The paper introduces new fiber and malleable materials, including piezoresistive fabric and conductive heat-shrink tubing, and shows techniques and examples of how they may be used for rapid prototyping and agile development of musical instrument controllers. New implementations of well-known designs are covered as well as enhancements of existing controllers. Finally, two new controllers are i...

The promised productivity improvements resulting from using application generators have been described by several authors. Some experiments have also been conducted, but they differ substantially in their research settings and conduct of the experiments. This paper examines these differences by collating the main factors affecting the results of the experiments into an overall framework. Previo...

The rapid development and diffusion of the information and communications technology (ICT) is the major driving force of the New Economy. While there is ample evidence to suggest that the ICT industry has contributed a great deal to the overall economic growth of the developed countries, its role in the developing countries is far from clear. The pressure of unemployment that may result from IC...

Treatment for bone deformities secondary to malunited fractures usually require corrective osteotomies, and high incidence of surgical failure rates have been reported. Inaccurate corrections and loss of reductions are among the most common causes, and these technical errors ought to be improved[l-2]. A new measuring fixator for humeral supracondylar corrective osteotomies in children was desig...

The U.S. brewing industry was at a low point in the 1980s. Since that time, more than 4,000 new breweries of varying scales and scopes have entered the market. Given the rapid expansion in this industry, which involves large capital costs, it is useful to consider the competitive nature of individual firms. Using a sample of New England breweries, this study identifies several firm and geograph...

We reexamine the RRd mass determination using both new and previously existing linear pulsation models. Our conclusion is that the weight of evidence remains strongly with the" canonical" values (0.55 M (:) for Oosterhoff I clusters and 0.65 M 0 for Oosterhoff II clusters), unless the Population II metal opacities turn out to be very high. Subject headings: stars: interiors stars: pulsation sta...

This paper attempts to recast the entrepreneur by synthesizing ideas from personal construct psychology and systems-based evolutionary economics. It retains an Austrian subjectivist emphasis but focuses on rapid product innovation rather than abitrage. Profit opportunities are mental constructs that link products and revenue streams. Entrepreneurs develop new products by forming novel connectio...

Flexible teams are a new type of organizational entity that will become even more prevalent in the future. We define the concept of a flexible team, present selected attributes of such teams (composite membership and roles, diverse disciplines and skills, rapid communication alignment, and rapid process alignment), address the impact of these attributes on different categories of tools, and dis...