E-skills are a central aspect of European policies to boost competitiveness, productivity and employability of the workforce. Europe needs to ensure that the knowledge, skills, compe- tences and inventiveness including but not limited to IT…
Papers in Computer and Information Science
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A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey of older Americans found that as the Internet becomes an increasingly important resource for informing decisions about health and health care options, less than a third (31%) of seniors (age 65 and older)…
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Neste artigo faz-se uma contextualização tecnológica da Internet e descrevem-se sucintamente os seus serviços principais no âmbito do e-learning bem como as tecnologias de metadados utilizadas para descrever conteúdos pesquisáveis através da…
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Modern enterprises must manage uncertain data for purposes of risk assessment and decisionmaking under uncertainty. The Monte Carlo approach embodied in the MCDB system of Jampani et al. is well suited for such a task. MCDB can support industrial…
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Purpose At the English local authority level, there has been significant investment in e-government infrastructure (e-channels) in the last five years, but take-up of these e-channels is low. This paper aims to look at e-citizen, a 3 million project…
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"Horchata" is a vegetable milk obtained from tiger nuts. The solid waste from horchata production was analyzed for physicochemical and microbial properties, aiming to determine its potential use as a fiber source for the food industry. The solid…
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The article is an editorial that discusses authorship trends in "MIS Quarterly" publications during the years 2000-2010. The periodical's editorial policies on authorship and the perspective of the information-systems community on authorship in…
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The article presents a guide for the use of structural equation modeling (SEM) methods in scholarly writing. The author discusses the advantages of SEM, then describes how to choose an SEM technique. Several selection criteria are covered including…
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The article discusses various reports published within the issue on information systems in developing countries.
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The author focuses on the hallmarks he expects of his tenure as editor-in-chief of "MIS Quarterly." He states that the journal ranks consistently as the first or second ranked journal in the Information Systems (IS) field. He comments on the…
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Presently, 50% of the human population relies on nitrogen (N) fertilizer for food production. The world today uses around 83 million metric tons of N, which is about a 100fold increase over the last 100 years. About 60% of global N fertilizer is…
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In this chapter I examine the accessibility of today's games, or rather the lack of. Even common medical conditions such as arthritis, repetitive stress injuries, and diminished vision may prevent individuals from playing today's top software…
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The focus of this paper is on the use of e-technologies to enable higher education to better assess aspects of learning that have proved difficult to assess using more conventional means. Higher education describes the knowledge and abilities it…
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In the absence of strong government policies, the IEA projects that the worldwide use of oil in transport will nearly double between 2000 and 2030, leading to a similar increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Biofuels, such as ethanol, biodiesel, and…
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Decreasing size and power requirements of wearable micro electronics make it possible to replace batteries with systems that capture energy from the user's environment. Unobtrusive devices developed at the MIT Media Lab scavenge electricity from the…
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3GPP LTE-Advanced has recently been investigating heterogeneous network (HetNet) deployments as a cost effective way to deal with the unrelenting traffic demand. HetNets consist of a mix of macrocells, remote radio heads, and low-power nodes such as…
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This research uses theories of flow, telepresence, positive emotions, and brand equity to examine the effect of using two-dimensional versus three-dimensional virtual world environments on telepresence, enjoyment, brand equity, and behavioral…
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This technique guide, Enterprise Value: Governance of IT Investments, The Business Case, discusses the eight steps of developing an effective business case (covering building the fact sheet, cash flow overview from a life cycle perspective,…
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Opportunistic mobile ad hoc networks consist of human-carried mobile devices that communicate with each other in a store-carry-forward fashion, without any in- frastructure. They present distinct challenges compared to classical networks, such as…
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