Contemporary research on business value has examined the impacts of IT investments at various levels of analysis. This research examines the impacts of IT investments by a partner. The impacts of partner’s investments are examined for the individual firms, as well as for the overall value co-created for the relationship. Further, we examine whether the value that is co-created is in fact approp...

Symba is a Web-based framework designed to support collective activities in a learning context. It has been constructed with a double objective, (1) make students explicitly work out their organization and (2) provide tailorability features to allow the students to decide about the tools and resources they want to be accessible in order to achieve the tasks they have defined. Symba dissociates ...

the stream of consciousness deals with the psychological aspects of the characters in a novel. it refers to one’s entire domain of consciousness and his emotional-psychological reaction which begins from pre-speech level and ends in a completely separate logical section. the story of al-safibah (the ship) by jabra ibrahim jabra is a modern arab story written in this manner. using a mixture of o...

Consciousness’ role in high-level semantic integration is still unclear. Here, we presented masked pairs of images, which could be unrelated (e.g., a broken plate and an eagle), associatively related (e.g., a broken plate and a fork) or abstractly related (e.g., a broken plate and a fighting couple). Low-level features of the pairs were controlled for. In each trial, a masked pair (prime) was f...

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies which concern childcare services are assumed to reduce the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may explain differences in h...

It is easy for an expert to express his/her preferences using fuzzy linguistic term such as ‘good’, ‘very good’ in group decision making because of uncertainty existing. The linguistic 2-tuple representation model was selected to represent fuzzy linguistic term. To obtain the objective decision power in a linguistic 2-tuple judgment matrix given by an expert, the paper put forward a new approac...

The paper focuses on the question of what the (visual) perceptual differences are between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing (TD) individuals. We argue against the view that autistic subjects have a deficiency in the most basic form of perceptual consciousness-namely, phenomenal consciousness. Instead, we maintain, the perceptual atypicality of individuals...

Discussion of tacit knowledge shows much ambiguity over key aspects of the concept. Rather than turning to further theory, this paper examines how the phrase has been applied in empirical research. Eight different uses of the term are identified, six concerning individual level and two collective level notions. Focusing on individual level notions it is argued that some of these uses involve ex...

Internet users' behaviors are dependent on their ethical dimensions. But ethics are quite relative concepts and they have dimensionality over culture, situation, and personal interests. Due to the various ethical dimensions, conflicts arise at an individual level, collective level, and societal level. In this paper, such ethical dimensions in the information society are discussed in the context...

A product-family is a suite of integrated tools that share a common infrastructure. Program synthesis of individual tools can replicate common code, leading to unnecessarily large executables and longer build times. In this paper, we present remodularization techniques that optimize the synthesis of product-families. We show how tools can be automatically remodularized so that shared files are ...