Purpose – The paper aims to study the impact of cultural differences on the ownership structure of international joint ventures in China. It is reasoned that foreign investors, when faced with larger culture-related investment uncertainties, may have the incentive to acquire more control...

Purpose – In many cross-cultural management studies, culture and cultural differences across nations typically are assumed to be constant. The focus is on the impact of culture on other variables, such as the performance of multinational enterprises. However, is it possible that economic...

This paper analyzes the diffusion of internet-based distance education technology (NETDE) among the US associate colleges. The study finds that an institution with experience in using an earlier generation distance education technology is more likely to adopt NETDE than an institution without...

Information and communication technologies afford different levels and types of support for learning networks. We draw on our studies of video-conferenced classrooms, group discussion spaces, and online communities to suggest a framework for understanding how learning networks can benefit from...

Recently, inferring gene regulatory network from large-scale gene expression data has been considered as an important effort to understand the life system in whole. In this paper, for the purpose of getting further information about lung cancer, a gene regulatory network of lung cancer is...

The gene co-regulatory networks of normal and cancerous lung cells are constructed based on microarrays. In these networks, nodes represent genes and links represent co-regulatory relationships between genes. A comparison of these two networks indicates that they are significantly different in...