IT capability is critical significant to build enterprise agility and promote organizational performance. However, IT capability is always treated as the causal factor already existing and there are few studies on how IT capability is developed. To address this research question, we choose M company, one of the largest fast growing entrepreneurial e-commerce enterprise in China, and conduct a s...

Text mining and machine learning methodologies have been applied to biomedicine and business domains for new relationship and knowledge discovery. Company annual reports (or 10K filings), as one of the most important mandatory information disclosures, have remained untapped by the text mining and machine learning community. Previous research indicates that the narrative disclosures in company a...

BACKGROUND Previous studies strongly support an association between unemployment and an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. AIMS To assess the impact of company closure on the mortality of redundant employees. METHODS The mortality of a cohort of male ex-employees of the Athens Bus Transportation Company Epixirisi Astikon Siginonion (EAS) was followed from September 1992 to October 1...

In-service education programs have provided the professional development level of companies' employers, in the high quality form. The applying of in-service education programs has been a key component of professional development process for staff agro-industry Company. The study is utilized experimental Solomon four group designs to determine the impact of in-service education programs on agro-...

Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular web service for paying people small rewards to do human computation tasks. Current uses of MTurk typically post independent parallel tasks. This research explores an alternative iterative paradigm, in which workers build on each other's work. We run a couple of experiments comparing the efficacy of this paradigm in two different problem domains...

Dr. Jyothi Thundimadathil is a Technical Marketing Associate at American Peptide Company Inc. He has more than 10 years of experience in peptide chemistry, previously serving as Chemistry Director and R&D Group Leader in peptide industry. After earning his PhD in Applied Chemistry from CUSAT (India) he worked as post-doctoral fellow at Ben Gurion University (Israel), IUPUI (USA) and Purdue Univ...

Moscow, Russia, January 03, 2012 YUVsoft Corp., a software R&D company, announced the release of its 2D to 3D Suite as a set of plugins for NUKE compositing software to complement the existing versions for the Adobe After Effects environment. The software accelerates and increases the quality of professional semiautomatic stereo 3D conversion performed by film post-production companies, VFX com...

∗ Associate Fellow AIAA; President, Innovative Technology Applications Company, Chesterfield, MO † Post Doctoral Researcher, presently residing in Argentina ‡ Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of Mathematics § Director of the Center for Research in Scientific Computation and University Professor and Drexel Professor of Mathematics ¶ Associate Professor of Mathematics and Associate Director of the Center ...

Research has been initiated to develop a cost model for an outsourcing company which is oriented toward the development and maintenance of management information systems for a large telecommunications company. A measurement process has been implemented to collect post-project data and to develop a cost model for estimation purposes. As an initial step, these data were analyzed using the SLIM me...