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The Role of Systems Support & Maintenance in Business Process Innovation
There are an abundance of studies on examining the pre-adoption use and impact of information technology on organizations. In recent years, post adoption studies that relate to technology usage after it has been adopted, have started to appear in various research outlets but its scope remains limited. A great majority of these studies examined the post adoption related issues from technical perspective. This paper is an attempt to draw more attention to post adoption stage from a management perspective, and to define and present an initial set of factors that are likely to be involved in achieving business process innovation at the post adoption stage. In this paper, we present and explain antecedents of business process innovation having its basis in innovation dynamics literature. In sum, academics and practitioner contributions and implications by this research is also highlighted
Information Systems Maintenance: A key driver of Business Process Innovation
This paper proposes a conceptual model to investigate the relationship between information systems maintenance and process innovation. A comprehensive review of information systems innovation and business process innovation literature is presented and proposed research model is discussed. The model highlights four innovation enabling factors of process innovation and its relationship with information systems maintenance. Research contribution and implications for practitioners and researchers are also highlighted
ANEVRISMES GEANTS DE L’ARTERE HYPOGASTRIQUE : DIFFICULTES DE PRISE EN CHARGE THERAPEUTIQUE
The isolated aneurysms of internal iliac artery are rare and present several difficulties of care. Their treatment is often difficult and contains relatively high rates of morbidity and mortality. The giant character complicates the methods of assessment and surgical dissection due in the complexity of the anatomical region and the modifications of marks engendered by the aneurismal mass. Bringing back us to two observations of giants’ aneurisms of the internal iliac artery discovered incidentally on an atypical symptomatology. Both patients were surgically handled with a good evolution. We evoke the variety of the aetiologies of these aneurysms and we discuss the difficulties of their surgical treatment.Les anévrismes isolés de l’artère iliaque interne sont rares et présentent plusieurs difficultés de prise en charge. Leur traitement est souvent difficile et comportent des taux de morbidité et de mortalité relativement élevés. Leur caractère géant complique les modalités de contrôle et de dissection chirurgicale du à la complexité de la région anatomique et les modifications des repères engendrées par la masse anévrismale. Nous rapportons deux observations d’anévrismes géants de l’artère iliaque interne découverts fortuitement sur une symptomatologie atypique. Les deux malades ont été traités chirurgicalement avec une bonne évolution. Nous évoquons la diversité des étiologies de ces anévrismes et nous discutons les difficultés de leur traitement chirurgical
Sources of CP Violation in the Two-Higgs Doublet Model
Assuming CP violation arises solely through the Higgs potential, we develop
the most general two-Higgs doublet model. There is no discrete symmetry that
distinguishes the two Higgs bosons. It is assumed that an approximate global
family symmetry sufficiently suppresses flavor-changing neutral scalar
interactions. In addition to a CKM phase, neutral boson mixing, and superweak
effects, there can be significant CP violation due to charged Higgs boson
exchange. The value of due to this last effect could be as
large as in the standard model.Comment: 8 pages, RevTex, (appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, (1994) 1762 ),
CMU-HEP94-1
Linear and nonlinear optical properties of trigonal borate crystals K7MIn2-xYbx(B5O10)3 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba; x=0…2) with isolated B5O10 units
Noncentrosymmetric borates K7MIn2−xYbx(B5O10)3 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba; x = 0…2) were synthesized by the solid state reaction and the crystals were successfully grown by the top seeded solution growth method using the K2O-B2O3-MF2 flux. According to Rietveld refinement, the crystal structure belongs to the noncentrosymmetric R32 space group. Also, the octahedrally coordinated In atoms are located at wide ranges ∼8 Å which may be promising for phosphor and laser applications. Samples with ytterbium show a characteristic emission band in the range of 950–1050 nm related to the 2F5/2 → 2F7/2 transition of Yb3+ ions that is commonly used for laser generation. IR, Raman and absorption spectra were obtained for the samples as well. The short cut edge of UV absorption, SHG intensity comparable with KDP and low concentration quenching of luminescence suggest that the K7MIn2−xYbx(B5O10)3 borates are promising self-frequency doubling materials
Zeroing In On the Top Quark, LSP and Scalar Higgs Masses
We estimate the top quark, lightest sparticle (LSP) and scalar higgs masses
within a supersymmetric grand unified framework in which and the electroweak symmetry is radiatively broken. The requirement
that the calculated quark mass lie close to its measured value, together
with the cosmological constraint , fixes the top quark
mass to be . The LSP (of bino purity
has mass . In the scalar
higgs sector the CP-odd scalar mass . With
, as suggested by the decay , we find and .Comment: 14 pages in plain LaTeX, BA-93-25, PRL-TH-93/
CP violating polarizations in semileptonic heavy meson decays
We study the -violating lepton transverse polarization () in
three body semileptonic heavy meson decays to pseudoscalar mesons and to vector
mesons. We calculate these polarizations in the heavy quark effective limit,
which simplifies the expressions considerably. After examining constraints from
conserving (including ) and violating
processes, we find that in decays, of the muon in multi-Higgs
doublet models can be of order , while of the can even
approach unity. In contrast, in decays is at most 1.5\%. We
discuss possibilities for detection of at current and future
factories. We also show that in decays to vector mesons, unlike in
decays to pseudoscalars, can get contributions from left-right models.
