the debate over the contribution of the internet to democracy is farfrom settled. some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the us to argue thatthe internet will restore the public sphere. others claim that the internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. this paper argues f...

Technical people know the tension created by accelerated development cycles coupled with expanded feature sets. Likewise, managers have all experienced the frustration of proposing a critical competitive feature and having the technical staff stare in stunned silence. New features are easy to imagine, but not always easy to implement by next Friday. Over the last few years, as companies have be...

This paper describes an innovative scenario in teaching digital electronics at technical high schools. The course designed to improve students’ applied logic ability, practical thinking, creative thinking, and critical thinking. The students work in teams in order to solve initially simple technical problems by using simulations and by comparing various circuits, and then more complex technical...

While economic variables have been used extensively to forecast the U.S. bond risk premia, little attention has been paid to the use of technical indicators which are widely employed by practitioners. In this paper, we fill this gap by studying the predictive ability of using a variety of technical indicators vis-á-vis the economic variables. We find that the technical indicators have significa...

The ultimate aim when designing an assembly system is to make it strategically and operationally competitive. Competitive systems for manufacturing, especially assembly systems, have to cope with frequent changes of demands. The aim to have a short response time to customer demand, e.i. mass customization, requires assembly systems that are reliable, have high availability and have ability to p...

The article proposes a trimodal logical system that can express the strategic ability of coalitions to learn from their experience. main technical result is completeness proposed system.

Addressing challenges of maintaining social welfare and opportunity in the face of severe ecological pressures requires frameworks for addressing and governing long-term social-ecological change. This paper analyses what two recent frameworks could learn from each other. The first aims to understand transitions in socio-technical systems, by analysing dynamic interactions between three levels: ...