Research works on TAM, TAM2, TAM3 and UTAUT has always focused on cognitive aspect of technology acceptance in the past two decades. Acceptance of technologies such as eCommerce, Mobile and ERP that considered emotion and affect are still less. This creates a gap in the technology acceptance research, which consider the role of affect into technology acceptance model. This study considers the role of affect of a knowledge worker that work in Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)-status organizations in Malaysia on their behavioural intention to use knowledge sharing tools (KS tools) in their day-to-day tasks. Hence, Affective Technology Acceptance (A.T.A) model has been proposed. The behavioural intention on the acceptance of KS tools will be hypothesize in the Affective Technology Acceptance (A.T.A) model. Positive (PA) and Negative (NA) affect as the role of affect construct were introduce in this model to investigate its influence on KS tools usefulness and ease of use among employees in Multimedia Super Corridor organizations. The findings of this study highlighted that NA has no impact on perceive usefulness. The findings also showed that PA has very significant positive influence on PU, PEOU and BI with impact on PEOU being the greatest.

The purpose of this study was to validate the applicability of our proposed disease-specific questionnaire to Cantonese coronary heart disease (CHD) patients. During the investigation from August 2010 to March 2012, 1000 Cantonese inpatients were recruited. The reliability of the scale was judged by the internal consistency, and the content and construct validity were assessed by using Pearson correlation and confirmatory factor analysis, respectively. Results showed that the Cronbach's α coefficient for the whole scale and most domains/facets were larger than .70 (.59 to .93). Most items had moderate to strong Pearson correlations with their respective facets (r > 0.50). Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the indices for goodness of fit were nearly acceptable. Overall, the QLICD-CHD scale has adequate psychometric properties when applied to Cantonese CHD patients.

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Background Impaired microcirculation in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients manifests inadequate recovery and adverse clinical outcome. Here, we analyzed correlations between peripheral microcirculation and heart function in ACS patients. Methods Opisthenar microvessel area (OMA) were measured with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), cardiac functional indexes (echocardiograph) were assessed 48–72 h after therapeutic interventions. Results Results showed that OMA normalized with heart rate (OMA‐HR) were significantly greater in ACS patients with percutaneous intervention (ACS‐PCI, n = 25, stenosis >80%) compared to those with pharmacological intervention (ACS‐PI, n = 23, stenosis <50%, p = .02). Ejection fraction (EF) and fractional shortening (FS), which were not different between two groups, showed negative correlations with OMA‐HR in ACS‐PCI (EF: r = −0.512, p = .009; FS: r = −0.594, p = .002). Cardiac output (CO) inversely correlated with OMA‐HR in both groups (r = −0.697, p < .0001; r = −0.527, p = .01). Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) on admission was greater in ACS‐PCI group. NLR, which was negatively associated with EF or FS, was positively associated with OMA‐HR in all patients. The area under the curve (AUC) for OMA‐HR was 0.683 (specificity 0.696 and sensitivity 0.72, p = .02). OMA‐HR at >376.5 μm2 predicts reduced FS and CO (p = .002, p = .005, respectively). Summary OMA‐HR predicts inadequate recovery of the heart in severe ACS patients post‐PCI.