Recently, Photonic Slot Routing (PSR) has been proposed as a practical solution for achieving optically transparent communication in Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) wide-area networks. PSR makes use of available and simple wavelength-non-sensitive optical devices to switch data ows at di erent wavelengths, but in the same time slot, as a single unit. It thereby trades switching node comp...

This fMRI study aimed to examine how differences in literacy processing demands may affect cortical activation patterns in 11- to 12-year-old children with dyslexia as compared to children with typical reading skills. Eleven children with and 18 without dyslexia were assessed using a reading paradigm based on different stages of literacy development. In the analyses, six regions showed an inter...

To extend the development of cumulative theory on the enduring themes of Information Systems (IS), we take an historical perspective of a core topic within the field, namely Decision Support Systems (DSS). Motivated by the complexity of strategic decision-making within the Climate Change Working Group of the State Government of New South Wales, we conducted a content analysis of IT strategy doc...

This paper explores organizational learning as a foundation for social innovation, defined as “change in the public sector focusing on improvements of social benefits”. Inertia in the general public sector has been found specifically in relation to socially endangered children. As Drucker (1985, 1998) points to, this inertia may come from a lack of well-defined goals, incentives, and product or...

Reflective learning is a mechanism to turn experience into learning. As a mechanism for self-directed learning, it is critical for success at work. This is true for individual employees, but also for teams and whole organizations. Change processes are typical situations in which people question their practices, reflect on how they adopt new practice and try to learn from good or bad practice fo...

Introduction The dimensions of the debate Disclaimers Roadmap Demands of the marketplace: what are we trying to achieve? Comprehensiveness Currency Reliability How new technology shifts the nature of the discussion Technology affects production as well as distribution By increasing access, new technology explodes the meaning of "public" What are the "competing" models? A pause Public vs. privat...

We survey three recent breakthroughs in algebraic combinatorics. The first is the proof by Knutson and Tao, and later Derksen and Weyman, of the saturation conjecture for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. The second is the proof of the n! and (n + 1)n−1 conjectures by Haiman. The final breakthrough is the determination by Baik, Deift, and Johansson of the limiting behavior of the length of th...

Let u(d, n) denote the number of permuations in the symmetric group Sn with no increasing subsequence of length greater than d. u(d, n) may alternatively be interpreted as the number of closed Z-lattice walks which begin and end at the origin and take n positive steps followed by n negative steps while remaining confined to the Weyl chamber W = {(t1, t2, . . . , td) ∈ R : t1 ≥ t2 ≥ · · · ≥ td}....

Karlin and Altschul in their statistical analysis for multiple highscoring segments in molecular sequences introduced a distribution function which gives the probability there are at least r distinct and consistently ordered segment pairs all with score at least x. For long sequences this distribution can be expressed in terms of the distribution of the length of the longest increasing subseque...