Developing Iceland’s protected areas: taking stock and looking ahead

European Studies: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Commemorating the 20 birthday of the annus mirabilis in Europe allows for and even triggers broadish overviews of what has been achieved. This is already a period worth analyzing even in terms of history, long enough for drawing some preliminary conclusions. In the following pages we try to assess, with the benefit of hindsight, the intellectual plane of what is increasingly called as Europeani...

A successful first year: taking stock and looking ahead

The biij will shortly be completing its first year of publication. This calls for a celebration for very many reasons. There have been mistakes made, lessons learned, triumphs and achievements…all in these 12 months. With this issue, we decided it was time to pause a little and take stock of our progress during the past year. We firmly believe that knowledge should not be the monopoly of a few ...

Regulating Search Engines: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Teleradiology in Singapore--taking stock and looking ahead.

Teleradiology will have a significant impact on the delivery of healthcare and the practice of medicine. In order to ensure a positive outcome, the expected benefits, limitations and potential pitfalls of teleradiology must be carefully considered. For Singapore, teleradiology can be used to facilitate a quantum leap in the standards of radiological services. This can be achieved through the de...

Mental models of dynamic systems: taking stock and looking ahead

This paper deals with the representation of the conceptual structure of mental models of dynamic systems (MMDS). Heretofore, this structure has not been consistently defined. Consequently, studies about MMDS continue to use different conceptual structures to measure mental models. Even such properties as feedback loops and delays, which lie at the core of dynamic systems, are often not consider...