This chapter is designed to help you refine your first draft by guiding you in developing a coherent essay. Remember that a literature review should not be written as a series of connected summaries ( or annotations) of the literature you have read. Instead, it should have a clearly stated argument, and it should be developed in such a way that all of its elements work together to communicate a...

As the reader will quickly notice, this version is not complete, and even where text is in place it is occasionally closer to notes for a first draft than a proper first draft. My apologies for that. Still, much of the general sense of the argument is in place, and the reader can get a sense of what will be presented in the eventual Part IV from the introduction. Also, the present version of Pa...

SAMUDRA RepoRt No. 72 The marine fishery of the Kerala state in India is globally wellknown for its high productivity, species diversity, skilled fishers and also, importantly, for sustaining a vibrant small-scale fishery on its once-sandy beaches. Kerala’s fishery has been a trendsetter. It hosted the world’s first development project in 1952 when Norway, India and the United Nations (UN) came...

First, hypercharacterization will be distinguished from redundancy, pleonasm and reinforcement. A set of phenomena of hypercharacterization will be reviewed and classified. The leading questions are: •= What is the function of hypercharacterization? •= What is the role of hypercharacterization in the various components of the linguistic system, in particular in inflection and word-formation? Th...

Author Contributions Paul Sowden and Andrew Pringle wrote the first draft. Liane Gabora contributed critical review and additions to the manuscript. Paul Sowden produced the final version of the submitted manuscript. Paul Sowden and Liane Gabora produced the revised manuscript for publication following peer review.

This document was written based on “very first draft” of MPEG-7 PPD (document N1923), and on some of the discussions in Fribourg and in the AHG. However, it is a personal contribution. For time reasons, we did not include the modifications to N1923 presented by Ibrahim Sezan, which synchronize it to other input documents. Modifications vs. N1923 are indicated through the Word versioning mechani...

Pervasive Healthcare – i.e. designing pervasive computing technologies for healthcare usage – is an especially promising area within pervasive and ubiquitous computing research. However, it is extremely difficult to evaluate such systems because establishing clinical evidence for medical benefits would require longitudinal, randomized, doubleblind, placebo-controlled trials involving a homogene...

New computer-based writing environments are being developed which combine a hypertext ‘ideas organiser’ with a text editor. We compare two algorithms which could be used in such environments for turning networks of notes representing ideas into linear draft documents. The algorithms treat the notes network as a directed, labelled graph and they are designed to produce a linear ordering of the n...

Note: The author is Executive Director, The EDGE Institute. He was research co-ordinator for the SA Government’s MAP team until July 2001. This paper represents his personal views only. This paper was prepared with financial support from the UK Department of International Development’s South Africa office. It does not reflect DfID policy. Without implicating them, I would like to thank: Bridget...