Phonetic convergence is highly variable across studies, measures, and analyses. The current paper describes a study that examined multiple acoustic measures in concert with a perceptual measure of phonetic convergence. The study employed a shadowing task in which multiple talkers shadowed words from a set of models. Across different scales of analysis, the acoustic measures were highly variable...

This paper is an edited version of the International Game Developers Association’s Game Preservation Special Interest Group’s recent white paper. The specific threats to preserving digital games are outlined, as is the importance of games as cultural objects. The current strategies for preservation across a range of stakeholders are presented followed by an argument for why preservation matters...

Green IT adoption is a plausible attempt for organizations to tackle the current environmental problem, and can also improve the economic performance of an organization. Therefore, organizational adoption of Green IT is beneficial to the society. Investigating how the decision maker in an organization would come to adopt Green IT is necessary to establish strategies in promoting organizational ...

................................................................................................ I ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.................................................................................... III LIST OF PUBLICATIONS..................................................................................V CONTENTS ....................................................................................

Contents List of figures and tables , ix About the authors xi Acknowledgements xiii List of acronyms , xv Introduction xvii

..........................................................................................................i CONTENTS..........................................................................................................v APPENDED PAPERS.........................................................................................ix ACRONYMS.............................................................

Activity in the housing sector is particularly cyclical. The current downturn has many of the usual features: the number of new dwellings being constructed has declined substantially, sales of existing houses are down and the growth rate of housing credit has fallen. In addition to these cyclical features, the housing market continues to be affected by Australia's return to a low-inflation envi...

This paper examines long term changes in the participation of women in professionally accredited computing degree programs. It reports on the results of three intensive Australia-wide studies of the situation in the mid 1980s, in 1992 and in the late 1990s. The early study painted a detailed and rather depressing picture of women’s representation in IT education. It also identified barriers to ...