In this paper we argue that the plain old “dumb” paper is overlooked as a platform for media. In addition to technology-centric innovations, such as smart paper, the pulp and paper industry should adapt a human-centric approach as well. By using our research on photo books as an example, we bring forth the qualities of paper media from a user-centric perspective. This perspective is critical in...

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This paper reports the results of the CASS survey of households for 2002 and compares them with the results of the earlier CASS surveys of 1995 and 1988. The CASS surveys still remain the only source of householdlevel data on income and other individual and household characteristics in China. They also provide the only comprehensive data base for the application of an income definition that hel...

In the last years Prof. Lenz has contributed a lot of work on Business Intelligence. This articles tries to give a short overview of selected papers. Since 1975 Hans-J. Lenz published more than 350 scientific books, papers and reports. A brief overview on the work on Business Intelligence is given in this article. Corresponding to the structure of this book the following articles are outlined.

Content The first paper by Jean Mawhin on critical point theory [] was published in  and was devoted to periodic solutions of a forced pendulum equation. One of the most recent papers in  [] concerns periodic solutions of difference systems with φ-Laplacian. It is impossible to describe all the contributions. We have selected  articles,  books and some fundamental topics: the force...

book social media are reading communities primarily developed as online social networks. this study aims to find precise criteria and indicators for evaluation of book social network and examine and rank the most popular book social networks. the sample population included 10 english and two persian book/reading social networks publicly available on the web. a checklist containing 9 main criter...