nowadays, marketing is considered as one of the most important parts of all manufacturing and service activities. in order to reach more share of goal market, different companies always update and change their marketing policies. these companies have to know that different customers impressed by different marketing policies and them, they should choose most suitable policies for one goal group....

This paper turns our attention to the arts and New Literacy Studies as an understudied area in the learning sciences. Our study documents, describes, and analyzes urban youths’ Media Arts Practices within a Computer Clubhouse, drawing on the New Literacy Studies movement and work on authentic practices. Results indicated that youth engaged in at least eight literate practices aligned with profe...

Recently ubiquitous cities have been developed all over the world. They aim at embedding information and communication technology, information services and digital content in the urban landscape to make the citizens’ everyday lives easier. One of these future-oriented cities is Oulu in Finland. It makes part of the most “intelligent” communities in the world. Oulu offers an information and comm...

Ontologies present an attractive technology for describing bio-medicine, because they can be shared, and have rich computational properties. However, they lack the rich expressivity of English and fit poorly with the current scientific “publish or perish” model. While, there have been attempts to combine free text and ontologies, most of these perform post-hoc annotation of text. In this paper,...

Literate executables redefine the relationship between compiled binaries and source code to be that of chicken egg, so it's easy derive either from other. This episode Drill Bits provides a general-purpose literacy tool showcases advantages by retrofitting it onto everyone's favorite command-line utility.