This paper reports on research to develop an emergent model for citizen-centred local eDemocracy. It exposes local democracy as a flawed and failing ideal, where the emergent reality is one of significant frustration on the part of community activists who often feel unheard and where progress is slow and hard-fought. Despite legislation requiring effective consultation, local government intrins...

with successive pregnancies. In part, however, the reduction is artifactual, because some losses occur before 28 weeks and are therefore registered as abortions and not as perinatal deaths. The reduction in the overall incidence of rhesus disease has meant that experience among obstetricians, paediatricians, general practitioners, and midwives is generally low necessitating the development of e...

We study whether the meteoric rise of boutique advisors in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is justified by their buy-side performance. find that acquiring firms represented generate superior short- long-run abnormal returns over those employing full-service advisors. This effect mainly prominent private deals, interindustry mergers, deals involving inexperienced acquirers, where valuation uncer...

There is increasing pressure on developers to produce usable systems, which requires the use of appropriate methods to support user centred design during development. There is currently no consistent advice on which methods are appropriate in which circumstances, so the selection of methods relies on individual experience and expertise. Considerable effort is required to collate information fro...

The post An arts co-ordinator was appointed to Basingstoke and North Hampshire Health Authority about 3 years ago, initially on a part time and temporary basis. The original brief was to 'commission art for the hospitals' in order to 'brighten things up'. Later advice was sought concerning the colour schemes of several 'routine' painting jobs around the psychiatric hospital, as it became increa...

This paper explores how the ideal birth was constructed after World War Two, noting in particular the abstract enthusiasm on the part of physicians and government advocates for technological innovation accompanied by simultaneous silence regarding the specificities of labour and delivery in advice literature. The relationship of prescriptive mothering to the nascent medical ideology of preventi...

Providing helpful analysis of cognitive process is one of the main concerns for user modeling and adaptive hypermedia conception. In this paper, a work is presented that looks very closely to the Human Computer Interactions and exploits these interactions to help novice computer users. We think that all the cognitive actions involved in a task resolution reflect the level of expertise that the ...

Buyers frequently delegate purchase decisions to sellers who are better informed about supply options and the cost of service. This paper analyzes how buyers optimally contract with sellers who vary in their expertise at prescribing service. We show that the most expert suppliers offer the greatest variation in advice. Buyers benefit from dealing with experts provided they contract sequentially...

introduction: a growing number of muslim athletes now engage in international competition. this raises the question of the advice they should be given if a major event occurs during the month of ramadan. methods: a narrative review has been based upon books and extensive reviews completed by the author and other investigators. results: practical considerations hamper assessment of the effects o...