Smartphones have become an important part of organizational IT infrastructures including benefits such as increased productivity as well as IT security risks. These risks are mainly related to unauthorized access to corporate data. Integrating smartphones in organizations regarding security involves a sequence of decisions, ranging from the integration approach (smartphones owned by employees o...

Project management information systems (PMIS) are an important building block of efficient and effective project management. They have changed considerably in the last decades, starting as mere scheduling applications and now serving as complex systems covering a wide range of project processes and addressing a multitude of stakeholders. Vendors of PMIS frequently claim that these systems yield...

This paper examines the role of expectation and satisfaction in influencing citizens’ intention to continue using electronic government services. In order to investigate the key factors that affect an individual’s use of Information and Communication Technology within the context of electronic government, a framework combining Social Cognitive Theory and Expectation-Confirmation Theory is used ...

The DeLone & McLean IS Success Model has become a standard for the specification and justification of the measurement of the dependent variable in information systems research. Attempts to apply and test the model have resulted in both confirmation and challenges. This paper reviews and analyzes over 150 articles which have referenced the model over the past eight years in order to examine what...

OBJECTIVE To analyze data from a large multicenter study to determine whether pregnancy and delivery rates decrease with repeated IVF-ET cycles. DESIGN Multicenter retrospective study. SETTING Participating centers from the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology. PATIENT(S) Fifty-four centers contributed 4,043 cycles of oocyte retrieval for uterine transfer. INTERVENTION(S) Oocyte ...

Modern security problems focus on sensibly allocating resources to decrease the magnitude of potential hazards, decrease the chances of adversary success given an attempt, or minimize loss following a successful attack. The focus of this paper is on developing a simple, yet analytically sound tool that facilitates rapid assessments of security system nonperformance in terms of probability of ad...

background and objective: different personality aspects including identity styles, self-efficacy, and cognitive abilities can play a certain role in successful learning result in high educational success. we assessed the value of identity styles, self-efficacy and metacognition beliefs for predicting the level of educational success in female high-school students. methods: in a cross-sectional ...