Black carbon (BC) aerosol strongly absorbs solar radiation, which warms climate. However, accurate estimation of BC's climate effect is limited by the uncertainties of its spatiotemporal distribution, especially over remote oceanic areas. The HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observation (HIPPO) program from 2009 to 2011 intercepted multiple snapshots of BC profiles over Pacific in various seasons, and revea...

IT usage is key issue in MIS research. However, a variety of models such as Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) have neglected the role of technology structure in studying IT usage. Alternatively, IT appropriation considers how IT is called into use in terms of IT technology structures. However, the practices of IT appropriation have not yet been convincingly demonstrated. This paper explores the...

The spatial boundary condition (SBC) arising from the surrounding microenvironment imposes specific geometry and spatial constraints that affect organogenesis and tissue homeostasis. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) sensitively respond to alterations of mechanical cues generated from the SBC. However, mechanical cues provided by a three-dimensional (3D) environment are deprived in a reductionis...

At the initial stages in neuronal development, GABAergic and glycinergic neurotransmission exert depolarizing responses, assumed to be of importance for maturation, which in turn shift to hyperpolarizing in early postnatal life due to development of the chloride homeostasis system. Spherical bushy cells (SBC) of the mammalian cochlear nucleus integrate excitatory glutamatergic inputs with inhib...

Given an increasingly complex web of financial pressures on providers, studies have examined how the hospitals' overall financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access and quality by introducing an important aspect of the financial incentives, soft budget constraints (SBC), that takes into account both hospital's c...

Server-based computing (SBC) is becoming a popular approach to deliver computational services across the network due to its reduced administrative costs and better resource utilization. In SBC, all application processing is done on servers while only screen updates are sent to clients. While many SBC encoding techniques have been explored for transmitting these screen updates efficiently, exist...

Spherical bushy cells (SBCs) of the anteroventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) receive input from large excitatory auditory nerve (AN) terminals, the endbulbs of Held, and mixed glycinergic/GABAergic inhibitory inputs. The latter have sufficient potency to block action potential firing in vivo and in slice recordings. However, it is not clear how well the data from slice recordings match the inhibit...

BACKGROUND Although autogenous bone grafts are considered the gold standard for bone regeneration, they have certain limitations, including patient morbidity at the harvest site. Synthetic bone substitutes have been developed to overcome some of these limitations. The present study aimed to compare the osteogenic properties of Straumann Bone Ceramic (SBC), which is a biphasic calcium phosphate,...

Diariamente suceden en empresas mineras eventos o accidentes de trabajo con resultados lesiones y fatalidades; acuerdo a estudios realizados la causa raíz más frecuente son por actitudes subestándar, esta forma se reconoce el requerimiento realizar una investigación aplicación basada Seguridad Basada Comportamiento (SBC) para análisis mejora del comportamiento colaborador, objetivo presente est...

In recent years, the growing total cost of ownership has resulted in a shift away from the distributed model of desktop computing toward a more centralized server-based computing (SBC) model. In SBC, all application logic is executed on the server while clients simply process the resulting screen updates sent from the server. To provide good performance, SBC systems employ various techniques to...