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In the United States, public technology funding is distributed differently across state lines. This impacts service and access to information particularly as it pertains to critical broadband access. Funding and service trends have changed, especially as it relates to public libraries, with some modifications working to their advantage and some to their detriment. As information is increasingly moving...
The Indian educational system caters to a diverse population. This diversity adds to the complexity and hence requires the support of technology to reach out to the masses. The Government has launched a lot of initiatives for the adoption of technology in education. Despite these efforts, there has been a gap in the actual adoption. In this paper we present the results of our study of current trends...
A commonly recognised and significant problem faced by those suffering from addiction to drugs and alcohol and other substances (or repetitive patterns of behaviour) is the lack of easily accessed, educational technologies currently available to them. Recovery based material exists but there is no cohesive option which is able to offer a fully multi-media opportunity for: self-reflection, communication...
Electronic Health Records (EHR) is very important during Hajj period. This paper investigates a new mechanism that creates sharing platform between Health ministry and Hajj ministry to keep pilgrims health records online by using special devices. This environment will provide preemptive approach to reduce health problems and reducing the time and cost for healthcare delivery. Moreover, this mechanism...
The Information technology (IT) plays a key role in the functioning of the modern era. The evolution of computer is very fast. It improves the efficiency of processing, the capacity of memory and the transmission rate of network. The procurement department will procure the new resources. They did not know that equipment suit any budget because they may not track changes or the development of a computer...
The purpose of the study was to determine the individual investor behavior and to develop the individual investor profile in terms of their risk profile, influence of demographic factors on investment behavior and nature of investment products of the investors in Karur district, Tamilnadu. The investment preferences, choice of investments and other factors influencing the investment decisions were...
We present an automated method for decomposing EMG signals into their components, motor-unit action-potential (MUAP) trains based on short time Fourier transform STFT and wavelet transform. Since the number of MUAP classes composing the EMG signal, the number of MUAP's per class, their firing pattern, and the expected shape of the MUAP waveforms are unknown, the decomposition of real EMG signals into...
Information Systems Adoption is a multi-faceted and complex investigation area that can cross disciplinary boundaries, combine multiple research methods and consider different methodological approaches to analyse emerging IS Adoption phenomena. In order to generate valuable and reliable outcomes a research methodology has to be carefully determined. A persistent concern of the IS discipline is choosing...
Due to the constantly changing nature of our society, the ability to make correct decisions is crucial for decision-makers. Understanding science-technology linkages and knowledge flows are of critical importance for decision-makers. A recent surge of research on patent has given us new opportunities and challenges; and there are many advances that have been made in the area of patent analysis. Therefore,...
Seemingly inspired by U.S. Bayh-Dole Act, many economics in distinctive contexts have been, if by agreed prior, promoting similar technology-or/and UIR-related legislation (university-industry relationships, UIRs), as a means of top-down policy aimed at commercializing result of academic research. Simultaneously, there are considerable studies paid attentions on the effect of technology legislation...
The assessment of photovoltaic technologies using multiple perspectives such as social, technological, economic, environmental, and political (STEEP) have become increasingly important in the last several years. Each perspective is composed of multiple criteria with the social and political perspectives gaining more significance. A hierarchical decision model using expert judgment quantification was...
This paper looks at the newly materializing nanotechnology industry in Japan, and attempts to answer the question of what processes shape the formation and change of the organizational field network. Nanotechnology is a loosely-coupled field and includes organizations from a diverse set of industries and fields that evolved through different historical pathways. To understand the boundaries of the...
The paper builds on a regional economic development framework that was developed as an advisory guide to regional governments internationally; as part of a UN-Habitat funded project. The original framework was based on ten case studies that served as illustrations of the implementation of the introduced economic development mechanisms. This paper provides an in-depth investigation into the practical...
Based on the data of Chinese public understanding towards science survey in 2010, it has set some items to get general public attitudes toward science and technology. In order to study the features of different people attitudes toward science and technology, we have developed a two-dimensional model of attitude toward science and technology fitted in China which was tested by the confirmatory factor...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between firms' appropriation strategy and open innovation. We identify four distinct groups of appropriation strategy in the electronics sector by Latent Class Analysis of data from the third Taiwan Innovation Survey and Taiwan Economic Journal databank. These four groups of appropriation strategy are proactive group, first-mover group,...
ICT (Information & Communication Technology) has been touted as having the potential to solve a number of educational issues faced in rural parts of developing countries, however little research has been done to assess the impact of ICT based education on teacher student relationship and interaction. An action research approach is used to explore the impact of introducing ICT as a new learning...
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have received considerable attention in the field of public management, business management, and strategy. However, researchers have mostly focused on public policies, public sector reform, and social problems, leaving how PPPs co-create value largely studied. Aiming at theorizing PPPs, this study reviews research on PPPs and value-based strategies including value...
The research mainly uses the case studies method, the qualitative research method and the comparison study method to analyze whether social organizations participate in science communication in China is valid. About the contents of the research, the study firstly introduces the establishment of the Activity Center in the First Senior High School in Hong he county, Yunnan province. Secondly, the study...
The concept of innovation has been evolving. In the past, innovation was translated into Gijutsu-kakushin (technological reform), and the scope was limited to technology. However, today the scope of innovation has been expanding and it also includes "service innovation" as well as "social innovation." Social innovation is still a very new concept in Japan. After 3.11 (Great East...
Knowledge is power. In today's Information age, education is the de facto tool which enables thinking by transforming information into knowledge. It is valued to such an extent that the right to education is considered to be one of the fundamental rights of the people. However education is often disparaged. According to the United Nations, India is home to a staggering 287 million illiterate adults...
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