Role of Key Stakeholders in Successful E-Governance Programs: Conceptual Framework

In recent years, a number of developing countries have launched e-government programs, and several development agencies and governments have identified e-government implementation as a key policy priority. Driven by the success of a few projects in improving delivery of services to citizens and businesses, an increasing number of governments are making ICT investments in the public sector. While there has been a lot of success in these endeavors, evidence of failed projects has drawn attention to the level of risk involved in implementation. The study on role of different stakeholders is important to understand the improvements which can be made on these critical success factors. Hence the objective of this paper is to (1) To understand the role of key stakeholders which influence the success of e-governance projects. (2) Come up with a framework considering role of all these key stakeholders. Through a conceptual analysis the we tried to examine the relationship and role among different stakeholders and how they contribute towards successful implementation of e-governance programs

Offshoring ERP Implementations: Critical Success Factors in Swiss Perspective

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are changing the way businesses are run. IT Offshoring is changing the way IT Organizations are run. However, both ERP implementations and IT offshoring are fraught with risks. When both ERP implementation and IT offshoring happen together, the risks get even more pronounced. The paper presents the critical susses factors of offshoring ERP implementation which are common in ERP as well as in offshoring case. The study is carried out with the sample interviews conducted in Switzerland. The findings revels that eight factor are critical while considering offshoring ERP implementation, namely customer interaction skills, business process skills, ERP package skills, scalability, language, project management, choice of work to be offshored, personnel split between onsite/offshore are. We used semi-structured open ended interviews with interpretive analysis for identifying the factors

Real or Fake Text?: Investigating Human Ability to Detect Boundaries Between Human-Written and Machine-Generated Text

As text generated by large language models proliferates, it becomes vital to understand how humans engage with such text, and whether or not they are able to detect when the text they are reading did not originate with a human writer. Prior work on human detection of generated text focuses on the case where an entire passage is either human-written or machine-generated. In this paper, we study a more realistic setting where text begins as human-written and transitions to being generated by state-of-the-art neural language models. We show that, while annotators often struggle at this task, there is substantial variance in annotator skill and that given proper incentives, annotators can improve at this task over time. Furthermore, we conduct a detailed comparison study and analyze how a variety of variables (model size, decoding strategy, fine-tuning, prompt genre, etc.) affect human detection performance. Finally, we collect error annotations from our participants and use them to show that certain textual genres influence models to make different types of errors and that certain sentence-level features correlate highly with annotator selection. We release the RoFT dataset: a collection of over 21,000 human annotations paired with error classifications to encourage future work in human detection and evaluation of generated text.Comment: AAAI 2023 Long Paper. Code is available at https://github.com/liamdugan/human-detectio

Dark sectors 2016 Workshop: community report

This report, based on the Dark Sectors workshop at SLAC in April 2016, summarizes the scientific importance of searches for dark sector dark matter and forces at masses beneath the weak-scale, the status of this broad international field, the important milestones motivating future exploration, and promising experimental opportunities to reach these milestones over the next 5-10 years

The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

The cerebral cortex underlies our complex cognitive capabilities, yet little is known about the specific genetic loci that influence human cortical structure. To identify genetic variants that affect cortical structure, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of brain magnetic resonance imaging data from 51,665 individuals. We analyzed the surface area and average thickness of the whole cortex and 34 regions with known functional specializations. We identified 199 significant loci and found significant enrichment for loci influencing total surface area within regulatory elements that are active during prenatal cortical development, supporting the radial unit hypothesis. Loci that affect regional surface area cluster near genes in Wnt signaling pathways, which influence progenitor expansion and areal identity. Variation in cortical structure is genetically correlated with cognitive function, Parkinson's disease, insomnia, depression, neuroticism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Critical success factors for offshoring of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations

