Over the past three decades substantial research has been dedicated to the task of providing theoretical models for group decision processes. Unfortunately, many models remain grounded in single-period decision contexts. The current work investigates an extremely basic process approach to multi-criteria multi-period group decision-making. The time-series model considered incorporates factors re...

This paper scrutinize image quality assessment emanate from discrete wavelet transform. Image quality assessment endeavor to procure visual quality metric dovetail deftly with human visual cognizance. Full reference IQA technique juxtaposes a reference and distorted image and prognosticate ocular quality. This technique schleps out by discerning contrariety between empirical score with image im...

The complex and dynamic nature of the IS discipline and field poses an ongoing challenge for IS educators in terms of both what and how they teach. Responses to the curriculum challenge are many and varied, resulting in a diversity of approaches through which IS academics and educators attempt to manage the tension between current industry demands and good academic practice, while taking cogniz...

Repurposive appropriation is a creative everyday act in which a user invents a novel use for information technology (IT) and adopts it.This study is the first to address its prevalence and predictability in the consumer IT context. In all, 2,379 respondents filled in an online questionnaire on creative uses of digital cameras, such as using them as scanners, periscopes, and storage media. The d...

Literature demonstrating the importance of social relationships for cancer survivorship is accumulating. Building on that literature, the term “Healing Ties” refers to the scientific and popular factors supporting the idea that relationships and community are essential for healing. However, difficulties arise in assessing the effect of social support for survivorship. The current paper reviews ...

This paper examines the role of the IT Services Provider (ITSP) in facilitating adoption of sustainable IT and IT management practices in client organizations Informed by resource dependency and inter-organizational knowledge transfer perspectives and based on primary data from five large ITSPs from India, it shows that ITSPs can influence adoption of IT sustainability in client organizations b...

Variation in the physical characteristics of the environment should impact the movement energetics of animals. Although cognizance of this may help interpret movement ecology, determination of the landscape-dependent energy expenditure of wild animals is problematic. We used accelerometers in animal-attached tags to derive energy expenditure in 54 free-living imperial cormorants Phalacrocorax a...

COMMON method of bioassay of gonad-stimulating preparations is A based on the gain in the ovary-weight of the immature female rat in relation to the amount of injected material. The large variability in the response of the ovaries of different rats of the same age to similar treatment is common knowledge of endocrinologists. The exact sources of this variability and their relative importance, h...

Two distinct views of the nature of clinical judgment are identified and contrasted. The dominant view that clinical judgment is a fully explicit process is compared to the relatively neglected view that tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in the clinician's mental operations. The tacit dimension of medical thinking is explored at length. The discussion suggests severe limits when applying...

Chlamydia trachomatis is recognized as the most prevalent sexually transmitted organism in many parts of the world. Most complications associated with chlamydial infection in women and their infants can be avoided by appropriate treatment. However, treatment is often not initiated because infections are frequently asymptomatic. The identification of at risk patients and treatment of these patie...