Organizations relied on geographically distributed teams to manage all functional aspects of their business. Two different firms that were successfully providing IT support for such complex environments were studied. The two case studies made it apparent that team cohesion, well-defined group norms, and effective feedback contributed to the firms’ abilities to provide effective IT support in a ...

This chapter introduces the notion of User Interfaces for All, elaborates on the motivating rationale and examines its key implications on Human-Computer Interaction. The underlying vision of User Interfaces for All is to provide an approach for the development of computational environments catering for the broadest possible range of human abilities, skills, requirements and preferences. Conseq...

Setting up security associations between end-user devices is a challenging task when it needs to be done by ordinary users. The increasing popularity of powerful personal electronics with wireless communication abilities has made the problem more urgent than ever before. During the last few years, several solutions have appeared in the research literature. Several standardization bodies have al...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to evaluate whether effects of exposure to environmental levels of PCBs and dioxins on development in the Dutch cohort persist until school age. STUDY DESIGN In the Dutch PCB/dioxin study, cognitive and motor abilities were assessed with the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities in children at school age. During infancy, half of this population was fully breast-fed...

Navigation through an environment is a fundamental human activity. Although group differences in navigational ability are documented (e.g., gender), little is known about traits that predict these abilities. Apart from a well-established link between mental rotational abilities and navigational learning abilities, recent studies point to an influence of trait anxiety on the formation of interna...

objective: human basic fibroblast growth factor (bfgf) plays an important role in cellular proliferation, embryonic development, and angiogenesis as well as in several signaling pathways of various cell types. bfgf is an essential growth factor for the maintenance of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells (hescs) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hipscs). materials and methods: in ...

In this research, dipeptide (his-β-alanine) and porphyrin derivatives were choosen for comparing chelating ability of toxic metals such as Al3+, Cu2+, Hg2+ and Pb2+ in vitro. The reason for choosing these two compounds is that both of them are naturally present in biological systems and comparison of chelating ability of these two compounds has not yet been done. Synthesis and comparison of kin...

This study examines the interrelationships between firm’s core competence, human resource practices and corporate strategy. Through the qualitative interview with four short-term training institutions in Taiwan, the results of this show that these firms indeed systematically arrange their human resource practices to support corporate strategy and foster needed core competence. When a company se...