This study evaluated how individuals living on the Gulf Coast perceived hurricane risk after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It was hypothesized that hurricane outlook and optimistic bias for hurricane risk would be associated positively with distance from the Katrina-Rita landfall (more optimism at greater distance), controlling for historically based hurricane risk and county population density,...

Along with the increased competition in production and service areas, many organizations attempt to provide their products at a lower price higher quality. On other hand, consideration of environmental criteria conventional supplier selection methodologies is required for companies trying promote green supply chain management (GSCM). In this regard, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniq...

ABSTRACT Purpose: This study describes the reasons for professionals to stay or leave information technology (IT) organizations in Santa Catarina. Originality/value: Technology have experienced challenges retaining professionals. Therefore, this contributes literature on subject by presenting professionals’ perceptions about their voluntarily staying leaving these organizations. Design/methodol...

This paper presents an overall view about the most common methods for implementing task schemes for process control from the operating system point of view as well as from the Occam point of view. They are discussed and compared in a comparative study. In addition the best known development platforms He-lios, ParC, Inmos Toolsets and Parix are introduced. Their signiicant features are presented...

Service oriented computing and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing are emerging technologies which provide, from the architectural point of view, scalability and flexibility. From their properties both architectures are quite similar, e.g. in both architectures nobody has a complete system overview and no central administration exists. Besides other challenges, this leads to the question how data can ...

If you had a chance to travel around recently in some of the main roads in the major cities in India such as Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai (Madras) in the recent years, you might have noticed banners and posters advertising for bioinformatics or, more broad-based, biotechnology organizations rather like advertisement boards of hotels, cellular phones and computers. Biotechnology and Bioinfor...

My aim is to provide a brief account of the research on speech at Haskins Laboratories as seen from my point of view. In pursuit of that aim, I will scant most experiments and their outcomes, putting the emphasis, rather, on the changing assumptions that, as I understood them, guided the research or were guided by it. I will be particularly concerned to describe the development of those assumpt...