This paper situates formal ontologies as one of many products in a multi-tier value grid of semantic technologies. Incremental strategies for the exploitation of intermediate products in the value grid are advocated, as a possible step towards cost-effective, low-risk and scalable business models for the application of semantic technologies. A case study is presented, illustrating a hypothetica...

What is mental toughness? This research draws on the experience of elite athletes and coaches to unearth a conceptualisation and definition of mental toughness. The interviews of 33 elite athletes and coaches (including 25 current or former elite athletes, of whom 15 had achieved an Olympic Gold Medal or World Champion status) were transcribed verbatim and analysed qualitatively to reveal under...

Résumé : Dans cet article nous nous interrogeons sur la manière d’outiller la phase de conceptualisation lors de la construction d’une ontologie à partir de textes. La mise en perspective des résultats obtenus à partir de techniques issues de la terminologie et de la fouille de textes est réalisée selon trois plans (discours, linguistique et conceptuel). Cette étude permet de mieux appréhender ...

Given that social institutions are the basis of any society, they must ideally operate in unison with functional necessities for any society to function and then flourish. The plethora of issues confronting Nigeria as a country may be traced back to weak, incompetent, and dysfunctional social institutions that have failed to alter the status quo. According to Talcott Parsons, society is analogo...

In this research, we developed and tested an integrated model relating individuals’ satisfaction with their experiential values in virtual communities. Using a realised factorial analysis and regression, we identified the factors that influence member satisfaction in virtual communities. Adopting Mathwick et al.’s (2001) concept of experiential value, we proposed a conceptualisation of a virtua...