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The impact of national culture on e-government implementation: A comparison case study
Over the past decade there has been increasing interest in the IS research literature on the impact of cultural differences on the development and use of information and communications technologies (Ives & Jarvenpaa, 1991; Shore & Venkatachalam, 1995; Tractinsky & Jarvenpaa, 1995, Myers and Tan, 2002, Ali and Brooks, 2008). In this paper the authors explore the influence of national culture on eGov implementation. The authors have conducted a comparative case study in two different countries the UK as a developed country and Sari Lanka as a developing country. The research findings highlight the potential influence of cultural differences on eGov implementation
Prospects of inflation with perturbed throat geometry
We study brane inflation in a warped deformed conifold background that
includes general possible corrections to the throat geometry sourced by
coupling to the bulk of a compact Calabi-Yau space. We focus specifically, on
the perturbation by chiral operator of dimension 3/2 in the CFT. We find that
the effective potential in this case can give rise to required number of
e-foldings and the spectral index consistent with observation. The tensor
to scalar ratio of perturbations is generally very low in this scenario. The
COBE normalization, however, poses certain difficulties which can be
circumvented provided model parameters are properly fine tuned. We find the
numerical values of parameters which can give rise to enough inflation,
observationally consistent values of density perturbations, scalar to tensor
ratio of perturbations and the spectral index .Comment: 7 pages and nine figures; typos corrected, minor comments and
clarifications added, revised version to appear in PL
Spectral Singularities of Complex Scattering Potentials and Infinite Reflection and Transmission Coefficients at real Energies
Spectral singularities are spectral points that spoil the completeness of the
eigenfunctions of certain non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operators. We identify
spectral singularities of complex scattering potentials with the real energies
at which the reflection and transmission coefficients tend to infinity, i.e.,
they correspond to resonances having a zero width. We show that a wave guide
modeled using such a potential operates like a resonator at the frequencies of
spectral singularities. As a concrete example, we explore the spectral
singularities of an imaginary PT-symmetric barrier potential and demonstrate
the above resonance phenomenon for a certain electromagnetic wave guide.Comment: Published versio
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