New York City is often held up as a successful example of arts-led economic development. Case studies have documented the influx of avant-garde artists and galleries into several neighborhoods, including Greenwich Village, SoHo, and Chelsea, followed by yuppies and boutiques. Some researchers have used these examples to argue that artists and galleries can spur gentrification. An alternative hy...

While entering WTO, Taiwan has become one of the members in the international community of globalization. The medium & small enterprises (M&SE), which accounts for 98 % of Taiwan industries facing even more competition due to insufficient capital, human resources, and limited organization scale. To achieve competitive edges for the globalization requires efficiency in doing business and scale i...

In this theoretical paper we propose an approach to the spatial implications of homeworking derived from the work of social theorist Henri Lefebvre. By highlighting the processes involved in the inherently contested and (re)constructed nature of space in the demarcated home / work environment we suggest a collapse of this demarcation and consider the impact of such a collapse on questions relat...

An uncalibrated solar hydrogen Lyman α profile was obtained with the use of the spectrometer on SOHO. The collection of the light scattered by the telescope permitted to average the profile over the full solar disk. The profile taken at the L1 Sun-Earth Lagrangian position is free of the central geocoronal absorption. Then, taking advantage of the absolute flux measured by the SOLSTICE/UARS spe...

Office settings and public places are indeed very different places. Whereas the development of mobile technologies has been informed by insights regarding the office the same cannot be said about the knowledge regarding public places. Still, mobile technologies are frequently used in public places. In this paper we focus on the problem of engaging with technology while others are present, which...

During the past year we have been engaged in an effort to develop a prototype community of fine-grained agents to support the orbit determination process for the SOHO [1] mission. This paper presents a high-level overview of what was accomplished.

In the present paper we report on the difference in angular sizes between radio-loud and radio-quiet CMEs. For this purpose we compiled these two samples of events using Wind/WAVES and SOHO/LASCO observations obtained during 1996-2005. It is shown that the radio-loud CMEs are almost two times wider than the radio-quiet CMEs (considering expanding parts of CMEs). Furthermore we show that the rad...

Smart homes of the future will have a number of different types of sensors. What types of sensors and how they will be used depends on the behaviour needed from the smart home. Using the sensors to automatically determine if a home is occupied can lead to a wide range of benefits. For example, it could trigger a change in the thermostat setting to save money, or even a change in security monito...

Since the late 1990s, vendors of integrated management tools called ERPs (enterprise resource planning) have found their primary market, mainly large companies, is saturated. To find new customers, they have begun to market these products to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (generally with about 100 to 500 employees) (Deep, Guttridge, Dani & Burns, 2007; Muscatello, Small & Chen, 2003). Howe...

This work is dedicated to the study, in the framework of known models of coronal loops, of cold long loops observed in several spectral lines by SOHO. In particular an observation made by SOHO/CDS in the O V (629.73 A) line show a very high speed ow along a loop. The comparison with steady state siphon ow loop models leads to the conclusion that such loop cannot be in steady state; in particula...