Our starting point in this paper is that CSCW has analyzed and conceptualized many cooperative artifacts, though never the “modern” open office space, dominating discussions of new ways of working, flexible offices and the learning organization. It is our basic suspicion that many of the ideas behind such office design are contradicting to how CSCW views cooperation as basis for learning and kn...

BACKGROUND A properly planned dental office can contribute directly to the success of your practice. Critical steps in creating a successful dental office environment are developing a design program, determining the size and cost of your facility, selecting a location and assembling the appropriate professionals to help with planning and construction. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Planning a dental o...

Intelligent technology has had a profound impact on working patterns and the needs of office workers. The corresponding environments have also changed to some extent. As more intelligent functions are integrated, question as whether environment really meets workers be considered. In this study, methodology that is applicable improve biophilic designs simultaneously in was developed according ob...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have completed an estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. The amendment discussed in this letter (hereafter called “the reconciliation proposal”) is the one that was made public on March 18, 2010, as ...

Helioseismology has allowed us to infer the rotation in the greater part of the solar interior with high precision and resolution. The results show interesting conflicts with earlier theoretical expectations, indicating that the the Sun is host to complex dynamical phenomena, so far hardly understood. This has important consequences for our ideas about the evolution of stellar rotation, as well...