The paper focuses on the rapid development of the digital culture and the challenges it imposes to human creativity. It analyses e-learning, digital entertainment, digital art and the issues of creativity and improvisation. It also presents a classification of the levels in the creative structure including hardware and software tools; product developers; creators and end users. Special attentio...

This article explores how we can enhance our understanding of the moral responsibilities in daily, plural practices of responsive evaluation. It introduces an interpretive framework for understanding the moral aspects of evaluation practice. The framework supports responsive evaluators to better understand and handle their moral responsibilities. A case is introduced to illustrate our argument....

Torrey and Yolken should be commended for adding to the burgeoning reports in the recent psychiatric literature describing the genocide committed by our colleagues during the Nazi era. That it has taken close to 60 years to confront this dark period in the history of psychiatry does not diminish the importance of finally dealing with it. It is painfully shameful that close to 300 000 individual...

introduction: the aim of this study is to examine the hospital manager’s job in order to identify their educational needs in esfahan in 1382. to do so, first, we tried to become familiar with the current situation by using the experiences of hospital managers in esfahan and then we made an attempt to determine the optimal situation by asking the views of management specialists. finally, the two...

This study assesses the current state of responsibilities and skill sets required of cataloging professionals. It identifies emerging roles and competencies focusing on the digital environment and relates these to the established knowledge of traditional cataloging standards and practices. We conducted a content analysis of 349 job descriptions advertised in AutoCAT in 2005–2006. Multivariate t...

Responsibility assignment modelling is concerned with developing a picture of how the responsibilities in a socio-technical system are distributed across the different automated elements and actors in that system. At this stage, we are not concerned with the details of the responsibilities themselves, nor with what the actors in the system have to do to discharge these responsibilities. Rather,...

Starting in January 2002, the majority of the Norwegian Parliament transferred the ownership of all public hospitals from the county governments to the central state. This round of reforms represents the most recent attempt by the central government to resolve major problems in the Norwegian health care system. In this paper, we describe these reforms and the problems they are intended to remed...

Recently, the perspective on the role of the environment in multiagent systems has undergone a fundamental change. Whereas functionalities of the environment are often dealt with implicitly or in an ad-hoc manner, recent research puts forward the environment as a first-order design abstraction in multiagent systems. Several researchers have demonstrated that the environment can be used in a cre...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, present significant challenges for policymakers at all levels of government. Since terrorism seems to present particularly acute risks for core urban areas, it may influence economic and policy decisions in ways that affect the spatial distribution of population and economic activity. These impacts, however, will depend importantly on the assignment ...