it is usual to rank the participating countries in olympic games in accordance with the number of medals they have won. but it should be mentioned that achieving competition output (medals acquired) is possible only through utilization of input and appropriate processes. so, lower input should be considered along with higher outputs to evaluate more precisely and regularly. in this study, one o...

A Lasting Legacy for London?, a document produced by the London Assembly,2 has highlighted key points of the legacy of previous Games. The legacy left by the Games in four previous host cities – Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004 – was assessed for nine key sectors. These results are summarised in Table 1 overleaf, which analyses the data using a scorecard sys...

S ince the early 1960s, the notion of context has been modeled and exploited in many areas of informatics. The scientific community has debated definitions and uses for many years without reaching clear consensus [4]. Nonetheless, it is commonly agreed that context is about evolving, structured, and shared information spaces, and that such spaces are designed to serve a particular purpose. In u...

V. Bužek, 1,2 V. Vedral, 1 M. B. Plenio, 1 P. L. Knight, 1 and M. Hillery 3 Optics Section, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, England Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravská cesta 9, 842 28 Bratislava, Slovakia Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10021 ~Received 13 Nove...

1 Department of Mathematics Education, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Algebra and Geometry, Faculty of Sciences, Palacky University (UP), 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic 3 Department of Mathematics, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea 4 Department of Mathematics Education, Chinju National University of Education, Chinju 660-756,...

2. Originator and Professional Background: Leon Festinger was born in 1919 in New York, New York. He attended the College of the City of New York and received a B.S. in 1939. He attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City, receiving his Master's Degree in 1940 and his Ph.D. in 1942. He began his career at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, as an instructor from 1943-45. He was A...

a Department of Glycobiotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 38, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; b Department of Graphic Arts Technology and Applied Photochemistry, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy...