Community source development has emerged as a new way of developing enterprise applications, leading to a unique type of open source development involving collaborative investment decisions by multiple institutional partners. A critical research question is what motivates partnering institutions...

Community-based open source, or “community sourceâ€, has emerged as an innovative approach to developing open-source enterprise application software (EAS). Unlike the conventional model of in-house development, community source creates a virtual software development community that pools...

The 1986 Tax Reform Act, by virtue of equalizing the marginal tax rates of dividend and capital gains income for the ordinary investor, is hypothesized to decrease the ex-day abnormal returns, and to reduce the incidence and effects of short-term trading. As predicted, ex-day abnormal returns...

We present the fabrication of large-scale two-dimensional periodic silicon nanoarrays using nanosphere lithography. The techniques start from a monolayer of self-assembled polystyrene (PS) spheres of 220 nm in diameter on water surface, which works as a mask to fabricate large-scale periodic...

Effects of Si3N4 passivation layer on the lattice strain of Al0.22Ga0.78N layer with the thickness of 100 nm has been studied by in situ X-ray diffraction by the temperature range of 25°C–550°C. Results show that the temperature dependence of the strain relaxations can be separated into...

Highly ordered crystalline and amorphous Si nanoarrays have been formed by using self-assembled monolayer of polystyrene nanospheres as a template followed by dry ion etching treatments. The template was removed by annealing at 8°C and pattern transfer process was revealed by atomic force...

Mechanical alloying (MA) has been utilized to synthesize many equilibrium and/or nonequilibrium phases. During the MA process, alloys are formed by the solid-state reaction. Solid solution has been obtained by MA, strain occurs due to the dissolution one component in the binary system. An...