Background: In recent years, offshoring enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation has been an emerging trend in the field of offshoring information technology (IT). However, both ERP implementations and IT offshoring are fraught with risks, and when both ERP implementation and IT offshoring happen together, the risks become even more pronounced. Therefore, it is important to understand and identify the issues of ERP implementation in an offshoring situation. Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key factors that enable successful offshoring ERP implementation from the client and the vendor perspective. Methods/Approach: The paper uses literature as a basis for identifying a critical success factor, data collected through semi-structured interviews with ERP managers at various levels of the subject organizations, and eventually their analysis. Results: The findings of the paper reveal that various factors are critical while implementing offshoring ERP. They include: offshoring partnership, project management, project team composition, people issues, communications and compliance of the onsite team composition. It is also noticed that ten factors are grouped into three categories: the client side, the vendor side, and both. Conclusions: Organizations are currently undertaking or considering the offshoring ERP implementation particularly from India. This paper will enable them to understand the possible challenges and areas of offshoring the ERP implementation program. The value and originality of the paper comes from the fact that up to now, ERP implementation in offshoring has not been comprehensively explored. This research provides a complete understanding of the critical success factors from the client, the vendor or both the client and the vendor perspective. It also enables researchers to analyse ili rethink ili review offshoring in different service areas

Finite Element Simulation of a Circumferential Through-Thickness Crack in a Cylinder

This paper presents the results of a structural integrity assessment of a large-scale test undertaken as part of the EU programme STYLE on a repair welded pipe containing a circumferential through-thickness crack. The pipe was manufactured from two Esshete 1250 stainless steel pipes joined by a girth weld containing a deep repair. A through-thickness circumferential pre-crack was introduced to the centre of the repair prior to testing in four-point bend. The assessment used a finite element model created in Abaqus, with the weld residual stress introduced by an iterative technique. Linear elastic fracture mechanics was used to evaluate the stress intensity factor KI for the defect and elastic-plastic analyses were performed to characterise the crack driving force J along the crack front. The predicted crack mouth opening displacement as a function of load was compared with the test results and the derived variation in J used to predict crack initiation and growth. The results predicted the global behaviour of the test to within approximately 7 % at final load, and the position of maximum crack growth. However, the final extent of crack extension is under-predicted. Reasons for this underprediction are suggested

Preserved hemostatic status in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Background & Aims: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with an increased risk of thrombosis. However, it remains unclear if hypercoagulability contributes to this risk. We, therefore, determined an in-depth hemostatic profile in a cohort of well-defined patients with NAFLD. Methods: We drew blood samples from 68 patients with biopsy proven NAFLD (simple steatosis n = 24, NASH n = 22, and NASH cirrhosis n = 22), 30 lean controls, 30 overweight controls (body mass index (BMI) >25 kg/m(2)), and 15 patients with alcoholic (ASH) cirrhosis, and performed in-depth hemostatic profiling. Results: Basal and agonist-induced platelet activation, plasma levels of markers of platelet activation, and plasma levels of the platelet adhesion regulators von Willebrand factor and ADAMTSI3 were comparable between patients with non cirrhotic NAFLD and controls. Agonist-induced platelet activation was decreased in patients with cirrhosis. Thrombomodulin-modified thrombin generation was comparable between all patients and controls, although patients with cirrhosis had a reduced anticoagulant response to thrombomodulin. Thromboelastography test results were comparable between controls and non-cirrhotic NAFLD patients, but revealed moderate hypocoagulability in cirrhosis. Plasma fibrinolytic potential was decreased in overweight controls and non-cirrhotic NAFLD, but accelerated fibrinolysis was observed in ASH cirrhosis. Clot permeability was decreased in overweight controls and patients with NAFLD. Conclusions: The overall hemostatic profile is comparable between patients with non-cirrhotic NAFLD and controls. Additionally, pro-thrombotic features (hypofibrinolysis and a pro thrombotic structure of fibrin clot) in patients with NAFLD are likely driven by obesity. Our study suggests a limited role for hyperactive hemostasis in the increased thrombotic risk in NAFLD. Lay summary: The combined results of this study show that the overall hemostatic status is comparable between healthy individuals and patients with a fatty liver disease. (C) 2016 European Association for the Study of the Liver. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved