Competency in the use of ICT is enjoying renewed attention in the research and practice, but there may be a notable lack of a deeper theoretical view in this area of interest. This paper presents a grounded theory that revolves around three core elements namely: e-Competency Sets, e-Competency Acquisition, and Triggers. It is proposed that the practitioner possesses an eCompetency Set, consisti...

Dr.-Ing. Johannes Schmitt hat 2004 sein Diplom in Informatik an der TU Darmstadt erhalten. Seit 2005 arbeitet er dort als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Fachgebiet Multimedia Kommunikation. Der Fokus seiner Arbeiten und seiner Dissertation liegt auf der Erkennung relevanter Sensoren, sowie der semantischen Anreicherung der gesammelten Informationen und selbstlernender Algorithmen zur Entsche...

This paper points out a conceptual difficulty in using a variance decomposition to assess the quantitative importance of news shocks. A variance decomposition will attribute to news shocks movements in endogenous variables driven both by news about future exogenous fundamentals that has yet to materialize (what I call “pure news”) as well as movements driven by realized changes in fundamentals ...

Past IS research suggests it is challenging to build digital infrastructures and then make sure they grow. While more users, innovative services, and new partners spur infrastructure evolution, we know little of the specific contextual triggers that set these generative mechanisms in motion. To this end, we conduct a case study of a digitalized public transport infrastructure to identify such t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of trigger point injection with or without ischemic compression in treatment of myofascial trigger points in the upper trapezius muscle. METHODS SIXTY PATIENTS WITH ACTIVE MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS IN UPPER TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE WERE RANDOMLY DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS: group 1 (n=20) received only trigger point injections, group 2 (n=20) received trigger point ...

From about the mid-1980' s to the mid-1990' s there was a flurry of research activity in the area of database triggers and constraints, seeing the development of numerous research proposals and prototypes. Soon thereafter, most mainstream database products ramped up their support for constraints and triggers, with expressive constraint specifications appearing in the SQL-92 standard, and both c...

The overall goal of this paper is to open up a new perspective on questions in Urdu/Hindi. The paper focuses particularly on word order variation involving wh-elements. An analysis is developed which seeks to understand these variations not in terms of syntax-specific movement triggers, but via an integration of i(nformation)-structure, more precisely in terms of strategies for information pack...