A turning point in European administrative and documentary practices was traditionally associated, most famously by Robert-Henri Bautier, with the monarchies of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. By summarizing previous research in this field, as well as by using both published and unpublished sources, this article intends to underline an earlier process of transition connected...

This paper examines the demand for import documentary credit in Lebanon. Five explanatory variables are selected that stand respectively for risk, price, size, conjecture, and availability of credit. As expected, the long run elasticities are significantly higher than the short run ones. Risk has an adverse impact. Interest rate elasticities, or price elasticities, are all negative and statisti...

«Application of a symbolico-connectionist approach for the design of a highly interactive documentary database interrogation system with on-line learning capabilities» Proceedings of CIKM 94-Gaithersburg (USA)-to be published.

Study the human-computer interaction is essential for students of computer science related courses since it professionally will produce systems dedicated to different profiles of end users. Therefore, this article explores what should be taught in the context of IHC on computing courses, as well as identifies teaching strategies for the area. Therefore, initially is presented a documentary rese...