Antonio R. Alvarez ’78, ’79 Cypress Semiconductor C. Dean Alford ’76 Allied Utility Network Michael B. Bartlett ’76 Michael J. Buckler ’71, ’71 Lucent Technologies Steve W. Chaddick ’74, ’82 Ciena Corporation Mel Coker ’87 BellSouth Michael A. Coleman ’82 H. Allen Ecker ’57, ’59 Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Kelvin C. Hawkins, Sr. ’92 IBM Leonard J. Haynes ’72 Southern Company Sherra E. Kerns Olin C...

From pre-trip planning through post-trip remembering, vacations unfold over long periods of time. Through the course of a trip the same travel information may be used repeatedly but with different levels of success and satisfaction. These experiential fluctuations over time were examined in a study of trip planners, who collected travel information from a chamber of commerce before leaving home...

The aim of this paper is to determine pillars for fostering nautical tourism based on the beliefs and attitudes that professionals in the sector have towards the particularities and difficulties that the market is going through. To achieve these goals, in-depth interviews structured around 37 questions were carried out with agents of associations and nautical firms, public institutions, and the...

PURPOSE The contour of the human cornea is closely modeled by a conic section, which is fully described by asphericity (Q) and apical radius of curvature (r(o)). The relationship between corneal shape and other ocular dimensions in children, including anterior and vitreous chamber depths, axial length, and spherical equivalent refractive error, was investigated. METHODS Corneal asphericity an...

PURPOSE To report the relationship between different optical ocular components and the influence of axial length on emmetropization. METHODS 109 young university students, divided into five groups, were enrolled in this study: emmetropes, hyperopes, low myopes, moderate myopes and high myopes. Intraocular parameters and topographic corneal analyses were performed by ultrasonography and videok...

Quarterly earnings guidance — managers’ public forecasts of forthcoming earnings — is widespread yet highly controversial. A recent position paper by the CFA Institute and the Business Roundtable emphatically calls on managers to ‘‘end the practice of providing quarterly earnings guidance’’ (CFA Institute 2006, 2). Similarly, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (2007) publicly implored managers to sto...

Developments in mobile communications and ubiquitous computing have heralded an era of ubiquitous commerce (ucommerce).This paper studies the concept of ubiquitous computing and its adaption to commerce with new issues associated. With the rapid advancement in field of networking and communications, no aspect of human life is untouched. Commercial activities are also affected by the new advance...