The concept of collaborative work is gaining rapid acceptance in almost all disciplines of numerous organizations in the world like financial institutions, educational institutions, and business organizations (Ancona, 1990; Bettenhausen , 1991; Gallucci, 1985). Switzer and Shriner (2000) were of the view that students are the most obvious party who benefit from collaborative group work among st...

According to the Montevideo Convention of 1993, requirements for founding a state are fulfilled possession people, region, government, capability relate other states, and recognition sovereignty from making it still debatable whether ISIS can be considered or belligerent organization. Islamic State Iraq Syria claim that they possess but in reality, cannot make diplomatic relations with states. ...

To maximise power density practical gas turbine combustion systems have several injectors which can lead to complex interactions between flames. However, our knowledge about the effect of flame-flame on flame response, essential element predict stability a combustor, is still limited. The present study investigates hydrogen enrichment, interaction, confinement, and asymmetries linear non-linear...

In this paper, a new multichannel modified filtered-x (MFX) recursive least square (RLS) algorithm for active noise control (ANC) based on leading element dichotomous co-ordinate descent (LEDCD) iterations is proposed. It is shown that the proposed algorithm has less than half of the complexity of MFX fast transversal filter (FTF) algorithm with good performance for ideal plant models and impro...

Meeting satisfaction is an important construct to the field of research on group support systems (GSS). This is because unless the use of GSS technology produces an increase in meeting satisfaction, it is unlikely that users will seek to adopt the technology, regardless of any productivity gains that might be realized. If the underlying causes of meeting satisfaction can be identified, then res...

BACKGROUND Randomized trials suggest that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) may be more effective than percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the survival advantage of RFA needs confirmation in daily practice. METHODS We conducted a population-based cohort study using the Taiwan Cancer Registry, National Health Insurance claim database an...

Although there has been some research done on collaborative face-to-face (FTF) and video-conferencing sessions involving architects, little is know about the effects these different mediums have on collaborative design in general and collaborative communication and design representation in particular. In this paper we argue that successful computer-mediated collaborative design (CMCD) does not ...

A monoclonal antibody, FTF 148, was prepared by hybridizing murine myelomal cells (NS-1) and spleen cells of BALB/c mice immunized with cultured cells derived from an adult T cell leukemia (ATL) patient (KUT-2 cells). This monoclonal antibody reacted with all of the human T cell leukemia virus I (HTLV-I)-infected cell lines tested but did not react with other T cell lines derived from acute lym...