The research project examines expectations as well as organizational and technological cognitive beliefs influencing a company’s intention to continue using on-demand enterprise systems in the post-acceptance phase. Expectation-confirmation theory from behavior literature is integrated with Delone & McLean’s model of IS success to theorize a model of IS continuance on company level. The decisio...

Digestion begins with the prehension (grasping) of food by the lips, tongue and teeth. Horses have very mobile lips that help them select desirable feeds and avoid those that are undesirable. Many of us have witnessed this lip dexterity—ever wonder how some horses skillfully sort out powdered medications you have tried to hide in their sweet feed, or what about the soggy pellets left behind in ...

This paper describes work in progress studying a cellular au-tomata model of epidemic dynamics on a spatial network. We assume that susceptible individuals become aware of the presence of infection within their local neighborhood, and change their behavior so as to reduce the risk of becoming infected. Two controls are considered: reducing the number of contacts (" staying at home "), and reduc...

Purpose – The effects of social learning and network externalities in the diffusion of a new product imply that there should be local spillovers from existing owners to new adopters in a closely-related community. Using the 1999 durable consumption survey data in rural China, this paper examines the importance of local spillovers in the diffusion of two major durable goods, washing machine and ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated live house dust mite and mite allergen removal from clothing and bedding by washing machines. No studies have investigated the transfer of mites from infested to uninfested clothing and bedding during washing. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to wash different types of clothing and bedding in residential washing machines to determine the live De...

This study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of various physical methods for decontaminating kitchen sponges. Sponges were distributed to participants to be used in the home on a daily basis, after which time they were collected for analysis. Bacterial concentrations were determined using the spectrophotometer. A sample from each sponge was submerged in nutrient broth, and incubated...

An unusual increase in the frequency of isolation of Mycobacterium chelonae subspecies chelonae from specimens of bronchial washings was found between September and December 1992 in National Taiwan University Hospital. During this period, a total of 123 patients underwent fibreoptic bronchoscopy with an Olympus P20. Seventy six patients had bronchial washing for bacteriological study and cytolo...

Energy constraints have altered consumer practice regarding the use of household washing machines. Washing machines were developed that use lower washing temperatures, smaller amounts of water and biodegradable detergents. These conditions may favour the enrichment of opportunistic human pathogenic fungi. We focused on the isolation of fungi from two user-accessible parts of washing machines th...