This paper presents a case study of a community technology center (CTC) located in a lower income neighborhood of a high-tech city. Participant observation and interview-based research determined that while the CTC was popular among its targeted constituents, its use was not consistent with what the center’s supporters and policymakers envisioned. The emergent discrepancy between policymaker rh...

in this paper, a new algorithm for studying elastic wave propagation in the phononic crystals is presented. at first, the displacement-based forms of elastic wave equations are derived and then the forms are discretized using finite difference method. so the new algorithm is called the displacement-based finite difference time domain (dbfdtd). three numerical examples are computed with this met...

Much discussion in the new product development (NPD) literature is concerned with describing blueprints for more effective systems for managing the process. Features of the emergent pattern of good practice in NPD include cross-functional team working, early involvement, effective project management arrangements and learning systems. However, there is relatively little in the literature on the ...

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor-augmenting properties of technological...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 219 Back to School ........................................................................... 219 A New Economy ....................................................................... 220 A New Framework .................................................................... 220 Some Caveats ..................

Since Government transparency and information open has got more attention by both academia and practitioners with the development of information technologies (IT) and Internet, The popularity of Web 2.0 application provides the government some new opportunities and challenges. Official documents exchange via microblogging (ODEM) in the Bureau of Justice, Haining is a practice case of government...

The importance of knowledge management to business increases and there are few signs that the pace would slow down. This is due to the fact that more and more of the added value companies create is built on the tacit and explicit knowledge that individuals possess and create. The purpose of a company is, by its existence, to produce more value than individual actors operating alone. One of the ...

Scholars have established that team membership has wide-ranging effects on cognition, dynamics, processes and performance. Underlying that scholarship is the assumption that team membership – who is and who is not a team member – is straightforward, unambiguous and agreed upon by all members. Contrary to this assumption, I posit that as a result of changing environmental conditions, mental mode...

Pulmonary oedema in a patient with hypertrophic subaortic stenosis undergoing extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is described. This event occurred upon emergence from the bath. It is suggested that pulmonary oedema followed emergence because of a reduction in central venous pressures and a decrease in preload which led to transient dynamic obstruction. Treatment with beta adrenergic blockade...

anti-müllerian hormone (amh) has been observed to decrease with the development of hemorrhagic anovulatory follicles (hafs) in mares. two studies were conducted to evaluate amh concentration in mares with hafs compared to seasonally anoestrous and cyclic mares, and to elucidate changes of amh with the development of luteinised unruptured follicles (lufs). in study 1, amh and progesterone were e...