of the author and not the views of the Flemish Community. The Flemish Community cannot be held accountable for the potential use of the communicated views and data. 1 Nowadays 'cultural participation' is often reduced to a matter of 'physical access'. It is used to point out which and more particularly how many people visit a cultural institution or take part in a cultural event. In this paper ...

Network science has become an important tool in the analysis of societies and entities. There has been discussion in the literature about dichotomous two-mode networks and methods to derive the onemode network, but no research have yet contributed to the expansion of this problem and its applications. In this paper, we present a novel advanced mathematical methodology to manipulate multi-mode n...

ed from time, place and physical conditions. This is called virtualization. The exciting thing for a network theory is that this process has its limits, as the next statement holds. 2. The substantial relation ‘Despite their articulation all social relations remain inextricably bound up with units and physical environments In this statement my conception of network theory is different from most...

The notion of a mobile society needs to be rooted in the newly emerging forms of business and organisation of the global economy. In this paper we explore the five stages of business focus evolution over the past 50 years, with a special attention paid to the current, the fifth stage. From the given and fixed processes, through their re-engineering and extension to networks, we have moved up to...

Live trapping and questionnaires were used to evaluate amount, distribution, and costs of control of damage to Ontario apple trees by meadow voles (Microtus enns lvanicus) in 1981-82. In a sample of 180 orchards, 5802 (0. trees were damaged or killed by voles. Orchards with high levels of damage (> 2.5%) were smaller than the average orchard in our sample. Application of rodenticides showed no ...

Recent reports ofrapid visual search for some feature conjunctions-suggested that preattentive vision might be sensitive to scene-based as well as to image-based features (Enns & Rensink, 1990a, 1990b). This study examined visual search for targets defined by the direction of a luminance gradient, a conjunction of luminance and relative location that often: corresponds to ob-= ject curvature an...

With the growth of the Internet comes a growth in a ubiquitous networked society. Common Web 2.0 applications include a rapidly growing trend for social network sites. Social network sites typically converged different relationship types into one group of ‘‘friends.’’ However, with such vast interconnectivity, convergence of relationships, and information sharing by individual users comes an in...

In the near future, high quality multimedia services such as Internet broadcast, remote medical services and Internet video-phones will be major information technology services. Consequently, new computer systems for providing such services are desperately called on. In this paper, we are proposing a next generation Internet server by explaining the design concept, the characteristics and the a...

E. G. Enns* Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Calgary E. Ferenstein Institute of Mathematics Technical University of Warsaw (Received January 23,1984: Revised July 23,1984) N independent and identically distributed observations of some random variable with a continuous distribution Fare sequentially presented to two players, White and Black. Each player is required to selec...

We develop a three-step computing approach to explore a hierarchical ranking network for a society of captive rhesus macaques. The computed network is sufficiently informative to address the question: Is the ranking network for a rhesus macaque society more like a kingdom or a corporation? Our computations are based on a three-step approach. These steps are devised to deal with the tremendous c...