Internet application in China has maintained a constant development tendency in the past decade. China is now one of the most populous countries in terms of internet user population. While offering enormous opportunities, the dramatic digitalization also brings about a series of challenges that demand urgent attention. Digital divide is one of the challenges that affect China as well as other c...

In the history of adoption research, subjective norm mostly remains as the unloved child, being significant in this analysis and not significant in that analysis. Already Davis et al. had to exclude subjective norm of the Technology Acceptance Model due to theoretical and measurement problems. Overall the results of subjective norm as an antecedent for behavioral intention in IS research are qu...

Categories are the most basic structures by which human beings understand, describe, and communicate phenomena and related information about the world (Lakoff, 1987). Geographers construct categories to conceptualize, define, interpret and communicate geographic phenomena, for instance, land cover, vegetation types, soil types, regions of economic growth, and many others. In general, categories...

This paper revisits the notion of context from an interaction design perspective. Since the emergence of the research fields of Computer supported cooperative work and Ubiquitous computing, the notion of context has been discussed from different theoretical approaches and in different research traditions. One of these approaches is Embodied Interaction. This theoretical approach has in particul...

The term personality comes from the Latin word persona, which means ‘mask’. This definition of personality implies that important aspects of a person remain concealed for some reason. Many answers exist to the question of personality. In fact, every theory of personality can be viewed as an attempt to define personality and these definitions differ markedly from one another. The psychoanalytic ...

This paper presents an integrated approach using multiple Gabor lters for the segmentation of multi-textured images. The approach includes both the design of the constituent Gabor lters and the design of the classiier and postprocessing. The classiier uses a mixture density to reduce localization error at texture boundaries, and the post-processing uses morphological operators to remove spuriou...

Rapid urbanization and industrialization, population growth and economic growth in developing countries make management of municipal solid waste more complex comparing with developed countries. Furthermore, the conventional municipal solid waste management approach often is reductionists, not tailored to handle complexity. Therefore, the need to a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach r...