The new century will be marked by several dramatic changes that will leave their effect on knowledge, science and technology. One would be the shift of the centers of gravity of the world in economic and political terms away from its present Eurocentric moorings to Asia, a process that will occur amidst pervasive globalization. Another set of changes is in the science and technology field, prim...

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] TEXT ANALYTIC TOOLS FOR THE COGNITVE DIAGNOSIS OF STU...

Knowledge of Production technology and information communication technology covers many aspects of the knowledge process in firm. Digital Manufacturing is one of the core strategies of the European Manufacture vision and strategic agenda towards the knowledge based production. It is driven by the application and standardization of information and communication technologies and the increasing de...

In this paper, we describe the methodology used and the results obtained by us for completing the tasks given under the shared task on Consumer Health Information Search (CHIS) collocated with the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2016, ISI Kolkata. The shared task consists of two sub-tasks – (1) task1: given a query and a document/set of documents associated with that query, th...

Employee expectation of privacy within the workplace diminished as information technology use increased within the enterprise. During the same time period, increased use of information technology within the enterprise created a corresponding need for heightened information security. Technology use has continued to become increasingly ingrained within society as a whole to the point that the US ...

As it happened in all domains of human activities, economic issues and the increase of people working in scientific research have altered the way scientific production is evaluated so as the objectives of performing the evaluation. Introduced in 2005 by J. E. Hirsch as an indicator able to measure individual scientific output not only in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality, h index ...

Integrating information technology (IT) into medical settings is considered essential to transforming hospitals into 21st-century health care institutions. Yet the role of IT departments in maximizing the effectiveness of information systems is not well understood. This article reports a 3-round Delphi panel of Veterans Administration personnel experienced with provider order entry electronic s...

This paper presents the preliminary results of a study on the adoption of Inter-Organizational Systems in local retail enterprises in China. Our focus is on clarifying whether and to what extent differences, such as organizational culture and government regulatory play roles in the information technology adoption. Based on Tornatsky and Fleischer’s (1990) Technology-Organization-Environment fra...

A re-evaluation of previous technology integration cases suggests that there are some weak areas in the process of integration. A new developed 3-D information technology integration model provides new directions of technology integration, which emphasizes on merging Information and Technology into the framework of Instructional Design theories and models. Some examples of integration in comput...

1. Overview of the study 2. Focus on key concepts 3. Aim of the research 4. Why research study is important 5. Nature of a methodology 6. Initial stages of research 7. Research options 8. Bias in research 9. Case studies as research strategy 10. Different types of evidence on which a case study may be based 11. Bias in the case study 12. Significance of uniformity when recording data 13. Formal...