Social aspects of uncertainty

Uncertainty Aspects in Component

Successful software reuse depends on many factors, adequate description of reusable software is one of them. This paper focuses on some of the inherent problems in adequately describing software for later focussed retrieval. Out of these considerations, a hybrid approach, combining well known techniques from library science with techniques based on the inherent property of software, its executa...

Social Aspects of Tuberculosis

Social Aspects of Information

In recent decades, institutions have been moving away from the positivism evident in many disciplines in the earlier years of the 20 century. Instead of seeking for a single truth or standard, institutional assessments have become local in nature within a framework of best practices. Similarly, librarianship must move in that direction in responding to local needs. With the advent of a new cent...

Social Aspects of Transport

Before addressing those, however, it is important , I suggest, to go back to basics and ask ourselves ‘what is transport for?’ and ‘how best can the economic, social and other objectives identified be achieved’, before we proceed to more specific questions as to the identification and appraisal of social benefits and costs of road transport. Then I consider briefly a range of specific issues wh...

Social Aspects of Homosexuality.

Social anthropologists have found that homosexuals and homosexual acts have occurred in all civilizations without exception. The reaction to homosexuality has varied from severe condemnation (as in our own society), through indifference, to acceptance, and in a few cases, even to glorification, where the high priests of a religious cult have been exclusively homosexual. No matter what the react...