Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad overview, particular attenti...

Recent years have seen new general notions of contextuality emerge. Most these employ context-independent symbols to represent random variables in different contexts. As an example, the operational theory (Spekkens Phys Rev A 71(5):52108, 2005) treats observable being measured two contexts identically. Non-contextuality this approach is impossibility drawing ontological distinctions between ide...

Students’ self-determined or autonomous motivation in educational contexts is associated with adaptive educational and behavioural outcomes including persistence on educational tasks and academic performance. A key question for educators is whether promoting autonomous motivation toward activities in an educational context leads to increased autonomous motivation toward related activities in ex...

A major issue in information management is information update. In this paper we address this problem within the framework of a fairly general information model incorporating notions of context as a way to control and drive the update operations. We introduce three kinds of contexts: role,task and focus context. Role context relates users with update tasks, task context restricts the scope of up...

In the context of the Rio Earth Summit numerous international regimes, national policies and organizational guidelines have appeared that help translate the normative demands of sustainable development into political reality. The implementation of these instruments, however, often runs into difficulties or fails entirely. An example is the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), a progressive appro...

To achieve natural high quality synthesised speech in HMMbased speech synthesis, the effective modelling of complex acoustic and linguistic contexts is critical. Traditional approaches use context-dependent HMMs with decision tree based parameter clustering to model the full combination of contexts. However, weak contexts, such as word-level emphasis in neutral speech, are difficult to capture ...

To achieve natural high quality synthesized speech in HMM-based speech synthesis, the effective modelling of complex acoustic and linguistic contexts is critical. Traditional approaches use context-dependent HMMs with decision tree based parameter clustering to model the full combinatorial of contexts. However, weak contexts, such as word-level emphasis in natural speech, are difficult to captu...