E-learning, as an innovative and alternative way of distance learning, provides a strong challenge to the traditional learning with its unique advantage. The paper, for the diffusion of e-learning adoption in China, investigates people’s perceptions and attitudes toward adopting e-learning, and explores the factors affecting the e-learning adoption behavior from innovation adoption perspective....

Cloud computing is a new computational paradigm that offers an innovative business model for organizations to adopt IT without upfront investment. Despite the potential gains achieved from the cloud computing, the model security is still questionable which impacts the cloud model adoption. The security problem becomes more complicated under the cloud model as new dimensions have entered into th...

An innovative unimolecular, polypharmaceutical strategy using a well-balanced monomeric peptide triagonist targeting three metabolically-related hormone receptors (glucagon-like peptide-1, glucose-dependent insulinotropic poplypeptide and glucagon) appears the most effective pharmacological approach to reversing obesity and metabolic comorbidities in rodents and could open new perspective to ta...

Health systems research aims to understand the governance of health systems (i.e. how health systems function and perform and how their actors interact with each other). This can be achieved by applying innovative methodologies and concepts that are going to capture the complexity and dynamics of health systems when they are affected by shocks. The capacity of health systems to adapt to shocks ...

The representation of free variables is crucial for the efficiency of the implementation of various kinds of rewrite systems. We give an innovative, although very natural, representation of variables abstract enough to fit in many different frameworks and more satisfactory from an operational perspective than usual representations. This work also provides a generalisation of director strings fo...

In this article, we first describe our general inhibitory-control theory and, then, we describe how we have tested its specific hypotheses on reasoning with brain imaging techniques in adults and children. The innovative part of this perspective lies in its attempt to come up with a brain-based synthesis of Jean Piaget's theory on logical algorithms and Daniel Kahneman's theory on intuitive heu...

Some digital business models may be so innovative that they overwhelm existing regulatory mechanisms, both legislation and historical jurisprudence, and require extension to or modification of antitrust law. Regulatory policies that were developed in response to 19th or 20th century antitrust concerns dealt principally with economies of scale leading to monopoly power, and may not be well suite...