The primary purpose of this study is to identify the key predictor of undergraduate students’ intentions to use social networking sites. Technology acceptance model with three main unobserved variables, attitude, perceived behavior control, and subjective norms was employed as research framework. Seven other unobserved variables were added to the research framework. A technology acceptance ques...

We examined factors related to attitudes toward marriage and the importance of having children in both the US and Singapore. Path analysis indicated that life dissatisfaction leads to materialism, and both of these factors lead to favorable attitudes toward marriage, which leads to greater desire for children. Further analysis indicated this model was effective in explaining the difference in d...

Several protocols have been proposed to synchronize the logical processes (LP’s) of a parallel discrete event simulation (PDES). While most protocols have been known to perform well under certain conditions, the general observation has been that the performance of protocols is sensitive to the application being simulated, sometimes even to a particular instance of it. In this technical note, we...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the most important crops worldwide that is a subject of many plant breeding programs in many countries. In addition, climates are changing all over the world and drought becomes one of the most serious problems versus yield of crops. In order to screen drought tolerant genotype in Chickpea, twenty genotypes were tested under rainfed and irrigated...

understanding the relationship between root yield and other traits in sugar beet may be a crucial step towards successful breeding of this important crop. path analysis provides a useful method in analyzing the genetic and phenotypic coefficients of correlations. this method is able to effectively unveil direct and indirect effects among traits of interest. in this research, root yield, yield c...

Profiling can effectively analyze program behavior and provide critical information for feedback-directed or dynamic optimizations. Based on memory profiling, reuse distance analysis has shown much promise in predicting data locality for a program using inputs other than the profiled ones. Both wholeprogram and instruction-based locality can be accurately predicted by reuse distance analysis. R...

Path Analysis is the statistical technique used to examine causal relationships between two or more variables. It is based upon a linear equation system and was first developed by Sewall Wright in the 1930s for use in phylogenetic studies. Path Analysis was adopted by the social sciences in the 1960s and has been used with increasing frequency in the ecological literature since the 1970s. In ec...

Program analysis usually works on control flow graphs (CFGs) and on a call graph (CG). The standard CGs contain one node for each function, but for precise analyses, it may be desirable to distinguish function invocations by their execution history. This distinction is useful, e.g., to improve the precision of worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis for real-time systems. Our WCET analysis su...

We denote by Bp,T (Rd) the Banach space which consists of continuous paths starting at 0 with finite p-variation norm ‖ ‖p. The 1-variation norm of x is the same as the total variation of x. The p-variation norm defines a weaker topology of the C1-path space with x0 = 0. Actually it is proved that I0,T (x) is a continuous functional of x in the p-variation topology for any 1 ≤ p < 2. However it...