based control. The robot controller is capable of decomposing these high-level commands into primitive subtasks usi...

primitive  neuroectodermal  tumor  (pnet)  of  kidney  is  an  extremely  rare  renal  neoplasm  with only about fifty reported cases in literature.  presumably,of neural crest origin, these tumors behave  aggressively  and  carry  a  poor prognosis.  we  report  a  case  of  22-year  old  female  patient complaining of left loin pain with recurrent hematuria for last 3 months. on clinical exam...