Where we describe the development and functionality of a new type of instrument, a mesoscale radiometer, designed to obtain crude but much needed measurements of fields of temperature and humidity over mesoscale areas around the instrument. 1. DECLARATION OF INTENT Whereas the meteorological research community wishes to measure or at least constrain better fields of humidity and temperature for...

Nowadays, Internet and mobile phone use are widespread worldwide. Forty percent of the world population use the Internet, whereas six times more individuals are online today compared to the last decade (International Telecommunication Union, 2012, 2013). Advancements in digital technologies have resulted in various positive applications, including (but not limited to) promoting (mental) health,...

Relationship as a quiproquo on mutual promises This research focuses on relationship as an exchange dynamic in networks systems. Relationship is defined as a quiproquo on mutual promises independently from exchange. Relational promises are perceived through four a priori dimensions: political, social, economical and individual (LISE Model). The local content of the promises is identified using ...

This paper examines whether the formal topological characterization of spatial relations between moving geographic regions provides an adequate basis for the human conceptualization of motion events for those regions. The paper focuses on gradual changes in topological relationships caused by continuous transformations of the regions (specifically, translations). Using a series of experiments, ...

Résumé : Dans cet article, nous présentons un travail de construction d’une ontologie du domaine de la réglementation Hygiène-Sécurité-Environnement (HSE) concernant les installations industrielles. Ce travail a été mené selon deux approches : l’utilisation de nomenclatures et d’interviews d’experts du domaine pour aider à la compréhension des notions du domaine et à leur conceptualisation et l...

It has been observed that global cyberactivism has challenged the limits of conventional social movement thinking which focuses on shared identity and strategic intention. The objective of this paper is to propose a conceptualisation of ‘collective agency,’ underlined by an ontology of ‘becoming,’ which seeks to expand the conceptual space that accounts for the heterogeneity and complexity of o...

Relationship marketing suggests a need to better understand and more actively involve consumers in the marketing process. This is especially the case with the Internet channel, because of its unique capability for two-v\/ay communication compared with traditional mass media. Existing research, however, has paid limited attention to consumers' general tendency to engage in online interaction. Th...

As organisations strive to improve their capabilities in the areas of Service Management and Service-oriented Architectures (SOA), SOA Governance is becoming an increasingly important success factor. However, the concept of SOA Governance is complex and not well-understood, and the adoption of an adequate SOA Governance approach in an organisation can be difficult. Tools that support SOA Govern...

In order to increase enterprise performance, economics paradigms focus, now more than ever, on how to better manage information. The modern architecture of information systems is based on distributed networks with a grand challenge representing and sharing knowledge managed by those ISs. One of the main issues in making such heterogeneous Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) working together i...