Abst r a ct This paper ut ilises t he Crit ical Syst em s Heur ist ics (CSH) fram ew ork dev eloped by Werner Ulrich t o crit ically consider t he st akeholder s and design goals t hat should be consider ed as r elevant by researchers conducing Design Science Resear ch (DSR). CSH provides a philosophically and t heoret ically gr ounded fram ework and m eans for crit ical considerat ion of t he ...

economic answer to any of the French or English studies of death from the standpoint of social history. It is a study of infant mortality as an indicator of the patterns that can be perceived if the statistics generated during the late nineteenth century are examined in the light of their social grouping. Now Spree does this very well. He is interested in the individual as an economic entity an...

T he base imp edance of a A/4 monopole antenna w it h a circular condu cting dis k grou nd ~ystem on t he surface of a l ossy ha lf-space is calculated as a fu nct ion of di s k diamete r using th ree d iffe rent approximate met hods. Ve rify ing m easu rements were made on a mod el at X-band frequ encies by simulat ing the lossy ha lf-space wi t h a wate r fill ed tank sufficiently large to ap...

we were children, we would draw wrist wat ches, colorful rings, or our friends' t elephone numbers on t he backs of our hands and crib sheet s wit h not es of mat hemat ical formulae or endless list s of kings and queens on our palms. Having a bat h or sweat ing would erase t hose works of art or mini-encyclopedias. During t hose early years, our skin was t he canvas on which our rudiment ary a...

The synt hetic retinoids represent a new class of drugs wh ich a re highly effective in t he treatment of a broad spectrum of dermatologic d isease, including cystic acne, psori asis, and cutaneous di sorders of keratinization [1 3]. Moreover, t he use of synthetic retinoids in cancer prevent ion and therapy fo r both cutaneous and in te rna l t umors is potent ially the most signi ficant clini...

The article presents and analyses the first part of Norwegian educator Hartvig Nissen’s (1815–1874) comprehensive report from his study tour to Scotland in 1853. Nissen occupies an important place nineteenth-century educational history general, he is regarded as main driving force behind most School Act, ratified 1860. sheds light upon how presented Scottish school system state education at tim...

. Tl:is paper des?ribes a scat tering method for meas uring microwave diff ractio n fi elds uSlllg light modulatIO n. A small photoelectric cell is suspended in t he fi eld as a scatterer upon whi ch light p ulses shine at an audi o rate. Only t he siO"nal scattered back by t he scat~ terer is modulated. A co herent detecto r is used which has ban outp ut voltage proportional to t he square of ...

A hor i zon ta l e lectr ic dipole, loca ted a b o v e t he p lane in te r face of two n o n c o n d u c t i n g media , has a dipole m o m e n t wh ich is a n a r b i t r a r y b u t g iven func t ion of t ime w h e n t > 0 a n d which is zero w h e n t < 0. T rave l l i ng e l ec t romagne t i c waves, g e n e r a t e d b y th i s dipole, are ca lcu la ted w i t h t he a id of a mod i f i ca ...

Abst ract. A ce llula r auto ma to n con sists of a lattice of sites whose values evo lve deter m inistically accord ing to a lo cal int eract ion ruJe. For a given ru le and ar bit ra ry sp atia l seq uence, t he prei rnage of th e seq ue nce is defined to be t he se t of t u ples tha t a re map ped by t he rule o nto t he seq ue nce. Recu rrence rela tio ns a re pro vided t hat ex press t he ...