One of the most important developments in recent sociological theory is the relationship between ‘social structure’ and ‘social agency.’ According to George Ritzer (1996), this issue has been mostly investigated among European theorists, while, on the other side, the parallel issue of the ‘micro-macro linkage’ has attracted the main interest in American sociological theory. Again, according to ...

System Usage has been employed as a key variable in Information System (IS) success research over the past three decades. Despite the obvious popularity of employing Usage as a measure of IS success, a recent study by Burton-Jones and Straub (2006) allude to the weaknesses in Usage in IS research. The key weaknesses they identified include; lack of theoretical grounding, no widely accepted defi...

This research applies contributions from the social sciences to examine how organizations adapt information systems in a project team setting. Its main concern is to study the set of events and actions implicated in the institutionalization of an information system. The motivation for this research has been to address the following questions: why are well designed information systems so often n...

During each ovarian cycle, only a definite number of follicles ovulate, while the others undergo a degeneration process called atresia. We have designed a multi-scale mathematical model where ovulation and atresia result from a hormonal controlled selection process. A 2D-conservation law describes the age and maturity structuration of the follicular cell population. In this paper, we focus on t...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine challenges experienced in implementing data protection laws.
 Methodology: This adopted a desktop methodology. used secondary from which include review existing literature already published studies and reports that was easily accessed through online journals libraries.
 Findings: concludes monitoring inspections by regulatory authority b...

This study explores the perceptions of bribery among senior public servants within Papua New Guinea’s (PNG’s) government departments. Using structuration theory, consideration is given to individual, cultural and organisational factors influencing bribery, based on interviews with 11 from three Findings reveal that most acknowledged exists in PNG’s sector. Perceptions perceived reasons for typi...

Social media has profound impact on society and affects many aspects of human life. Its applications in combating crises are unanticipated results of social media inventors and many lessons could be learned from its applications in combating real crises. From July 2011 to January 2012, Thailand experienced a 7-month flood disaster and more than 13.6 million people were affected. Hundreds of soc...

Introduction. We report results of a study of how ordering and reading of printouts of medical records by regular and inexperienced readers relate to how the records are used, to the health information practices of patients, and to their expectations of the usefulness of new e-Health services and online access to medical records. Method. The study is based on a combined postaland Web-survey of ...