strategic environmental assessment can be viewed as a process to integrate the concept ofsustainable development into planning. in this context, sea can be regarded as a method that regulates theplanning process to a state of sustainable development. however, to reach that goal it is necessary to achieve full integration of planning and the sea process.therefore this paper considers the integra...

This article presents an in-depth case study analysis of a single rural telecentre located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The study embraces the sociotechnical research paradigm and uses a combination of hermeneutics and actor-network theory as the theoretical foundation with which to explore the mutual interaction between people and ICTs. The objective of the analysis is to gain...

Due to the demanding acoustic conditions in physical education lessons and the related problems with health and academic success, the aim of this study was to examine the acoustic conditions of teaching in sport halls in Slovenia. Thirtyfive sport halls were selected, reflecting four types of school sport halls grouped according to the period of their construction. The reverberation time was me...

A multi-purpose software tool (BioVoice) is presented, capable of performing automatic analysis of a large range of voice signal, no manual setting being required to the user. This makes the tool feasible for application by non-expert users in several fields, ranging from high-pitched new-born cries, to adult healthy singing vocalizations and to irregular, pathological voice signals. Main voice...

The design of automated negotiators has been the focus of abundant research in recent years. However, due to difficulties involved in creating generalized agents that can negotiate in several domains and against human counterparts, many automated negotiators are domain specific and their behavior cannot be generalized for other domains. Some of these difficulties arise from the differences inhe...