In executive information systems (EIS) design, where idiosyncratic users must often be considered, understanding users and their preferences is important. Since user interfaces are a highly visible EIS component, they are an important lever for their acceptance. To accommodate executives' growing range of user preferences, this article develops building blocks for the user-interface to make "up...

Next-generation high-intensity large acceptance fragment separators require a careful design due to the large high order aberrations induced by the large aperture superconducting magnets needed to collect rare isotopes obtained from a high energy primary heavy-ion beam hitting a target. In this paper we propose a fragment separator layout based on various symmetries that satisfies the baseline ...

briefly (Austin’s Speech Act Theory, which claims that language use can be equated with performing actions linguistically; and Grice’s Cooperative Principle and concomitant conversational maxims (cf. Reading 1.2), which espouse the view that language use involves rational inferential processes). Other concepts that are presupposed include the following. An Adjacency Pair (cf. Reading 1.1) is a ...

A study exploring the focus on usability in testing practices in software development teams in Iceland using the agile software process Scrum is described in this paper. A survey was conducted to describe how testing is conducted and to what extent testing techniques are used. The results show that unit, integration, system and acceptance testing are the most frequent testing techniques used, b...

Technology alone may not win user acceptance and subsequent marketability. The user experience, or how the user experiences the end product, is the key to acceptance. And that is where user interface design enters the design process. While product engineers focus on the technology, usability specialists focus on the user interface. For greatest efficiency and cost effectiveness, this working re...

This research paper presents the results of enterprise resource planning (ERP) learning (knowledge and skills) as well as acceptance of information technology (IT) and attitudes for students taking an ERP course who participated in an ERP simulation game. A combined total of more than 280 students over a six semester time horizon were surveyed regarding ERP knowledge and attitudes toward ERP an...

BACKGROUND The Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) was established to address epidemic meningitis as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa and, to that end, worked to develop a group A meningococcal conjugate vaccine, PsA-TT. METHODS Experiences in 4 clinical trial sites are described. Culturally sensitive collaborative strategies were adopted to manage acceptable communication methods, ...

The paper presents an overview of environmental issues that may be expected with nuclear desalination. The analysis of coupling nuclear power with desalination plants indicates that adverse marine impacts can be mitigated with alternative intake designs or cooling systems. The atmospheric impact of desalination may be greatly reduced through the coupling with nuclear power, while maximizing the...

We defend a set of acceptance rules that avoids the lottery paradox, that is closed under classical entailment, and that accepts uncertain propositions without ad hoc restrictions. We show that the rules we recommend provide a semantics that validates exactly Adams’ conditional logic and are exactly the rules that preserve a natural, logical structure over probabilistic credal states that we ca...

a project is any endeavor involving planned action, for example, developing a new product or constructing a dam. [ce1] major factors for a project to be successful are applying performance measurement and feedback tool. one such well-known performance measurement tool to control the project execution is earned value management (evm). evm uses the fundamental principle that trends in the past ca...