Culture Change and Integration: An Eskimo Example

An Example of Process Change

Processes in businesses and other organisations are not set in concrete. They have to be flexible and responsive to stimuli which cause them to change. Process technology must relect these characteristics if it is to find realistic application. This paper illustrates how the evolutionary nature of processes may be supported in a particular process technology, that originally developed in the IP...

The Culture of Paper , Information and Power : an Irish Example

The analysis of electronic versus paper documents, especially in the context of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), has often focused on affordances, issues of design and implementation and work practices. Issues of culture are often understated in such studies. Yet, like any object of material culture, the use of paper files, as well as an aversion to electronic information sharing, is...

Genes, Culture, and Agriculture: An Example of Human Niche Construction

Architecture, Representation and Integration: An Example From Robot Navigation

This position paper for the Fall Symposium on the Control of the Physical World by Intelligent Agents discusses the need to consider the entire set of desired robot behaviors when designing a software architecture and knowledge representation. Integrating multiple representations and action mechanisms is necessary in an real robot and constraints on that integration come from a variety of areas...

Cold Acclimatization in Eskimo

0 N EXPOSURE to cold the body has a complicated physiological problem to solve. There is a limit to the heat it can produce to provide for an increased heat loss and during exposure of much severity a heat deficit is incurred. While peripheral tissues are cooling, the central body temperature must be kept within a very narrow range if the function of vital organs is to be maintained. If the acc...