People are presented with an increasing number of opportunities to communicate regardless of location as wireless network connectivity becomes more prevalent. Questions that arise are in what form this communication is and what challenges it poses? Can the experience of group communication be enhanced so that a feeling of actual presence can be conveyed? Can we enable participants to experience...

In this paper we will show the ideas that are the foundation for the Borderland architecture. We have looked at two views of how researchers are thinking about computers in the future, wearable computers and pervasive computing. Wearable computers is the view where the user is wearing a computer and by that augment the user’s view on his environment with additional digital information. Wearable...

Most of the international boundaries in Africa were delimited in the last quarter of the 19 century. The adoption of the “Uttis possedis” principle of boundary maintenance by African states in 1963 solidified the boundary regimes. The state-centric policies in border management result in further conflicts, wars and litigation depriving of cross-border cooperation. Though attempts at economic co...

The article traces the process of elaboration education policies in women’s Northwest Russian Empire by different agents imperial state on central and local levels 1830s–1860s. principal goal is not history a gendered perspective but rather female social roles national differences this troubling borderland. ethnic confessional markers difference analysis aimed at producing complex dynamic pictu...

Current evidence on the role of viruses in the causation of psychiatric illness is reviewed. Herpes simplex encephalitis is relatively well defined but a wider role for this virus, particularly in relation to affective disorders, is suggested by some Scandinavian surveys of antibody titres in psychiatric populations. The extent to which influenzal illnesses and infectious mononucleosis may lead...