In this article I adopt the concept of ‘rhetorical spaces’ as a tool for exploring the creation of dialogues between stakeholders that can enhance realistic participation by communities. It is argued that evaluation research can be imbued with a ‘code of presentation’ that renders input from community participants to be unspoken, unheard or dismissed. Without an understanding and appreciation o...

The growing volume and complexity of the World Wide Web creates a need for new forms of interaction with information. Spatial metaphors have been in the focus of interface research for a number of years. Recently, a related concept called spatialization has emerged as one possible strategy for dealing with modern information glut. However, the term remains ill-defined. We present a definition o...

Preprocess: a set D of points in R d Query: given a new point q, report a point pD with the smallest distance to q q p Motivation

This paper relates the discussion of articulation work (and of disarticulation) to issues of the creation and control of collective communication spaces. Four different types of settings are examined occupationally segregated terrains, emergency situations, scarce-resource settings and performance-intensive settings. What is articulated in such settings is seen as dependin~l on the properties o...

This article gives an analysis of topological and homological properties for loop spaces of configuration spaces. The main topological results are given by certain choices of product decompositions of these spaces, as well as “twistings” between the factors. The main homological results are given in terms of extensions of the “infinitesimal braid relations” or “universal YangBaxter Lie relations”.

This paper introduces the concept of an approach merotopological space and studies its categorytheoretic properties. Various topological categories are shown to be embedded into the category whose objects are approach merotopological spaces. The order structure of the family of all approachmerotopologies on a nonempty set is discussed. Employing the theory of bunches, bunch completion of an app...

In this abstract, we try to build a bridge between Guarino’s notion of quality fields/patterns and the Theory of Conceptual Spaces (CS). For that, we employ an extension of CS called Holistic-Structure Spaces.

Biological macromolecules, living in the confines of a cell, often adopt conformations that are unlikely to occur in free space. In this paper, we investigate the effects of confinement on the shape of a semiflexible chain. Results of Monte Carlo simulations show the existence of a shape transition when the persistence length of the polymer becomes comparable to the dimensions of the box. An or...