Content information desired by Chinese users for effective use of information appliances

Many studies have been conducted to determine how to present information on mobile phones in such a way as to enhance usability, but those studies have not considered what information users need for effective decision making. To investigate what users want from mobile phones, we carried out a content preparation study. A questionnaire was constructed based on prior results from website content research, traditional usability studies on consumer electronics, and extensive study on various types of mobile phones; it was completed by 375 Chinese industrial participants. The statistical results revealed nine major factors of mobile phone content: information relating to input/search, functions, operation, multimedia functions, stored files, phone calls, help/service, accessory functions, and messages. Also, users of different ages and genders evidenced different requirements for mobile phone content, especially concerning accessory and multimedia functions. This study suggests guidelines for mobile phone designers targeted at the Chinese market and provides a base for content study of other information appliances.     

Checking determinism of XML Schema content models in optimal time

We consider the determinism checking of XML Schema content models, as required by the W3C Recommendation. We argue that currently applied solutions have flaws and make processors vulnerable to exponential resource needs by pathological schemas, and we help to eliminate this potential vulnerability of XML Schema based systems. XML Schema content models are essentially regular expressions extended with numeric occurrence indicators. A previously published polynomial-time solution to check the determinism of such expressions is improved to run in linear time, and the improved algorithm is implemented and evaluated experimentally. When compared to the corresponding method of a popular production-quality XML Schema processor, the new implementation runs orders of magnitude faster. Enhancing the solution to take further extensions of XML Schema into account without compromising its linear scalability is also discussed.     

Prevalence and personality correlates of Facebook bullying among university undergraduates

The purpose of the present study was to examine the prevalence of cyber-bullying through Facebook in a sample of 226 Greek university undergraduates, and to explore whether big five personality characteristics, narcissism, as well as attitudes toward Facebook, technological knowledge and skills were predictive of such behavior. Participants completed a self-report questionnaire measuring the above constructs. Results indicated that almost one third of the sample reported Facebook bullying engagement at least once during the past month, with male students reporting more frequent involvement than females. Bullying through Facebook was predicted by low Agreeableness and more time spent on Facebook only for males, whereas for females none of the studied variables predicted engagement in Facebook bullying. Findings are discussed in terms of prevention and intervention strategies.     

Computational analysis of Asp519 and Glu665 mutations of coagulation factor FVIIIa: Implications for enhanced binding affinity of A2-domain

The A2-domain of blood coagulation factor VIIIa is non-covalently bound to the A1 and A3 domains via weak intermolecular interactions. Functional instability due to rapid dissociation of A2-domain from the active FVIII in blood presents a major hurdle for the therapeutic applications of FVIIIa to treat Hemophilia-A. To identify the ideal hot-spot residues at the interface of A2 and A1/A3 domains that could enhance the structural stability of FVIIIa, we performed a comprehensive computational mutagenesis study of two A2-domain residues, Asp519 and Glu665, that interface the A1 and A3-domains. Each residue was mutated to 15 uncharged amino-acids and the mutant structures were refined by MD simulations. Based on the estimated relative binding affinities of mutant structures, we predict that the mutation of Asp519 to Leu, Gln, Thr, Val and the mutation of Glu665 to Val, Ile, Met, Asn and Trp enhance the A2-domain binding affinity by more than 20 kcal/mol, compared to the WT structure. We anticipate that these predictions will be valuable for enzymatic studies towards the rational design of FVIIIa synthetic constructs with improved A2-domain binding affinity.     

基于“两个细则”的一次调频影响因素分析与对策研究

并网机组的一次调频功能对于电网的稳定性来说至关重要。随着“两个细则”的发布,电网对一次调频功能的考核越来越严格。在此背景下,本文总结了影响一次调频的11个因素并给出了相应的解决措施,具有一定的借鉴意义。     

Impacts of essential elements of management on IT application maturity — A perspective from firms in China

This paper explores the impacts of essential elements of management on IT application maturity (ITAM). A game theoretical model is established to show that a firm's IT application maturity should match with its essential elements of management. In order to further validate the analytical result, a data set with 137 firms was collected via a survey instrument. Using reliability and factor analysis on the dataset, a four-dimension measurement construct of IT application maturity is proposed together with a three-dimension measurement construct of essential elements of management. Empirical analysis is then conducted to address research questions on the impacts of essential elements of management on IT application maturity. It is found that while a firm's strategic cooperation capability has no significant effect on IT application maturity, its internal coordination capability positively influences all four dimensions of IT application maturity. For the firm's execution capability, although it shows no significant effect on the overall IT application maturity, it does positively affect the technology and man-machine synergy dimensions of IT application maturity. The findings of this study offer practical guidance for organizations to better align their IT application maturity with essential elements of management.     

A factor combination approach to developing style guides for mobile phone user interface

This paper proposes a systematic approach to developing comprehensive guidelines for mobile phone user interface, and presents a case study to validate the approach. The approach applies a systematic combination of three critical factors: general usability principles, UI components and guideline properties to developing guidelines. In the case study, this factor combination approach was very effective in collecting experts’ ideas, creating guidelines and editing them. The resulting style guide can provide comprehensive and useful guidelines for designing mobile phone UI.

Relevance to Industry

UI designers can use the results of the study as a practical method to develop style guides for mobile phone UIs. The approach taken in the study will also be helpful in managing complex guideline information systematically.     

On the ambiguation of Polish notation

In this paper we study an alternative way of treating Polish notation. Instead of proving unique reading for a well-behaved set of terms, we interpret any string of the alphabet in a monoid that extends, in a specifiable sense, the given algebra of functions.     

文本相似度的计算

文本相似度的计算在数字图书馆系统里有着广泛的应用前景。该文采用余弦系数和向量空间模型计算文本的相似度,并给出了实现的方法。