Mixed results of attitude as a determinant of information system (IS) adoption suggest that there is more to an attitude's impact than evaluating the IS or its usage as favorable or unfavorable. This paper goes beyond the favorable-unfavorable valence of attitude by introducing the concept of attitude strength, which explains whether an attitude is strong, that is impactful and durable. First, ...

F often have to make their production decisions under conditions of demand uncertainty. This is especially true for product categories such as automobiles and technology goods where the lead time needed for manufacturing forces firms to make production decisions well in advance of the selling season. Once the firm has produced the goods, the available production volume affects the firm’s subseq...

For all our concern about the damage caused to art by the environment, there are no data which allow us to connect measured environmental variables with the rate of deterioration of the art in exhibition or storage. Recent proposals for rating the suitability of spaces and the vulnerability of individual objects require a durability of electronic data which is very unlikely to be achieved. This...

The development of an effective strategy for the inspection and monitoring of the nation’s critical bridges has become necessary due to aging, increased traffic loads, changing environmental conditions, and advanced deterioration. This article presents the development of a probabilistic mechanistic modeling approach supported by durability monitoring to obtain improved predictions of service li...

New discoveries presented in the last decade for enhancing boiling performance utilizing nanoscale structures on surfaces are critically examined in this paper. Since the mechanism for such a phenomenon is not fully understood, this review mainly focuses on the implementation of nanostructures on these surfaces as well as on the interpretation of underlying phenomena for changing the boiling pe...

BACKGROUND If successfully implemented and enduring, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stands to expand health insurance access in absolute terms, reduce inter-group disparities in that access, and reduce exposure to the financial vulnerabilities illness entails. Its durability--meaning both avoidance of outright retrenchment and fidelity to its policy aims--is thus of scholarly interest. Past lite...

Introduction: The most common cancer is Breast Cancer and the first principal purpose of cancer deaths in females of 44-40 ages. The currency of three negative breast cancer involves 10-17%. his sort cancer of the breast is described by a negative receptor of estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 that is much more competitive than the other kinds and the forecast is weaker. Therefore, this research ...

This document gives information about the usage of wheelchairs based on renewable energy systems. The renewable energy systems which are discussed in this paper are batteries and solar panels. It also gives a report on the efficiency and durability of batteries and solar panels.Explanatory material is followed by a worked example and problems with answers. ————————————————————

The year 2014 marked the fortieth anniversary of Portugal’s Revolution of the Carnations, which inaugurated what Samuel P. Huntington dubbed the “third wave” of global democratization. Any assessment of the state of global democracy today must begin by recognizing—even marveling at—the durability of this historic transformation. When the third wave began in 1974, only about 30 percent of the wo...