Product life extension is recognized as an important tool for creating more sustainable production and consumption patterns; yet, there a lack of studies with comprehensive insights into how consumers interact products throughout the product’s span, or knowledge about strategies apply to change their behaviors avoid premature disposal. The purpose this study explore motives users that positivel...

We define and explore in simulation several rules for the local evolution of generative rules for 1D and 2D cellular automata. Our implementation uses strategies from conceptual blending. We discuss potential applications to modelling social dynamics.

A survey of research on spoken language understanding is presented. It covers aspects of knowledge representation, automatic interpretation strategies, semantic grammars, conceptual language models, semantic event detection, shallow semantic parsing, semantic classification, semantic confidence, active learning

Enterprise systems (ESs) are customizable, integrated software applications designed to support core business processes. This paper reports research contrasting the relative effectiveness of two strategies for ES end-user training that differentially reflect the Sein, Bostrom, and Olfman (1999) hierarchical knowledge-level model. One strategy— procedural—involves training that targets the three...

Abstract Teaching English for Tourism at university involves both developing specialized language skills and forming knowledgeable professionals capable of appropriate intercultural communication. The distinctive feature most instances tourism discourse is the fact that it draws from a range domains. It mediates tourist experience contributes to closing gap between home- destination’s culture b...

Abstract State owned multinational enterprises (SOMNEs) have received extensive attention in recent research international business and corporate governance, which demonstrates effects of state ownership on a range strategic decisions such as the degree internationalization, foreign entry modes, host country location choices. Such are explained by factors SOMNEs’ non-financial goals, institutio...