Purpose – To provide a social-theoretic framework which explains how e-commerce affects social conditions, such as availability of information and equality of access to information, influences actors’ behavior, shapes e-commerce business models, and in turn impacts industry structure. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical investigation based on one-hour interviews with owners/managers of nine...

As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, the speech signal carries information about the speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic experience and mental state. These speaker characteristics are found in speech at all levels of description: from the spectral information in the sounds to the choice of words and utterances themselves. This chapter presents an introduction to speech ...

Equitable access to information is one of the most vital principles in the emerging global information economy, and there is perhaps no region of the world that epitomizes the conflict between the information haves and have-nots than Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In addition to the more traditional forms of poverty, a new concept, binformation poverty,Q has emerged that better explains the true nat...

It is a well-known fact that despite the rapid growth of technology over the past years, not all people have equal access to information and knowledge. Senior citizens are one major example of people being excluded from the abundance of services that technology has to offer nowadays, which results in feelings of inactiveness, loneliness and isolation. This paper presents a European Project in t...

Motivated by the potential use of catalytic materials in micro-combustor application, the primary scope of this study is to investigate the lean extinction characteristics of premixed flames in the presence of catalytic reaction. In particular, the effects of mixture dilution on the lean flammability limit are examined by adopting a stagnation-point flow system with a methane/air mixture over a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to invite comment on the proposed use of the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz bands for wireless point-to-point services including carriage of broadband wireless technology. • whether the proposed coordination arrangements are appropriate for the proposed spectrum use including whether the proposed database recording method, and self-coordination, arrangements are ap...