q-Newton binomial: from Euler to Gauss

A counter-intuitive result of Gauss (formulae (1.6), (1.7) below) is made less mysterious by virtue of being generalized through the introduction of an additional parameter

Regional Adoption of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce in China: Role of E-Readiness

Adoption of B2B e-commerce is a powerful driver of economic success in developed and developing countries. However, adoption rates in developing countries lag far behind. This paper draws on the Perceived eReadiness Model and research on the influence of inter-organizational relationships and economic-cultural contexts to explain the importance of three factors—inter-organizational power dependence, cooperativeness, and regional economic-cultural differences—for achieving higher levels of Internet-based Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in the developing country of China. We employ survey data to empirically test both the individual and joint influence of these factors. The findings suggest that beyond intra-organizational and external factors, managers and policy makers wanting to promote Internet-based EDI adoption in developing countries must also account for the inter-organizational relationships of firms and the economic and cultural circumstances of the regions in which they operate

Faceted lightweight ontologies

We concentrate on the use of ontologies for the categorization of objects, e.g., photos, books, web pages. Lightweight ontologies are ontologies with a tree structure where each node is associated a natural language label. Faceted lightweight ontologies are lightweight ontologies where the labels of nodes are organized according to certain predefined patterns which capture different aspects of meaning, i.e., facets. We introduce facets based on the Analytico-Synthetic approach, a well established methodology from Library Science which has been successfully used for decades for the classification of books. Faceted lightweight ontologies have a well defined structure and, as such, they are easier to create, to share among users, and they also provide more organized input to semantics based applications, such as semantic search and navigation. To appear in: "Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications", Alex Borgida, Vinay Chaudhri, Paolo Giorgini, Eric Yu (Eds.) LNCS 5600 Springer. - The original publication will be available at www.springerlink.co

Library development plan for Delhi state

53-58<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">[Makes a population- analysis of the Delhi State from the angle of library service. Recommends the use of the Social Education Centres for reading books to the 10 lakhs of illiterates. Estimates the ultimate library personality of the State to be made of one State Central Library as distribution centre, 16 service branches and 6 librachines. Recommends the establishment of one service branch and one librachine each year. Recommend, placing the development of the library system on a statutory basis.]</span