692 research outputs found
The influence of national culture on the attitude towards mobile recommender systems
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Copyright @ 2013 Elsevier B.V.This study aimed to identify factors that influence user attitudes towards mobile recommender systems and to examine how these factors interact with cultural values to affect attitudes towards this technology. Based on the theory of reasoned action, belief factors for mobile recommender systems are identified in three dimensions: functional, contextual, and social. Hypotheses explaining different impacts of cultural values on the factors affecting attitudes were also proposed. The research model was tested based on data collected in China, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. Findings indicate that functional and social factors have significant impacts on user attitudes towards mobile recommender systems. The relationships between belief factors and attitudes are moderated by two cultural values: collectivism and uncertainty avoidance. The theoretical and practical implications of applying theory of reasoned action and innovation diffusion theory to explain the adoption of new technologies in societies with different cultures are also discussed.National Research Foundation
of Korea Grant funded by the Korean governmen
Democracy and Militarization in Developing Countries: A Panel Vector Autoregressive Analysis
This study examines the dynamic relationship between democracy and the military in more than 40 developing countries from 1990 to 2017. We investigate the dynamic interaction between democracy and military institutions using a panel vector autoregressive model and impulse response functions as well as variance decomposition analyses. We show that democracy plays a significant role in the substitution of nonmilitary expenditures for defense expenditures. We also investigate the response of democracy to positive shocks in military and nonmilitary spending. We find that the responses of political system and different indexes of democracy including electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian democracy to positive shocks in military expenditures are negative and significant, whereas their responses to the shocks in nonmilitary expenditures are not significant. This result suggests that the political behavior of governments in developing countries is influenced more heavily by their spending on the military sector than by their spending on the nonmilitary sector
Revisiting and Induced Quasielastic Scattering from Nuclei in Sub-GeV Energy Region
We present the results of charged current quasielastic(CCQE) scattering cross
sections from free as well as bound nucleons like in , ,
and nuclear targets in 1 GeV
energy region.
The results are obtained using local Fermi gas model with and without RPA
effect.
The differences those may arise in the electron and muon production cross
sections due to the different lepton mass, uncertainties in the axial dipole
mass and pseudoscalar form factor, and due to the inclusion of second
class currents have been highlighted for neutrino/antineutrino induced
processes.Comment: Published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (NuInt-2015
Electromagnetic and Weak Nuclear Structure Functions in the Intermediate Region of
We have studied nuclear structure functions and
for electromagnetic and weak processes in the region of . The nuclear medium effects arising due to Fermi motion,
binding energy, nucleon correlations, mesonic contributions and shadowing
effects are taken into account using a many body field theoretical approach.
The calculations are performed in a local density approximation using a
relativistic nucleon spectral function. The results are compared with the
available experimental data. Implications of nuclear medium effects on the
validity of Callan-Gross relation are also discussed.Comment: Published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (NuInt-2015
Nucleon and nuclear structure functions with non-perturbative and higher order perturbative QCD effects
We have studied the nucleon structure functions ,
by including contributions due to the higher order perturbative QCD effect up
to NNLO and the non-perturbative effects due to the kinematical and dynamical
higher twist (HT) effects. The numerical results for are
obtained using Martin, Motylinski, Harland-Lang, Thorne (MMHT) 2014 NLO and
NNLO nucleon parton distribution functions (PDFs). The dynamical HT correction
has been included following the renormalon approach as well as the
phenomenological approach and the kinematical HT effect is incorporated using
the works of Schienbein et al. These nucleon structure functions have been used
as an input to calculate the nuclear structure functions .
In a nucleus, the nuclear corrections arise because of the Fermi motion,
binding energy, nucleon correlations, mesonic contribution, shadowing and
antishadowing effects. These nuclear corrections are taken into account in the
numerical calculations to obtain the nuclear structure functions , for the various nuclear targets like , , ,
, , and which are of experimental
interest.
The effect of isoscalarity correction for nonisoscalar nuclear targets has
also been studied.
The results for the are compared with nCTEQ nuclear
PDFs parameterization as well as with the experimental results from JLab, SLAC
and NMC in the kinematic region of for several nuclei.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1705.0990
Correlating photovoltaic properties of PTB7-Th:PC71BM blend to photophysics and microstructure as a function of thermal annealing
Selective optimisation of light harvesting materials and interface properties has brought breakthroughs in power conversion efficiency (11–12%) of organic photovoltaics (OPVs). However to translate this promising efficiency to economically viable applications, long term stability is a fundamental requirement. A number of degradation pathways, both extrinsic and intrinsic, reduce the long term stability of OPVs. Here, the photovoltaic properties of a highly efficient bulk heterojunction PTB7-Th:PC71BM blend were investigated as a function of ex situ thermal annealing. The changes in charge generation, separation, and transport due to thermal annealing were measured and related to changes in the microstructure and photovoltaic performance. A 30% drop in the power conversion efficiency of PTB7-Th:PC71BM blends upon thermal annealing at 150 °C was identified as mainly due to morphological instability induced by strong phase separation of donor and acceptor molecules of the blend films. Based on the insight gained from these investigations, enhanced thermal stability was demonstrated by replacing the PC71BM fullerene acceptor with a non-fullerene acceptor ITIC, for which power conversion efficiency dropped only by 9% upon thermal annealing at 150 °C
Nuclear effects on tau lepton polarization in charged current deep inelastic scattering
We have studied the tau-lepton polarization in the charged current
induced deep inelastic scattering (DIS) from the free
nucleon as well as off the nuclear targets that are being used in ongoing and
proposed experiments such as IceCube, DUNE, etc. For the free nucleon target,
the differential scattering cross sections are obtained by taking into account
the non-perturbative effect like target mass corrections (TMC) and the
perturbative effect like the evolution of the parton densities at the
next-to-leading order (NLO) in the four flavor scheme.
In the case of nucleons bound inside a nuclear target, we have incorporated the
nuclear medium effects such as Fermi motion, binding energy and nucleon
correlations, through the use of nucleon spectral function. We shall present
the results for the differential scattering cross sections and the longitudinal
and transverse components of the tau-lepton polarization assuming time reversal
invariance.Comment: 20 pages and 11 figure
Numerical Study of CNT Micro Fin Array for Cooling Application
Heat removing from a microelectronic chip packaging has grand effect on performance and durability of the chip. Today's microchips with high power densities would require efficient methods of cooling. Recently, vertical alignment CNTs, due to their superior thermal, electrical and mechanical properties, was suggested as an effective micro cooler on the level of modern electronics demands. In this paper, the cooling performance of the CNT fin structures is studied numerically. Flow of air was considered as the working fluid flow. CFD simulations have been carried out for a series of CNT micro-fin cooling architectures based on one and two dimensional fin array models. The modeling results indicate that fluid speed is the key factor in heat transfer capacity of the device. Also, the results of 2D carbon nanotube fin array model show more precise and greater thermal performance than that of 1D model. Finally, the examination of pressure drop between inlet and outlet of the cooling device is presented as an important factor which could limit the fluid speed and fin height effect on heat sink performance also investigated
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