In recent years, IS researchers have begun to examine the broader societal impacts of information systems (IS) and technologies. As such, researchers have sought out various approaches to develop the technological capacity of nonprofit and community-based organizations (NCOs). The concept of user participation is gaining increasing attention as a malleable approach to achieve this goal. This pa...

We examine magnetic and electric near horizon regions of maximally supersymmetric D– brane and NS5–brane bound states and find transformations between near horizon regions with worldvolume dual magnetic and electric fluxes. These point to dual formulations of NCYM, NCOS and ODp theories in the limit of weak coupling and large spatial or temporal non-commutativity length scale in terms of weakly...

Equivalent black carbon (eBC) mass concentrations were measured by an aethalometer (AE-31) in the Nam Co, central Tibet from 2010 to 2014. Different from previous filter-sampling studies (Ming et al., J Environ Sci 22(11):1748-1756, 2010; Zhao et al., Environ Sci Pollut Res 20:5827-5838, 2013), the first high-resolution online eBC measurement conducted in central Tibet is reported here, allowin...

This article analyses the lessons learned by Spanish Army in Security Force Assistance (SFA) Operation Iraq between 2015 and 2020. The research uses primary data from 22 personal interviews conducted with officers NCOs, as well secondary sourced a database containing Army’s online mission register. results identify scenarios activities performed SFA operations, main Iraq. two are prevention of ...

Background: Decompressive laminectomy is the most common operation performed to treat spinal stenosis. This study was performed in order to evaluate surgical outcomes between laminectomy at the L3/L4 level compared with L4/ L5. Methods: The patients diagnosed with one level stenosis at L3/L4 or L4/ L5 who were candidate for surgery entered into this cross-sectional study. The outcome measures w...

This is a short review of the newly discovered ODp-theories that are nongravitational six-dimensional theories defined as the decoupling limit of NS5-branes in the presence of a near-critical (p+1)-form RR fields. We discuss the motivation for these new theories, their definitions and properties, and their relation to NCOS theory, OM theory and Little String Theory, focusing on the cases p = 1, 2.

Reducing mental health stigma and perceived barriers to care is a necessary strategy for addressing the public health problem of suicide among the United States Armed Forces. The purpose of this study was threefold: (a) to empirically evaluate the principal component structure of the Perceived Barriers to Care (PBTC) measure; (b) to gain an understanding of the perceived barriers to seeking men...

The vast majority of meiotic recombination events (crossovers (COs) and non-crossovers (NCOs)) cluster in narrow hotspots surrounded by large regions devoid of recombinational activity. Here, using a new molecular approach in plants, called "pollen-typing", we detected and characterized hundreds of CO and NCO molecules in two different hotspot regions in Arabidopsis thaliana. This analysis reve...