Twenty mice (Mus musculus), the second filial generation offspring from a C57BL/6 and DBA/2J cross, received spatial win-shift and win-stay water escape training within a mixed design in which all mice received both types of training. Acquisition under win-shift was superior to win-stay with respect to errorless trials and latencies regardless of the order in which the procedures were experienc...

In this paper, an analogy between IT firm valuation and IS valuation is used to learn from how investment banking professionals cope with the renowned valuation problem. It becomes clear that theoretically sound approaches like the discounted cash flow might be inappropriate to determine the true value of a software company. Especially for IT valuation, real options approaches are a promising w...

was describing her marital problems, 'without having to have it in real life.' It is true that, for many of us, the cinema screen carries a representation of personal problems which we choose to leave undisturbed in ourselves. The screen thus serves a double purpose. What Freud described as a 'screen memory' displays the part of the problem that we choose to remember, and also serves another fu...

Back in the 1960s, it was established that bureaucracy and innovation tend to oppose each other. However not many “innovative” organisations have managed to banish bureaucracy altogether. Topicus, a young software house in the Netherlands, has done this. It has developed an organisational strategy that creates a “spin-off” whenever the organisation becomes too large and is in danger of losing i...

The high heterogeneity in smart house infrastructures as well as in the smart grid poses several challenges when it comes into developing approaches for energy efficiency. Consequently, several monitoring and control approaches are underway, and although they share the common goal of optimizing energy usage, they are fundamentally different at design and operational level. Therefore, we conside...

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keck School of Medicine [email protected] Rossier School of Education Division of Interactive Media, School of Cinema-Television Annenberg School for Communication, Integrated Media Systems Center Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Integrated Media Systems Center University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Institute for Creative Technologies, USC Affiliate...

Permabit is a software company that makes a storage clustering product called Permeon. Permeon grew out of the need to reconcile a vision of the future of globally distributed, secure, private and robust storage with near-term marketplace realities. This paper discusses the evolution of the ideas embodied in Permeon.

Smart Houses are a prominent field of research referring to environments adapted to assist people in their everyday life. Older people and people with disabilities would benefit the most from the use of Smart Houses because they provide the opportunity for them to stay in their home for as long as possible. In this review, the developments achieved in the field of Smart Houses for the last 16 y...