The international illegal trade of rare flora and fauna objects has long been an acute issue. At the same time, a significant volume smuggled species animals plants falls on Russian Federation. In order to counter criminal encroachments against endangered aquatic biological resources, amendments were made legislation, including Article 226.1. Criminal Code Federation, in accordance with which l...

In the last few years, the international work on Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCS) underlined new needs for open educational resources (OER) management within the context of the Web of Data. First, within MOOCs, all (or at least most) resources must be open and available on the Web through URIs, including the MOOCs themselves. Second the evolution of research and practice in the field of OER...

While software development teams are becoming more and more distributed around the globe, most software development methodologies used by global teams prescribe selfmanaging teams. Transformational leadership is the key to successful information systems development and use for competitive advantage. Yet, little is known about transformational leadership in self-managing global information syste...

The Grid supports the sharing and coordinated use of resources in dynamic heterogeneous distributed environments. The effective use of a Grid requires the definition of an approach to manage the heterogeneity of the involved resources that can include computers, data, network facilities and software tools provided by different organizations. This issue get more importance when complex applicati...

Abstract Common goods are those natural or man-made resources that serve all members of a particular community and its institutions. Unlike private such as cars mobile phones, have free access to commons, i.e., the cannot simply be fenced off. As result, tend overused, leading loss welfare-the tragedy commons. In this chapter, we discuss concept why it is relevant global local environmental pro...

for more than a decade, academic libraries have been wrestling with the thorny issue of managing the acquisition of electronic resources. where are we in the continuum from paper lists to vendor-designed management systems? this paper takes a look at several in-house initiatives around the country, commenting on the successes and failures of the homegrown programs built to track. update and man...

Part I of this paper applies the principles of the philosophy of science and the derived scientific method to analyze the foundational concepts and core proposition of the ResourceBased View (RBV) as popularized by Barney (1986, 1991, 1997). This analysis identifies seven fundamental conceptual deficiencies and logic problems in Barney’s conceptualization of “strategically valuable resources” a...