Within the context of globalization, multilinguality and cross-linguality for information access have emerged as issues of major interest. In order to achieve the goal that users from all countries have access to the same information, there is an impending need for systems that can help in overcoming language barriers by facilitating multilingual and cross-lingual access to data. In this paper,...

2 SUMMARY Programs are not read sequentially like a book but rather selectively like an encyclopedia. Instead of linear text we therefore suggest non-linear active text as a medium for structuring and browsing source code. While common program editors are mainly character based we believe that non-textual information such as pictures, links, folds, and annotations can improve the readability of...

This research constructs a design-oriented, Internet-mediated, and knowledge-sharing architecture. Therein XML files serve as the basic exchange and storage format of knowledge texts in the transaction-matching process. All sorts of product information needed by the users of the system platform, including various concepts and related features which involve such different fields as the design, p...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead, a collection of coffin texts, has long been thought by Egyptologists to describe the journey of the soul in the afterlife, or the Am Duat. In fact, the so – called Book of the Dead describes the invisible Substratum, the “black hole” form of matter to which all matter returns, and from which all matter arises. The hieroglyphics of the Papyrus of Ani, for example, ...

The relatively new field of open educational resources (OER) is just now receiving more widespread attention and study. As such, there have been few opportunities thus far to share knowledge across program, organizational and national boundaries. This article presents a case study of the development of the South African project Free High School Science Texts (FHSST). Based on observations of pr...

In this article, I intend to concentrate on one type of process by which Scots has found new legitimation as a language, and how discourses surrounding the issue of Scots might seek to contribute to the creation of a new Scottish society. I whish to show how history is used as a legitimating discursive device by the various components of the Scots language revitalisation movement. The question ...

Nitrogen balance of a boreal Scots pine forest J. F. J. Korhonen, M. Pihlatie, J. Pumpanen, H. Aaltonen, P. Hari, J. Levula, A.-J. Kieloaho, E. Nikinmaa, T. Vesala, and H. Ilvesniemi Department of Physics, P.O. Box 48, 00 014, University of Helsinki, Finland Department of Forest Sciences, P.O. Box 27, 00 014, University of Helsinki, Finland Hyytiälä Forestry Field station, Hyytiäläntie 124, 35 ...

Scholars around the world are under increasing pressure to publish their research in the medium of English. However, little empirical research has explored how the global premium of English influences the academic text production of scholars working outside of English-speaking countries. This article draws on a longitudinal text-oriented ethnographic study of psychology scholars in Hungary, Slo...

The goal of most hypermedia systems is to open up complex information spaces through the use of associative networks of nodes containing texts, images, and acoustic signals. The power of such information systems can be considerably enhanced by the integration of knowledge representation. We illustrate this claimwith an example hypermedia information system about the oldest existing globe of the...