Unfortunately, in that case is proportional to - mixing,
and is thus small.Comment: 32pp plain LATEX, 3 figs (by EMAIL request), TRI-PP-94-1
Supersymmetric predictions for the inclusive decay
We study the penguin induced transition in the minimal N=1
supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model with radiative breaking of the
electroweak group. We include the effects of one-loop corrections to the Higgs
potential and scalar masses. We show that the present upper and lower
experimental limits on the inclusive decay sharply constrain the parameter
space of the model in a wide range of values. The implications of
the recently advocated relation for the bilinear SUSY soft breaking
parameter in grand unified theories are also analyzed.Comment: 23 pages + 12 figures (hardcopies available on request), LATEX, SISSA
40/94/E
decays in SUSY models without R-parity
Being strictly forbidden in the standard model, experimental detection of the
lepton flavor violating decays and would constitute an unmistakable indication of new physics. We
study these decays in supersymmetric models without R-parity and without lepton
number. In order to derive order of magnitude predictions for the branching
ratios, we assume a horizontal U(1) symmetry with horizontal charges chosen to
explain the magnitude of fermion masses and quark mixing angles. We find that
the branching ratios for decays with a pair in the final state are
not particularly suppressed with respect to the lepton flavor conserving
channels. In general in these models {\rm B}[b\to\mu^+\mu^-(X)]\lsim {\rm
B}[b(\bar b)\to\tau^+\mu^-(X)] \lsim {\rm B}[b\to\tau^+\tau^-(X)]. While in
some cases the rates for final states can be up to one order of
magnitude larger than the lepton flavor violating channel, due to better
efficiencies for muon detection and to the absence of standard model
contributions, decays into final states appear to be better suited to
reveal this kind of new physics.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX, 3 ps-figures (uses epsfig.sty) Minor typos
corrected, one normalization factor added to Eq. (3.11). To be published on
Phys. Rev.
A theory of -dissipative solvers for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux
We propose a general framework for the study of contractive semigroups
of solutions to conservation laws with discontinuous flux. Developing the ideas
of a number of preceding works we claim that the whole admissibility issue is
reduced to the selection of a family of "elementary solutions", which are
certain piecewise constant stationary weak solutions. We refer to such a family
as a "germ". It is well known that (CL) admits many different contractive
semigroups, some of which reflects different physical applications. We revisit
a number of the existing admissibility (or entropy) conditions and identify the
germs that underly these conditions. We devote specific attention to the
anishing viscosity" germ, which is a way to express the "-condition" of
Diehl. For any given germ, we formulate "germ-based" admissibility conditions
in the form of a trace condition on the flux discontinuity line (in the
spirit of Vol'pert) and in the form of a family of global entropy inequalities
(following Kruzhkov and Carrillo). We characterize those germs that lead to the
-contraction property for the associated admissible solutions. Our
approach offers a streamlined and unifying perspective on many of the known
entropy conditions, making it possible to recover earlier uniqueness results
under weaker conditions than before, and to provide new results for other less
studied problems. Several strategies for proving the existence of admissible
solutions are discussed, and existence results are given for fluxes satisfying
some additional conditions. These are based on convergence results either for
the vanishing viscosity method (with standard viscosity or with specific
viscosities "adapted" to the choice of a germ), or for specific germ-adapted
finite volume schemes
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