Smartphones are innovations that currently provide immense benefits and convenience to users in society. However, not all the users of society are accepting and using smart phones, more specifically, for this research study older adults (50+) are a demographic group displaying such an attitude. Currently, there is minimal knowledge of the reasons that older adults adopt and use smartphones. Bea...

Prior research has characterized the adoption of process standards as a multi-stage effort ranging from the initial implementation through institutionalization. However, relationships between these adoption stages have not been examined significantly. In this study the author analyzes performance data from a large service provider that has implemented a process standardization framework for ser...

I n the preceding article, I proposed live delinitions of strategy -as a plan, ploy, pattern, position, and perspective. Drawing on these, I wish to investigate here the question of why organizations really do need strategies. In discussing some of the conventional reasons as well as other ones-to set direction, focus effort, define the organization, provide consistency-I will consider how thes...

A wide variety of applications, including traditional data transfer and adaptive real-time multimedia, can potentially use the ATM available bit rate service. While these applications all share the ability to adapt their rate, they otherwise may have very different characteristics. The goal of this paper is to examine routing algorithms in the context of two different classes of best-effort app...

The IT landscape in German hospitals is characterized by great heterogeneity. While IT-systems directly supporting medical diagnosis generally show high adoption rates, acceptance of process supporting systems, such as systems supporting the documentation processes, is often not as originally envisioned when the system was implemented. This research analyzes physicians’ perceptions towards adop...

one of the most important aspects of software project management is the estimation of cost and time required for running information system. therefore, software managers try to carry estimation based on behavior, properties, and project restrictions. software cost estimation refers to the process of development requirement prediction of software system. various kinds of effort estimation patter...

this paper aims at comparing tax effort in iran with that of 14 developing countries including jordan, algeria, malaysia, congo, nicaragua, india, sri lanka, paraguay, tunisia, peru, venezuela, philippine, and south africa. a tax ratio model is developed for this purpose. seemingly unrelated regression (sur) method and panel data for 1994-2002 periods are utilized to estimate the model. the res...

of the semantic features of the stimulus, a binary decision, and response selection. Name-Match RT is significantly longer than Physical-Match RT. Significant differences have also been found between subjects of high and low verbal ability, and RT in a modified version of the Posner paradigm has been found to significantly correlate (negatively) with intelligence. Inspection Time. Although rese...