This paper seeks to develop the motivations and aspirations underlying the primary theme for ICIS 2006 – ‘IT for Underserved Communities’. In so doing the case is made that those keen to mobilize and harness the emancipatory and empowering potential of Information & Communications Technology for community-based projects should consider that the very existence of this technology opens up alterna...

Almost anyone who develops an interest in fonts is bound to be overwelmed by the bewildering variety of letterforms available. The number of fonts available from commercial suppliers like Adobe, URW, LinoType and others runs into the thousands. A recent catalog issued by FontShop [Truong et al., 1998] alone lists over 25.000 different varieties.1 And somehow, although the differences of the ind...

Observations of the movements of air in underground passages have a long and fascinating history. Between 4000 and 1200 BC, European miners dug tunnels into chalk deposits searching for flint. Archaeological investigations at Grimes Graves in the south of England have shown that these early flint miners built brushwood fires at the working faces—presumably to weaken the rock. However, those Neo...

A review is presented of how one defines emerging contaminants and what can be included in that group of contaminants which is preferably termed "contaminants of emerging concern". An historical perspective is given on the evolution of the issues surrounding emerging contaminants and how environmental scientists have tackled this issue. This begins with global lead contamination from the Romans...

This article applies the theoretical framework of 'ritual failure', a sub-discipline of ritual criticism, to Paul's discussion of circumcision in his letter to the Galatians, Philippians and Romans. It is argued that the application of this theoretical perspective clarifies the dynamics at stake and provides a new way of understanding the development in Paul's position regarding circumcision. Th...

We show that the minimal set of necessary ingredients to construct explicit, four-dimensional de Sitter solutions from IIA string theory at tree level are O6-planes, nonzero Romans mass parameter, form fluxes, and negative internal curvature. To illustrate our general results, we construct such minimal simple de Sitter solutions from an orientifold compactification of compact hyperbolic spaces....

Translating the Bible has never been an easy task, least of all at times theological controversy. A New Latin translation by Erasmus Rotterdam, executed on eve Reformation, met much criticism philological and level. Franciscus Titelmans, a young, Franciscan scholar from Leuven, addressed in his Collationes quinque numerous issued regarding Epistle to Romans. This article focuses Romans 5:12. Ti...