Space Law is deemed to be a branch of International Law and follows the dictum of pacta sunt servanda. This implies that specialibus treaties and conventions operate between “signatories and ratifiers”. It thus becomes a moot question whether the Space Law is applicable to other states and equally obligatory on them or that defiance is conceivable, maybe to facilitate the cause of non-state act...

Current auditing standards emphasize the importance of auditors gaining a broader understanding of an organization's operations to perform risk assessment (i.e. assess the risks of material misstatement). Auditors' ability to effectively analyze operations in the form of business processes is by definition a key determinant of their ability to appropriately plan and conduct the audit. However, ...

Graduate students face a fundamental change in identity when transitioning from undergraduate writers to graduate writers. In their new role as graduate writers and researchers, they must move from consuming knowledge to producing knowledge through their writing. Often, they must learn new genres of writing, new disciplinary conventions, and new rhetorical models. For non-native English speaker...

We followed the work of an international research network that holds regular meetings in technology-enhanced environments. The team is geographically distributed and to support its collaborative work it uses a set of technical artifacts, including audioand videoconferencing systems and a media space. We have been studying some of the techniques and social conventions the team develops for its c...