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To date there has been limited published work in the construction management and engineering literature that has provided empirical evidence to demonstrate that IT can improve organizational performance. Without an explicit understanding about how IT can be effectively used to improve organizational performance, its justification will remain to be weak for managers. To ensure the continuous inc...

Eichler integrals play an integral part in the modular parametrizations of elliptic curves. In her master’s thesis, Kodgis conjectures several dozen zeros of Eichler integrals for elliptic curves with conductor ≤ 179. In this paper we prove a general theorem which confirms many of these conjectured zeros. We also provide two ways to generate infinite families of elliptic curves with certain zer...

A robot-vision project is reported which incorporates several existing AI methods and some new results. The ambition of the project is a system which can economically complete various intelligent tasks within the scope of mi~and microcomputers. The tuned composition of the applied methods provides a new and powerful approach to Rand D engineering and workshop-operation.

Matrix has no value whereas a determinant has a value. An attempt is made to associate a value to a matrix, whose elements are integers. For that, a concept of “Height” is introduced in the matrices over Z. As soon as an integral value is associated with every matrix, an attempt is made to introduce odd, even and prime matrices etc. Then related number theoretical properties are proved.

The purpose of this study is the investigation of organizational behavior of the French communists in the May Movement in 1968. Particularly at the first part of the movement, a severe rivalry between the French Communist Party (PCF) and the radical student organizations occurred. Although both of them pursued the same political goals, they could not work out for a united front. Such a behavior...

Source retrieval is a part of a plagiarism discovery process, where only a selected set of candidate documents is retrieved from a large corpus of potential source documents and passed for detailed document comparison in order to highlight potential plagiarism. This paper describes a used methodology and the architecture of a source retrieval system, developed for PAN 2015 lab on uncovering pla...

The application of a new mean value theorem to the fractional parts of polynomials 1. Introduction. The new mean value estimates provided by recent advances in Waring's problem (see, in particular, [9, 10, 11, 14]) may plainly be applied to improve current estimates for αn k , the distance from αn

Becoming aware of conflicting information is an integral part of comprehending multiple documents on a scientific issue. We examined whether memory for conflicts and its application in an essay task could be enhanced by a combination of reading goals and text signals. Two highcoherence-orienting reading goals (reading to write a summary or an argumentation) were contrasted with a low coherence-...