ABST.RACT: Recent research has shown that user satisfaction and productivity are affected by system response time. Our purpose is to provide the results of empirical research on system response time and its effect on state anxietly. Test subjects were classified as Type A or Type B personality in order to determine if personality type had any affect on the relationship between system response t...

In the past few decades, many studies have been conducted on the positive effects of mindfulness, a state of openness to novelty in which an individual actively constructs categories and distinctions. The authors tested the applicability of Langer’s (1989a) mindfulness theory to Holland’s (1997) vocational personalities. Data from 156 Israeli full-time employees were collected. The results link...

Online collaborative learning has typically been studied within the context of learning communities. Little is known about the potential influence of students’ personalities on online communication, group interaction, and task engagement among members of a learning community. This study used a mixed-method, triangulation design, involving the collection and analysis of both quantitative and qua...

Infections are still a major problem in the developing countries like Pakistan because of poor sewage disposal and economic restraints. Acute viral hepatitis like Aand E are not uncommon in pediatric age group because of unhygienic food handling and poor sewage disposal, but majority recovers well without any complications. Co-infections are rare occurrences and physicians need to be well aware...

Hatano, Etsuro, and David A. Brenner Akt protects mouse hepatocytes from TNF-aand Fas-mediated apoptosis through NK-kB activation. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 282: G1357–G1368, 2002.—To determine the role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt and nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) in protecting hepatocytes from tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a)and Fas-mediated apoptosis, we pretreated pr...

Digital personalities are virtual characters that possess situation dependent, personality revealing behaviors. This paper introduces concepts, current and prospective usages of personality-rich virtual characters, and focus on authoring issues for artists that want to create digital portrays of digital persons. Different categories of digital personalities are introduced, in particular virtual...

Decoupling behavior modeling from a specific inheritance hierarchy has become one of the challenges for objectoriented software engineering. The goal is to encapsulate behavior on its own, and yet be able to freely apply it to a given class structure. We claim that standard objectoriented languages do not directly address this problem and propose the concept of Personalities as a design and pro...