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About: University of Massachusetts Boston is a education organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 6541 authors who have published 12918 publications receiving 411731 citations. The organization is also known as: UMass Boston.
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TL;DR: Findings reveal that interviewees organized their experience, sought to persuade listeners, and conveyed information to analysts using "stories," "habitual," and "hypothetical" narratives, arguing that cClient narratives provide a pragmatic view of the information system, offering insight into the ways the system is actually used and the habitual practices of the work environment.
Abstract: This paper reports on a participant-observation study examining how clients use narratives to convey information during ERP requirements analysis interviews. Techniques drawn from narrative analysis are used to analyze the structure and content of different types of narratives clients tell during requirements analysis interviews. First, findings reveal that interviewees organized their experience, sought to persuade listeners, and conveyed information to analysts using "stories," "habitual," and "hypothetical" narratives. We argue that cClient narratives provide a pragmatic view of the information system, offering insight into the ways the system is actually used and the habitual practices of the work environment. Second, narratives function to signal the embeddedness of the information system in its larger organizational and social context.While analysts may be inclined to dismiss narratives as messy or asuncodeable data, we argue that the insights they provide merit attention. To the degree that narratives give insight into users' perspectives on organizational issues, they provide knowledge that is essential to any information systems project. This is especially true for ERP projects that, unlike other systems projects, seek to integrate processes spanning the entire organization. ERP projects typically require departments with very different priorities and vocabularies to radically rethink the organization and its habitual practices. Work habits, values, and dilemmas faced by users as recounted in narratives are likely to carry over after the legacy system has been removed. Hence, a sound grasp of these factors is surely advantageous for analysts in assessing the current and future environment of the organization. Future implications for research and practice are also discussed.
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TL;DR: There is little reason to doubt that the hybridization and subsequent introgression of teosinte genes into maize observed at these sites is changed from that which has occurred over the past three thousand years resulting in the tremendous diversity and pronounced hybrid vigor in maize.
Abstract: The recognition and subsequent detection of the importance of teosinte introgression in the racial diversity and heterotic gene architecture of maize has been one of the outstanding achievements of Paul C. Mangelsdorf’s investigations into the origin of maize. This paper documents three areas in Mexico and Guatemala where maize and teosinte hybridize and where there is a system by which native cultivators exploit the heterotic nature of maize to increase their harvest. There is little reason to doubt that the hybridization and subsequent introgression of teosinte genes into maize observed at these sites is changed from that which has occurred over the past three thousand years resulting in the tremendous diversity and pronounced hybrid vigor in maize.
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TL;DR: The three- component model of SF-36 scores in Japan is better than the two-component model, and it provides more useful PCS and MCS scores.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the infimum over all choices of an operator X of the norm of the operator matrix [ A C C X ], whose entries are operators on Hilbert spaces, is the minimum of the norms of the first row and of first column, and an explicit formula for a minimizing X is given in terms of A, B, C, and their adjoints.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that dmrt1 is dispensable for ovary development but necessary for testis development in zebrafish, and that d mrt1 promotes male development by transcriptionally regulating male and female genes as has been described in other animals.
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Derek R. Lovley | 168 | 582 | 95315 |
Wei Li | 158 | 1855 | 124748 |
Susan E. Hankinson | 151 | 789 | 88297 |
Roger J. Davis | 147 | 498 | 103478 |
Thomas P. Russell | 141 | 1012 | 80055 |
George Alverson | 140 | 1653 | 105074 |
Robert H. Brown | 136 | 1174 | 79247 |
C. Dallapiccola | 136 | 1717 | 101947 |
Paul T. Costa | 133 | 406 | 88454 |
Robert R. McCrae | 132 | 313 | 90960 |
David Julian McClements | 131 | 1137 | 71123 |
Mauro Giavalisco | 128 | 412 | 69967 |
Benjamin Brau | 128 | 971 | 72704 |
Douglas T. Golenbock | 123 | 317 | 61267 |
Zhifeng Ren | 122 | 695 | 71212 |