At the start of COVID-19 pandemic, as organizations across country had to shift their operations digital realm because social distancing restrictions, a common fear among nonprofits was that lack in-person, face-to-face contact would hamper organization's management. Nonprofits have been slow adopt kinds technologies they were now having rely on out necessity—especially virtual meeting platform...

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,...

Abstract Assume that a researcher uncovers major problem with how social media are currently used. What sort of challenges arise when they must subsequently decide whether or not to use create awareness about this problem? This situation routinely occurs as ethicists navigate choices regarding effect change and potentially remedy the problems uncover. In article, related new technologies what i...

–A significant collection of software assets are used in all high-tech organizations and software business. Today, the major concern is with the maintenance and reuse of software which can be further invested in such a manner that its value may increase with passage of time but not like accountability whose value diminishes with the time. It has been an issue of forceful debate and keen interes...

External knowledge integration (EKI) is the process by which organizations identify, acquire, and utilize knowledge from their environment. While there is a vast array of methods and tools (MTs) available to support this process, it seems that high-tech small and medium sized enterprises (HTSMEs) hardly use them. This study investigates a) whether this is correct for a variety of MTs, b) what i...

Culture and arts could be very much of hi-tech. Taiwan government has announced that e-learning as the featured policy of Taiwan since 2003. Almost all culture and arts e-learning programs designed by Council for Cultural Affairs and National Palace Museum. Both of them have started e-learning programs and developed a series of e-learning courses in multiple languages, moreover, they keep updat...

Both ‘actions’ and ‘interactions’ can be considered as micro-operations that can be aggregated from a systemic perspective. Whereas actions operate historically, interactions provide the events retrospectively with meaning. Luhmann’s sociology of communication systems adds to the approach of symbolic interactionism the question of what global dimensions of communication mean for local interacti...

Both ‘actions’ and ‘interactions’ can be considered as micro-operations that can be aggregated from a systemic perspective. Whereas actions operate historically, interactions provide the events retrospectively with meaning. Luhmann’s sociology of communication systems adds to the approach of symbolic interactionism the question of what global dimensions of communication mean for local interacti...