Despite current advancements in online provision of eGovernment services, interoperability issues at national and crosscountry level that will facilitate fully integrated, both vertically and horizontally, one-stop, electronic services still remain unsolved. In this context, eGovernment Interoperability Frameworks try to continually extend their scope and to outline the essential prerequisites ...

The Irvine School refers to an intellectual perspective on information technology in complex organizational settings that emerged at the University of California, Irvine, over the last three decades of the 20th century. In many ways, the rise of the Irvine School was synonymous with the rise of Rob Kling’s influence on the international community of scholars who would eventually form what Rob c...

BACKGROUND Although the government in England has a long-standing interest in walking promotion, this has not been accompanied by a coherent strategic plan or investment to support physical activity behaviour change. However, in 2008 the government announced its intention to invest £7 million into walking promotion. This article utilises Kingdon's Multiple Streams framework as an organising pri...

Resource discovery has been a major concern of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) since its inception in 1996. The ADS was heavily involved in the promotion and adoption of the Dublin Core (DC) metadata standard for categorising resources and how this can facilitate interoperability between distinct resources. An early example of this was the Z39.50 enabled Gateway which enables the cross searc...

It is exactly 30 years since Arthur Kleinman introduced the term " sociosomatic " in an attempt to refocus attention in the health and psychological sciences on the often apparent, yet all too frequently neglected, social aspects of illness, disorder, and well-being (Kleinman, 1986). Social and cultural causes, social mediators, and moderators, and social outcomes were suggested by Kleinman as ...

concepts that will lie outside learners’ prior experience. Whilst science teaching involves substantial active learning in laboratory classes, the traditional ‘passive’ lecture remains common and the place where students will likely develop understanding of the subject’s conceptual structure. The influence of presentation software such as PowerPoint in potentially guiding knowledge representati...

electronic government is an offshoot of the information technology and management of this technology and management of this technology. if implemented in the state-owned sector, e-government will effect tremendous changes in the efficiency and effectiveness of goveernment systems and services, leading to large scale popular satisfaction. while elaborating on this modern global concept, the pres...

The 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted on September 25, 2015, promotes the balance among three sustainable development dimensions – economic, social and environmental establishes a global framework achieving by 2030, having 17 (SDGs) objectives 169 related targets. European Union, together with its member states, has committed to implementing these goals at EU level...