While there is a general consensus on the importance of human capital to regional development, debate has emerged around two key issues. The first involves the efficacy of educational versus occupational measures (i.e. the creative class) of human capital, while the second revolves around the factors that effect its distribution. We use structural equation models and path analysis to examine th...

It is no accident that inside most psychological theories of representation we can, if we look closely enough, discern a small person with his eyes on a screen and his hands on the controls. The metaphor is so seductive that almost all theories of perception succumb to it (as Kaufman, 1974 has noted in his recent review of theories in perception). True, we try to deliver the homonculus a better...

With the advances in Information Technology (IT), the potential of IT in enabling enterprise agility has received increasing attention from practitioners and the academia in recent years. However, despite the recent advance of knowledge on agility and IT innovation, the relationship between the adoption of IT and enterprise agility is often treated as a “black box” and empirical validation of t...

Database researchers, statisticians, and \data owners" often have quite di erent views of data. In a database context the traditional goal has been to provide a general and exible data management framework, with less concern about the content of the data. Statisticians on the other hand have traditionally focused primarily on issues of data modeling and inference with relatively little concern ...

Microbial communities are the basis for engineered environmental bioprocesses. However, current methods, including 16S rDNA-based techniques, are incapable of providing information on the function of the community or its members, and thus the community remains a black box from a functional perspective. Microbial community proteomics has the potential to detect proteins expressed in an environme...

drug design is generally achieved through trial and error methods, which is a time and resource consuming process and novel methods are needed to improve it. mathematical modelling is one of the possible solutions to speed up this process. in this study, we have presented box-jenkins model, to predict the vasorelaxant activity (pec50) of a set of benzopyrane compounds. we used the hyperchem sof...

Industrial software development is a highly complex, dynamic task, which is not only determined by the choice of the right technologies but also – to a large degree – by the knowledge and skills of the people involved. The success of software organisations depends on its ability to facilitate continuous improvement of products and processes (strategic level) and on the effectiveness and efficie...

This paper presents a new black-box technique for modeling long term memory effects in radio frequency power amplifiers. The proposed technique extends commonly used behavioral models by utilizing parameters that dynamically change depending on a long term memory effect while keeping the original model structure intact. This enables us to accurately track and model transient changes in power am...