Straight-through-processing (STP) is an emerging IT-based innovation for financial services that redefines the way organizations can exchange business-critical information without manual intervention during the transaction lifecycle. While some progress has been made in understanding STP phenomena, few empirical studies have examined how STP innovation is adopted and diffused across organizatio...

Online social media has become an integral part of every Internet users’ life. It has given common people a platform and forum to share information, post their opinions and promote campaigns. The threat of exploitation of social media like Facebook, Twitter, etc. by malicious entities, becomes crucial during a crisis situation, like bomb blasts or natural calamities such as earthquakes and floo...

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language must be studied as a social behavior and the aim of language instruction must be to facilitate learners’ acquisition of communicative competence; the ability to speak both accurately and appropriately. rules of speaking must be included into second language classroom teaching. we should teach linguistic rules along with social rules. in this study a number of social functions in persia...

Social media has become an integral part of today’s web and allows users to share content and socialize. Understanding the factors that influence how users evolve over time for example how their social network and their contents co-evolve is an issue of both theoretical and practical relevance. This paper sets out to study the temporal co-evolution of content and social networks on Twitter and ...

Information streams provide today a prevalent way of publishing and consuming content on the Web, especially due to the great success of social networks. Top-k queries over the streams of interest allow limiting results to the most relevant content, while continuous processing of such queries is the most effective approach in large scale systems. However, current systems fail in combining conti...

PERENNIALLY the subject of a maximum on taxable earnings has been discussed in congressional hearings on the improvement of the social security system. An international comparison of bonthe taxable ceiling functions in certain other countries should be of interest in evaluating the United States maximum, particularly where there are features successful to some extent in coping with similar prob...