Women’s overlooked contribution to Rwanda’s state-building conversations

Building Conversations Using Mailtrays

Current project support environments provide little direct support for group working. This paper postulates an architecture for future project support environments and describes an interaction metaphor appropriate for such an environment. Techniques for exploiting this metaphor in order to provide support for cooperative working are described. Finally a means of describing cooperation patterns ...

A Contribution to Theory Building for Mobile

Marketing experts consider the mobile device as an extremely promising marketing tool as it supports them to cope with their major challenge: getting time and attention from customers. Current mobile marketing research mostly covers success factors and acceptance analysis. Categorization, when addressed, lacks in appropriate foundation and is not linked to objectives at all. In this article we ...

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Implicit Proposal Filtering in Multi-Party Consensus-Building Conversations

An attempt was made to statistically estimate proposals which survived the discussion to be incorporated in the final agreement in an instance of a Japanese design conversation. Low level speech and vision features of hearer behaviors corresponding to aiduti, noddings and gaze were found to be a positive predictor of survival. The result suggests that non-linguistic hearer responses work as imp...

Phototrophic Microorganisms: A Potent Biodegrading Community Whose Contribution to Pesticide Fate is Currently Overlooked

Throughout the history of pesticide regulation, laboratory studies on microbial metabolism have been conducted in continuous darkness. This was based on a presumption that the communities responsible for pesticide degradation are predominantly bacteria and fungi. However, conducting studies in this way excludes the potential contribution of phototrophic microorganisms (algae) which will be pres...