This article defines the origin of an internet-centered language assessment (ICLA), how ICLAs are different from the other traditional computer-oriented tests, and what uses and functions ICLAs have in different taxonomies of language testing. After a very short review of computer- oriented testing, ICLAs are defined and categorized in low-tech or high tech categories. Since low-tech tests are ...

Based on two sub-samples of SMEs: i) 135 high-tech SMEs; and ii) 330 non high-tech SMEs, using panel data models and the two-step estimation method, this study investigates if the capital structure decisions of high-tech SME and non high-tech SMEs are closer to what is predicted by Pecking Order Theory, or if they are closer to what is predicted by Trade-Off Theory. The results suggest that the...

Randolph H. Wynne, Ralph Amateis, Christine Blinn, John McGee, Phil Radtke, Rupesh Shrestha, Valerie Thomas, Jessica Walker Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, College of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech; Buck Kline, Virginia Department of Forestry; Gene Yagow, Biological Systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech; Paige Baldassaro, C...

Kacie C.A. Blackman, PhD, Jamie Zoellner, PhD, RD, D. Scott McCrickard, PhD, Judith Harlow, MS, Woodrow W. Winchester III, PhD, Jennie L. Hill, PhD, Wen You, PhD, Paul A. Estabrooks, PhD Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Human Nutrition Foods, & Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; Fralin Tr...

S. Nikishin, B. Borisov, M. Pandikunta, R. Dahal, J. Y. Lin, H. X. Jiang, H. Harris, and M. Holtz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Nano Tech Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA Department of Physics and Nano Tech Center, Texas Tech University, Lubb...

PRACTICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY • OCTOBER 2014 Patrick Berg, BS; 4th year medical student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Mark Hall, BA; Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Richard W. McCallum, MD; Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Irene Sarosiek, MD; Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,...

Knowledge transfer (KT) is an evolutionary process that requires embedding into and assistance from organizational culture. Since the determinants and influence path of KT regarding cultural change are not clear, this study designs a path model from organizational culture to KT through organizational characteristics. The findings demonstrate that the sociability factors of organizational cultur...

A detailed survey of 498 “high tech” SMEs in the Netherlands shows process innovation by user firms to be common practice. Fifty four percent of these relatively small firms reported developing entirely novel process equipment or software for their own use and/or modifying these at significant private expense. Twenty five percent of the user innovations in our sample were transferred to commerc...