A number of recent developments in software engineering — from agile methods to aspect-oriented programming to design patterns to good enough software — share a number of common attributes. These developments avoid a unifying theme or plan, focus on negotiation between different concerns, and exhibit a high level of context sensitivity. We argue that these developments are evidence of a postmod...

and that the active form is present at undetectable levels in vivo. In support of a role for Vg1, a recent study using a dominant-negative mutant indicates that Vg1 is David Kimelman and Kevin J. P. Griffin Department of Biochemistry University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195-7350 required for the development of dorsal mesoderm and dorsal endoderm (Joseph and Melton, 1998). However, the...

As the publication of picture books that contain meta-fictive or postmodern elements increases, research concerning how intermediate grade readers respond and construct meaning in transaction with these texts is important. This study explores readers' responses and discussions focusing on the picture book Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Utilizing discussion transcripts and response journa...

The transformation of industrial city into modern city entailed the change in the dominant nature of the city from the site of production to that of consumption. In the postmodern city, the trend accelerated, or better to say, heightened into "mass consumption". Consumption is no longer considered a routine and banal activity. It is rather a consciously and unconsciously affected affair that is...

A position in academia should exist in which tenets of Postmodern thought can be posited on a foundation of faith—a camp in which apologetics is used to test theory, not simply to dispel it. The seeming Postmodern tendency to eschew any sort of unified experience asks necessary questions of conventions that seem antiquated—conventions of social codes regarding gender and race, of social etiquet...

This article is an investigation of humanism in philosophy of mathematics from the point of view of postmodernism. We claim that humanistic mathematics is compatible with postmodernism which is taking over everything we have, do, or wish. Omar Khayyam, an Iranian mathematician and poet: A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilde...

1 Exploring “Events” as an Information Systems Research Methodology Anita Greenhill, University of Manchester, UK and Gordon Fletcher, University of Salford, UK This article builds upon existing research and commentary from a variety of disciplinary sources, including information systems, organisational and management studies, and the social sciences that focus upon the meaning, significance an...

The scientific method has been the guiding principle for investigating natural phenomena, but post modernist thought is starting to threaten the foundations of the scientific approach. The rational, scientific view of the world has been painstakingly built over millennia to guarantee that research can have access to objective reality: the world, for science, contains real objects and is governe...

This article considers post-postmodern arts and trends in their diversity. The starting point of the research is comparison postmodern art environment. Postmodern paradoxically limits redundancy, not allowing sufficient displaying special features an object. Post-postmodern provide a possibility to overcome lack danger events self-happening human being. Object-oriented ontology (OOO) by Graham ...