Recent economic geography literature has underlined the role of tacit/local knowledge in embedding firms within their locales, characterised by the work on "learning regions", "territorial embeddedness", "institutional thickness" and "new industrial spaces". This paper contributes to this theoretical debate, using evidence from organisational restructuring of the U.S. department store industry ...

A set of software agents can be programmed to provide a large but finite set of services, often defined during design phase. After an evolution of the external environment, the pre-defined services could be unable to satisfy the requested quality. In this work it is proposed an agent framework capable to adapt the agents in order to improve the quality of services provided by an agent society i...

Text expanding enables to relate a story by its kernel version, or by more and more detailed versions, until the maximal one, which contains all the available information. It is text versioning by progressive introduction of details about the material of the text. This process is based on a text representation, including a sentence representation and its characterizations (following Harris’s Gr...

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This paper proposes a design method of STC for discrete unstructured systems based on D-L networks. The proposed scheme determines the control input composed of arbitrary system matrices of constructed D-L networks, and thus it makes it possible to design the STC for unstructured systems whose priori knowledges are not available. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides sat...

This paper takes inspiration from the Indigenous Fijian practice of ‘curui’ – weaving or patching together as a metaphor to explore connections between climate justice, gender equality, and education in policies practices. The argues that neither equality nor can be ‘silver bullets’ for huge challenges crisis raises, particularly small island developing states (SIDS) such Fiji exist at sharp en...

The omission of epistemologies from the Global South inhibits holistic pedagogical approaches for effective sustainability teaching and learning. Employing theoretical lens ecology knowledges, structures dynamics that frame constrain education in higher were critiqued. Six constraints environmental pedagogies also deconstructed: epistemic inequity, globalisation, neoliberalism, incompatibility,...