Software project offshoring is a rapidly growing trend. With this rapid growth, the software engineering research community is facing many challenges like cultural differences, linguistic problem etc because offshore software development is largely different from co-located software development OSD. This variance in software development nature has introduced many challenges. One of them is comm...

This Article explores the emerging positions that Protestants may have on new reproductive technologies (NRTs). Although there is no central teaching, there are main points of agreement among Protestants and other Christians regarding the morality of using reproductive technology. The author examines Protestant teachings on the meaning of procreation, the good of the resulting children and the ...

We examined the multivariate life-history trajectories of age 0 and age 1 female Gambusia affinis to determine relative effects of age-based and environment-based cues on reproductive investment. Age 0 females decreased reproductive investment prior to the onset of fall and winter months, while age 1 females increased reproductive investment as the summer progressed. The reproductive restraint ...

Cloud computing is a recent and significant development in the domain of network applications with a new information technology perspective. This study attempts to develop a hybrid model to predict motivators influencing the adoption of cloud computing services by information technology (IT) professionals. The research proposes a new model by extending the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with...

The purpose of this work is to investigate the impact participation in cross-organisational Communities Practice (CoPs) on higher education learners studying Design, and specifically ways which CoPs can affect their creative outcomes perceived epistemic cognition. are social groups that share common interests goals a particular field, interact build relevant knowledge expertise. Cross-organisat...

This study aims to figure out the kinds of illocutionary acts and furthermore function representative performed by inspirations American motivators in persuasive recordings English Speeches Youtube channel. research is a qualitative descriptive study. The subjects this examination are four videos from notable America YouTube In wake posting, choosing, gathering videos, were watched few times fa...

a simple but novel and applicable approach is proposed to solve the problem of smoothing effect of ordinary kriging estimate which is widely used in mining and earth sciences. it is based on transformation equation in which z scores are derived from ordinary kriging estimates and then rescaled by the standard deviation of sample data and the sample mean is added to the result. it bears the grea...