The empirical research in this paper examines teachers’ attitudes to, and uses of ICT for administration and management. Additionally teachers’ views were sought on the factors that would influence their use of ICT, and the effects of their using ICT for administration and management. The primary teachers in the sample reported generally positive attitudes to all aspects of ICT use for administ...

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This paper discusses the recommendation Rec(2004)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on legal, operational and technical standards for e-voting in light of the various attacks against the 2009 Austrian federation of students election. This election was the first instance of e-voting being implemented in a legally binding election in Austria. The question is if the recommendation p...

K-means clustering algorithm has been used to classify patterns of Japanese candlesticks which accompany the prices of several assets registered in the Warsaw stock exchange (GPW). It has been found that the trend reversals seem to be preceded by specific combinations of candlesticks with notable frequency. Surprisingly, the same patterns appear in both bullish and bearish trend reversals. The ...

Activation of collaborative communities is hampered by the communicative fragmentation that is at least partially caused by their distributed tool systems. We examine the role of domain, conversation, and functionality roles in modelling community activation. We show how collaboration patterns can be used to design appropriate socio-technical solutions. These patterns contextualize the various ...

This paper outlines a formal description of grammatical relations between definitions and verbal predications found in Definitional Contexts in Spanish. It can be situated within the framework of Predication Theory, a model derived from Government & Binding Grammar. We use this model to describe: (i) the syntactic patterns that establish the relationship between definitions and predications; (i...

The senescence of a clinical information system is more likely to have administrative than technical bases. Supporting this claim is a case study of one aging oncology information system. The case study is qualitative, as behooves the subject matter. Content analysis of several documents suggests that the change in job description of the data coordinator led to a workflow breakdown. Next, twent...

The financial and non-financial involvement of venture capitalists is supposed to be positively correlated with firm performance. This paper deals with the evaluation of the impact of venture capitalists on employment growth of new founded firms. Differences between high-tech and low-tech industries as well as the impact of other investors are analyzed. The estimation results show that survivin...