This work-in-progress paper focuses on the problem of the increasing use of paper documents by knowledge workers. The problem seems to exist despite the fact that many companies adopted technologies enabling the paperless environment. The paper identifies factors that influence the adoption of paperless environment by knowledge workers. It develops a new theory and proposes an experiment design...

In analysing a well-known hash-coding method, Knuth gave an exact expression for the average number of rejections encountered by players of a variant of musical chairs. We study a variant more closely related to musical chairs itself and deduce the same expression by a purely combinatorial approach. In an analysis of the average time to insert an item when using openaddress hash-coding, Knuth [...

We examine the terrorist manual circulated on the day of the attacks in Oslo and on Utøya island on July 22nd 2011 to find out if the OOXML structure is consistent with claims by the suspect apprehended for the terrorist act, and to determine if there have been additional authors.

Here I draw attention to two socio-ecological paradoxes. The Jevons Paradox is based on the observation that an improvement in the efficiency with which a natural resource is used is often associated with an increase in the consumption of that resource. Similarly, the Paperless Office Paradox is based on the observation that the development of substitutes for a natural resource is not always as...

low back pain (lbp) is a widespread musculoskeletal disorder worldwide. it causes disability that influence work performance in individuals. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of lbp in the middle-aged office workers in the lebanese population. in this observational, cross-sectional study performed in 2013, overall, 250 office workers aged between 20 and 64 ye...