the conversion of god's will (bada`), acceptance or repudiation

Which Will Overcome? The Productivity or Risk Premium

The study investigates consumers’ preference for cowpea reflected in the Nigerian markets through price discounts and premiums that consumers pay for different cowpea characteristics. The price data used for this study were obtained through a market survey. A common data collection protocol was employed. Every month, between October 2009 to December 2010, five cowpea samples per seller were bou...

Build It and They Will Come ... Or Will They ? An Investigation Into the Phenomena of Technology Acceptance

Why do users of technology, when faced with new applications that seemingly have everything to offer in terms of simplifying work processes, shortening cycle times, and improving customer service decide to reject them? This paper seeks to explore in more depth the phenomena of user acceptance and to illustrate the dynamics of user acceptance by way of a descriptive case study of a large company...

Data Readiness for BADA

Structure of the Head of the Bartonella Adhesin BadA

Trimeric autotransporter adhesins (TAAs) are a major class of proteins by which pathogenic proteobacteria adhere to their hosts. Prominent examples include Yersinia YadA, Haemophilus Hia and Hsf, Moraxella UspA1 and A2, and Neisseria NadA. TAAs also occur in symbiotic and environmental species and presumably represent a general solution to the problem of adhesion in proteobacteria. The general ...

The Scope of Man's Free Will

BADA-III/Web: Integration of the Web and an OODBMS

We believe in terms of information service systems that one of the best ways to develop a large scale database service system is to integrate the service capability of the Web and the data management facility of database systems in a complimentary fashion. In such integration a database gateway is the core component; the database gateway accesses database systems to serve the requests represent...