The importance of significant properties has been highlighted by a number of notable digital preservation initiatives in recent years. These include a range of projects funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the European Union, in which work has been undertaken to investigate the factors affecting decisions on significant properties, to establish generic models for determi...

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the R&D&I Linguistic Assistance Office, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), for granting financial support for the linguistic revision of this paper. This work has been partially funded by the European project MASMICRO (Project number 500095-2), by the projects FEDER-CICYT with reference, DPI2005-08732-C02-02 and DPI2006-15320-C03-01, of the Mini...

In recent years, image-processing solutions have been to automatically detect incidents and make measurements on video images from CCTV cameras, relieving the staff in control rooms of much of the difficulty in finding out where events that require attention are occurring. In this paper we illustrate some of the results obtained with on-site experiments carried out as part of projects funded by...

Purinergic signaling in bone was first proposed in the early 1990s with the observation that extracellular ATP could modulate events crucial to the normal functioning of bone cells. Since then the expression of nearly all the P2Y and P2X receptors by osteoblasts and osteoclasts has been reported, mediating multiple processes including cell proliferation, differentiation, function, and death. Th...

Providing formative feedback is a time-consuming activity for tutors. In the framework of the European funded projects TENCompetence and LTfLL ("Language Technologies for Lifelong Learning") we are currently exploring several methods to provide formative feedback using a comparison between expert semantic networks, based on course materials and tutor notes, and networks generated from student t...

Although the research field of Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) has existed for almost a decade now, it is surprising that only few studies to date have been concerned with analysing its current status and its future prospects. This paper reports on the results of an empirical analysis undertaken on more than two hundred research projects in Knowledge and Information Management, curre...

Professor Michael Bevan is at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, where he is Head of the Cell and Developmental Biology Department. He was the co-ordinator of the European Union Arabidopsis Genome Sequencing Consortium, which contributed to the sequence and analysis of the complete Arabidopsis genome that was published late last year. He is the co-ordinator of the EC funded EXOTIC program and ...

This paper describes the results from a scenario workshop within the Smart-Its projects funded by the European Union. The aim of the workshop was to identify feasible application areas for Smart-Its, small computational units that can be attached to everyday objects and through collaboration in ad hoc networks provide useful functionality. The paper describes the scenarios and the method used t...

Abstract This paper provides an examination of inter-organizational collaboration in the UK research system. Data are collected on organizational projects funded by four key councils: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic Social Engineering Physical Sciences Biotechnology Biological Council. The partnerships include both academic nonacademic institutions. A network is created for each ...