Hitting the Ground Running

Hitting the Ground Running: Building New Zealand’s First Publicly Available Institutional Repository

A fully functional and publicly available, digital institutional repository (IR) in the space of just ten days? The technology was available, the time was right, the team was right and technical assistance from colleagues in Australia was on hand a mere cyber call away. This paper reports on how we were able to “hit the ground running” in building an open access IR in such a short space of time...

Visuomotor delays when hitting running spiders

In general, information about the environment (for instance a target) is not instantaneously available for the nervous system. A minimal delay for visual information to affect the movement of the hand is about 110 ms. However, if the movement of a target is predictable, humans can pursue it with zero delay. To make this prediction, information about the speed of the target is necessary. Our res...

Databases: Hit the Ground, Running?

Cognitive orientations in marathon running and "hitting the wall".

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether runners' cognitions during a marathon are related to "hitting the wall". To test a new and more comprehensive system for classifying cognition of marathon runners. METHODS Non-elite runners (n = 66) completed a questionnaire after finishing the 1996 London marathon. The runners were recruited through the charity SPARKS for whom they were raising money by runn...

Hitting Interface Specifications - The Role of "Common Ground" in

Data warehousing (DWH) projects are among the most expensive projects of companies in the financial industry. Problems like budget overruns and low end-user acceptance lead to the assumption that despite intensive research over the last two decades the relevant elements determining the success of such projects are not sufficiently investigated. On the basis of a case study about the implementat...