While the installation and removal of epigenetic post-translational modifications or ‘marks’ on both DNA and histone proteins are the tangible outcome of enzymatically catalyzed processes, the role of the epigenetic reader proteins looks, at first, less obvious. As they do not catalyze a chemical transformation or process as such, their role is not enzymatic. However, this does not preclude the...

AbstractThere are so many studies on the company's market value. However, most do not verify macroeconomic effect certain industries. Research as moderators in increasing value is still limited also. Therefore, macroeconomics (interest rates) presented this study a moderator to examine of company growth (increased sales) and financial performance (ROA) company’s (PBV). It expected provide addit...

Occupational health research depends on the cooperation and participation of employers. The authors describe employers' reasons for non-participation in a prospective study examining risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and the usefulness of preplacement, post-offer nerve conduction screening. Companies were contacted to solicit participation. Non-participation explanations were review...

Our study examines the knowledge sharing at a global polymer manufacturing company during its post merger integration period. Drawing on the two opposing views on knowledge in organizations—knowledge-as-object and knowledge-as-relationship—and growing recognition in the literature that deliberate and formalized knowledge sharing approaches may not exactly mirror what is going on in the organiza...

The research project examines expectations as well as organizational and technological cognitive beliefs influencing a company’s intention to continue using on-demand enterprise systems in the post-acceptance phase. Expectation-confirmation theory from behavior literature is integrated with Delone & McLean’s model of IS success to theorize a model of IS continuance on company level. The decisio...

This paper presents a context-aware mobile shopping recommender system. A critique-based baseline recommender system is enhanced by the integration of context conditions like weather, time, temperature and the user’s company. These context conditions are embedded into the recommendation algorithm via preand post-filtering. A nearest neighbor algorithm, using the concept of an average selection ...

This paper discusses a methodology to measure the usability of machine translated content by end users, comparing lightly post-edited content with raw output and with the usability of source language content. The content selected consists of Online Help articles from a software company for a spreadsheet application, translated from English into German. Three groups of five users each used eithe...

Numerous studies in the Information Systems (IS) domain explain what determines user adoption of collaborative information technology (IT) in the workplace. Few, however, explain what the influences of collaborative IT adoption on behaviors are over time. Partly based on DeLone and McLean (2003), this paper fills this knowledge gap by formulating and testing a model positing that IT adoption (s...

This paper views operating synergies as real options that acquiring companies have in the post-acquisition M&A process. The paper builds on the synergistic restructuring theory, which states that both acquisitions and divestitures are wealth-creating activities. Acquisition synergies are broadly defined as arising both from resource redeployments between the acquirer and the acquisition target ...

A 26-year-old female chemist formulated polymers and coatings usually using silver ink particles. When she later began working with nickel nanoparticle powder weighed out and handled on a lab bench with no protective measures, she developed throat irritation, nasal congestion, "post nasal drip," facial flushing, and new skin reactions to her earrings and belt buckle which were temporally relate...