Our study investigates the role of infrastructures in shaping online news usage by contrasting use patterns of two social groups—millennials and boomers—that are specifically located in news infrastructures. Typically based on self-reported data, popular press and academics tend to highlight the generational gap in news usage and link it to divergence in values and preferences of the two age co...

Understanding the contextual factors affecting user experience is essential in designing and evaluating mobile systems for mobile work. The aim of this paper is to explore these contextual factors through three case studies: of safety observation at construction sites, passenger transportation with taxis, and mobile news journalism. For each case study we describe the nature of the mobile work ...

The world is increasingly equipped with high-capacity, interconnected, mobile and embedded computing devices. Context-awareness provides an attractive approach to personalize applications such that they better suit the user’s needs in this rich computing environment. Context-aware applications use context information, offered by context sources, to adapt their behavior to the situation at hand....

BACKGROUND The Ministry of Environment & Forests notified the Biomedical Waste (management & handling) Rules, 1998" (BMW Mgt) in July 1998. In accordance with the rules, every hospital generating BMW needs to set up requisite BMW treatment facilities on site or ensure requisite treatment of waste at common treatment facility. No untreated BMW shall be kept stored beyond a period of 48 hours. Th...

This document describes the complete specification of the architecture, services and protocols of the project CRUTIAL. The CRUTIAL Architecture intends to reply to a grand challenge of computer science and control engineering: how to achieve resilience of critical information infrastructures (CII), in particular in the electrical sector. In general lines, the document starts by presenting the m...

Technology is an infrastructural enabler that ensures success of open innovation (OI) activities in modern enterprises. The Kenyan experience indicates the OI strategy for medium enterprises (MEs) hinges on endowment technological capabilities operation and management MEs. Notwithstanding, aggregate entrepreneurial orientation (EO) firms seems to be a determining factor connecting investment st...

In order to maintain market position, one of the critical issues facing companies is how they can improve their commitment management. In this paper, the concept of commitment management is used to understand how suppliers and customers create mutual commitments in business agreements, and how these commitments are fulfilled. In a number of empirical case studies, commitment management problems...

This paper introduces a specific architecture including an infrastructural IP for functional verification and diagnostics, which is suitable for functional core-based testing of an MPEG4 SoC. Our advanced MPEG4 SoC results in a high complexity SoC with limited physical access to many different functional cores. The proposed test method provides direct monitoring and control for each core, which...

In this article some questions of testing of infrastructural Grid software on the standard compliance are discussed. Nowadays Grid-systems are one of the first-priority areas in computer science. The primary task is an effective usage of their advantages that is inseparably connected with the problem of software portability in Grid-systems. One of the simplest solutions of such problem is a dev...

The impact and significance of infrastructure development towards the economic growth of a country cannot be overemphasised. This is because it is a major component that is required to ensure an increase in domestic productivity and attract foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow. This study through the use of Ordinary Least Squares and Granger Causality econometric techniques investiages the in...