Recent technological developments have provided us with opportunities for novel ways of mediating and supporting different user activities by interconnecting different devices for distributing, broadcasting and accessing information. However, little is known about how best to design such ‘shared information spaces’ to augment current work practice and promote new forms of cooperative access to ...

Paralleling the development of the information society, European Union institutions are making more and more information available electronically. The progress of this process is reviewed. It is a process which contributes to the openness of the EU institutions. How effective are electronic media in providing access to information? It is concluded that the journalistic and library professions w...

Introduction. Sharing of information across cultural boundaries does not always live up to expectations. Information behaviour is an underlying factor, which can contribute to poor use or non-use of the information or information services at the disposal of indigenous people in a development context. Method. A literature study of information behaviour, cultural contexts and information technolo...

There are two main approaches to the problem of donkey anaphora (e.g. If John owns a donkey, he beats it). Proponents of dynamic approaches take the pronoun to be a logical variable, but they revise the semantics of quantification so as to allow an indefinite to bind a variable that is not within its scope. Older dynamic approaches took this measure to apply solely to indefinites; recent dynami...

In this reply, we briefly deal with each of these issues. As Lawson points out, we cite Martin Paldam (2003) to convince skeptical readers that the economic freedom indicators provide valuable information and should be used more often in empirical research. Indeed, the change in the economic freedom indicator can be used as a proxy for the institutional changes and policies generally supported ...

The fast changing or the development of technologies induces the possibility to process the information in key moments in different locations. Thus, not only those who are learning need mobile tools for learning, but also the trainers need mobile tools for preparing the classes, for coordinating the educational activities. Using this background, new patterns had been developed based on its main...

We prove NP-hardness results for five of Nintendo’s largest video game franchises: Mario, Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Pokémon. Our results apply to generalized versions of Super Mario Bros. 1–3, The Lost Levels, and Super Mario World; Donkey Kong Country 1–3; all Legend of Zelda games; all Metroid games; and all Pokémon role-playing games. In addition, we prove PSPACE-completenes...

This article focuses on the development of a data warehouse to facilitate government decision-making on national human resources development and to provide public access to information. A set of key challenges was confronted in the development of the data warehouse including: the conceptualisation, design, implementation and management of the data warehouse system. The underlying questions that...