Determinants of the intention to use non-medical insertable digital devices: The case of Chile and Colombia

In the past, thinking of carrying electronic devices inside our bodies was only posed by non-real scenarios. The emergence of insertable devices has changed this. Since this technology is still in its initial development stages, few studies have investigated factors that influence its acceptance. This paper analyzes the predictors of the intention to use non-medical insertable devices in two Latin American contexts. We used partial least squares structural equation modeling to examine whether six constructs predicted intention to use insertable devices. A questionnaire was administered to undergraduate students located in Colombia and Chile (n = 672). We also examined whether these predictors influenced intention differently for both of them. Four common constructs significantly and positively influenced both Chilean and Colombian respondents to use insertable devices (hedonic motivation, habit, performance expectancy, and social influence). Also, the habit has a complementary mediating effect on the relationship between social influence and behavioral intention. By contrast, effort expectations were a positive and significant predictor, but only among Chilean respondents. Findings suggest that when technologies are emerging, well-known predictors of intention (e.g., performance and effort expectations) are less influential than predictors related to self-efficacy (e.g., habit and hedonic motivation). The use of insertable devices has a significant impact on society. Thus, a better understanding of what motivates their use has implications for both academia and industry.     

2020年电子电路技术热点

文章归纳了2020年电子电路产业一些技术热点,主要有5G电路板设计和基材,制造方面半加成法、3D打印、直接金属化孔电镀和垂直互连结构等技术,以及集成电路封装载板技术。     

CMP系统技术与市场

概述了CMP系统技术的发展历史、发展趋势以及在IC生产中的重要性,介绍了国外CMP设备主要制造厂家的设备型号和性能及CMP设备市场分布和需求,阐述了CMP系统技术的基础研究、关键技术和国内研究概况。     

回转头技术在表面贴装设备中的应用

当今的回转头式贴装设备能够以相对低廉的价格 ,提供高速度和准确的贴装 ,以及先进的识别操作。     

高压变频器在煤气加压机中的应用

2005年11月份邯郸钢铁厂8万煤气柜外送煤气加压机采用高压变频技术改造。其原因是该加压机外送量波动较大，采用普通阀门调节打回流，将会浪费大量电能，采用变频技术改造后，节能效果非常明显。     

Performance modeling and evaluation of data/voice services in wireless networks

Application-level performance is a key to the adoption and success of the CDMA 2000. To predict this performance in advance, a detailed end-to-end simulation model of a CDMA network is built to include application traffic characteristics, network architecture, network element details using the proposed simulation methodology. We assess the user-perceived application performance when a RAN and a CN adopt different transport architectures such as ATM and IP. To evaluate the user-perceived quality of voice service, we compare the end-to-end packet delay for different vocoder schemes such as G.711, G.726 (PCM), G.726 (ADPCM), and vocoder bypass scheme. By the simulation results, the vocoder bypass scenario shows 30% performance improvement over the others. We also compare the quality of voice service with and without DPS scheduling scheme. We know that DPS scheme keep the voice delay bound even if the service traffic is high. For data packet performance, HTTP v.1.1 shows better performance than that of HTTP v.1.0 due to the pipelining and TCP persistent connection. We may conclude that IP transport technology is better solution for higher FER environment since the packet overhead of IP is smaller than that of ATM for web browsing data traffic, while it shows opposite effect to the small size voice packet in RAN architecture. We show that the 3G-1X EV-DO system gives much better packet delay performance than 3G-1X RTT. The main conclusion is that end-to-end application-level performance is affected by various elements and layers of the network and thus it must be considered in all phases of the development process. Jae-Hyun Kim He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in computer science and engineering, from Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea, in 1991, 1993, and 1996 respectively. In 1996, he was with the Communication Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, as a Visiting Scholar. From April 1997 to October 1998, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the department of electrical engineering, University of California, Los Angeles. From November 1998 to February 2003, he worked as a member of technical staff in Performance Modeling and QoS management department, Bell laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ. He has been with the department of electrical engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea, as an assistant professor since 2003. His research interests include QoS issues and cross layer optimization for high-speed wireless communication. Dr. Kim was the recipient of the LGIC Thesis Prize and Samsung Human-Tech Thesis Prize in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a member of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS), Korea Institute of Telematics and Electronis (KITE), Korea Information Science Society (KISS), and IEEE. Hyun-Jin Lee received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ajou University, Suwon, Korea, in 2004, and is working toward the M.S. degree and Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering at Ajou University. He has been awarded Samsung Human-Tech Thesis Prize in 2004. His research interests QoS, especially network optimization and wireless packet scheduling. He is a member of the KICS. Sung-Min Oh received the B.S. and M. S. degrees in electrical engineering form Ajou University, Suwon, Korea, in 2004, and is working toward the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering at Ajou University. His research interests QoS performance analysis and 4G network. He is a member of the KICS. Sung-Hyun Cho received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from Hanyang University, Korea, in 1995, 1997, and 2001, respectively. From 2001 to 2005, he has been with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, where he has been engaged in the design and standardization of MAC and upper layers of B3G, IEEE 802.16e, and WiBro systems. He is currently a MAC part leader in the telecommunication R&D center of Samsung Electronics. His research interests include 4G air interface design, radio resource management, cross layer design, and handoff in wireless systems.     

几种新型的光电器件

描述用ＳＯＩ技术制造的光耦合ＭＯＳ继电器和多量子阱长波和红外探测器，以及集成异质结晶体管和激光二管于一体的高增益，高灵敏的光电子开关器件，文中着重介绍这些器件的结构，制造工和器件特性，并对其进行了讨论。     

发光二极管的研究现状与发展趋势

Ⅱ－Ⅵ族，Ⅲ－Ⅴ族化全物半导体是制作显示器件的重要材料，随着制作工艺日趋成熟，发光二极管已广泛地应用于 民经济各部门。要方要介绍了国内外发光二有管的研究两头和发展趋势。     

立体电视技术进展

电视技术的发展从根本上看就是不断地提高音频和视频质量的过程.电视伴音处理早就进入立体声时代,而且随着数字化技术的应用已进入到丽音时代,而图像的清晰度虽说有了大幅度提高,但仍停留在二维画面上.画面的立体化是电视技术的发展方向之一,文章详细介绍了立体电视及其技术进展.     

一种多输入队ATM交换结构

本文提出一种多输入排队ＡＴＭ交换结构和相应的输出冲突解决方法，它可以使交换网络避免输入队固有的排头阻塞，从而使网络在不增加运行速率的情况下，可达到输出排队的性能。文中介绍了冲突解决办法及其实现技术，说明它可方便地在高速网中实现。