Which architectural style makes an attractive street scape? Aesthetic preferences among city centre managers

What Makes Foreign Knowledge Attractive to Domestic Innovation Managers?

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collected and evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domestic R&D managers? We envision this process as a balancing act between direct transaction costs for communication and coordination a...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What Makes Humor Aesthetic?

The connection between humor and aesthetic experience has already been recognized by several thinkers and aesthetic educators. This essay extends the research of John Morreall and others who have examined the various connections between humor and aesthetics by focusing on the distinction between aesthetic and non-aesthetic humor. The author begins his analysis by describing the nature and purpo...

Analyzing and Refining an Architectural Style

Architectural styles have been introduced in 1] in order to classify and analyze software architectures. In that paper, Z was used as a notation to specify and study architectural styles, however some problems remained open concerning speciication and analysis of their behavioral properties. We use a new operational semantics to describe and analyze an architectural style of distributed systems...

Analyzing and Re ning an Architectural Style

Architectural styles have been introduced in 1] in order to classify and analyze software architectures. In that paper, Z was used as a notation to specify and study architectural styles, however some problems remained open concerning speciication and analysis of their behavioral properties. In this paper we use a new operational semantics to describe and analyze an architectural style for dist...