Contemplating Musical Essence

Contemplating Ocean Wave Measurements

This is a personal contemplation on the state of ocean wave measurement, historically, and with an eye toward the future. The conceptual basis which leads to the conventional wave measuring instruments has been in practice for over six decades which is basically single point observations of three-dimensional waves. We need new conceptual advancement and new instrumentation to rejuvenate our res...

Contemplating Our Lives

How would you adjust if everything familiar to you changed? Many of us can recall a time when a challenge forced us to contemplate change, and/or take risks. The essays in this section focus on people who have taken risks, people who have inspired change in others, and people who have had to change themselves. For instance, Jennifer Balidio describes the challenges she faces while writing, Kris...

Contemplating Whitehead's Freedom and Discipline

This paper extends the previous application of Alfred Whitehead's educational ideas to the domain of enterprise education. In doing so, a unique approach to enterprise education is illustrated that links students to their reality whilst also connecting the curriculum to contemporary entrepreneurship theory. The paper reports upon past cycles of reflective practice related to the developing hic ...

Contemplating Open Source Enterprise Systems

Until recently, integration of enterprise systems has been supported largely by monolithic architectures. From a technical perspective, this approach has been challenged by the suggestion of component-based enterprise systems. Lately, the nature of software as proprietary item has been questioned through the increased use of open source software in business computing in general. This suggests t...

Unborn child abuse: contemplating legal solution.