The main question addressed in this paper is how to bring IS innovation in a highly regulated environment. The major challenge is that in domains that are highly regulated (such as Customs, Energy, and Healthcare), legal requirements often hinder the innovation process and the subsequent adoption of innovation. While adoption and diffusion of innovation has been the subject of extensive discuss...

In this study a non-associated viscoplastic flow rule (NAVFR) with combining von Mises and Tresca loci in place of yield and plastic potential functions and vice verse is presented. With the aid of fully implicit time stepping scheme and discussing the other studies on plastic potential flow rules and also experimental results it is shown that the proposed NAVFR can be adopted to forecast the e...

An interaction potential at different orientation for the CH4 and CO2 complex was derived at theB3LYP level of theory and 6-31+G* basis sets. The potential energy surface was computed on somemolecular geometries. The complete basis set limit of the interaction energies were fitted to wellknownanalytical functions. To determine the second virial coefficients B, U(r) is used to obtain themodel’s ...

Applying certain known theorems about one-dimensional periodic potentials, we show that the energy spectrum of the associated Lamé potentials a(a+ 1)m sn(x,m) + b(b+ 1)m cn(x,m)/dn(x,m) consists of a finite number of bound bands followed by a continuum band when both a and b take integer values. Further, if a and b are unequal integers, we show that there must exist some zero band-gap states, i...