Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) has been used to transfer large volumes of radio astronomical data between the Radio Astronomical Observatory at Warkworth, New Zealand and various international organizations involved in joint projects and VLBI observations. Here we report on the current status of connectivity and on the results of testing different data transfer protocols. ...

To be effective and sustain themselves over time, public-private partnerships must make evaluation a priority. Specifically, partnerships should evaluate 1) their infrastructure, function, and processes; 2) programs designed to achieve their mission, goals, and objectives; and 3) changes in health and social status, organizations, systems, and the broader community. This article describes how t...

In the cloud computing era, in order to avoid computational burdens, many organizations tend to outsource their computations to third-party cloud servers. In order to protect service quality, the integrity of computation results need to be guaranteed. In this paper, we develop a game theoretic framework which helps the outsourcer to minimize its cost while ensuring the integrity of the outsourc...

The paper applies survival analysis to identify the determinants of terrorist group duration. Our sample includes 367 terrorist organizations that operated during 1970–2007. Consistent with the theory, determinants of these groups’ survival include their tactics, size, ideological basis, region of operation, and base-country characteristics. Cross-sectional and panel estimates are provided. Ter...

Why do employees engage in innovative behavior at their workplaces? We examine how employees’ innovative behavior is explained by expectations for such behavior to affect job performance (expected positive performance outcomes) and image inside their organizations (expected image risks and expected image gains). We found significant effects of all three outcome expectations on innovative behavi...

A project was devised to develop a set of freely available applications and web services that can (1) simplify access from Mobile Devices to TOVAS data and (2) support the development of new datasets through data repackaging and mash-up. The bottom-up approach enables the multiplication of new services, often of limited direct interest to the organizations that produces the original, global dat...

This study proposes a frontline learning process by which organizations capture new knowledge generated by frontline employees in addressing productivity-quality tradeoffs during customer interactions and transform it into updated knowledge for frontline use. Updated knowledge, in turn, is posited to influence customer satisfaction and financial outcomes (i.e., revenue, efficiency). Empirical t...

In recent years progress in quality assurance for software products has mainly been made in the area of testing, i.e. executing the software with the aim to cause failures which in turn are signs for software defects. Inspection techniques seek defects in software artifacts or any other intermediate document directly. As it is, quality assurance departments in software organizations recognize t...