This paper discusses the history of emerging infectious diseases, risk communication and perception, and the Supercourse lectures as means to strengthen the concepts and definition of risk management and global governance of zoonosis. The paper begins by outlining some of the key themes and issues in infectious diseases, highlighting the way which historical analysis challenges ideas of the 'ne...

Many businesses have made or are making significant investments in data warehouses and marts that are designed to support a myriad of decision support systems (DSS). Due to the newness of data warehousing and related DSS (DWDSS), the nature of the decision support provided to DSS users and the importance of metadata and explanations within that support have not been documented. An exploratory c...

Why do some victims elicit outpourings of sympathy from those who are unaffected, while others do not? The authors propose a theoretical framework for making sense of the vicissitudes of sympathy based on the interaction between two qualitatively different mental processes. One, which the authors term “sympathy,” is caring but immature and irrational. The other process, which the authors term “...

Déjà vu is the striking sense that the present situation feels familiar, alongside the realization that it has to be new. According to the Gestalt familiarity hypothesis, déjà vu results when the configuration of elements within a scene maps onto a configuration previously seen, but the previous scene fails to come to mind. We examined this using virtual reality (VR) technology. When a new imme...

IP phones are an essential component of any VoIP infrastructure. The hardware constraints and newness of these devices, as compared to mature desktop or server systems, lead to software development focused primarily on features and functionality rather than security and dependability. While several automated tools exist to test the security of IP phones, these tools have limitations and can not...

Prominence variation is known to be determined in part by discourse factors, such as the givenness or newness of the discourse entity being realized to the discourse. However, few empirical studies have been carried out to explain a wider range of phenomena occurring in natural speech corpora. In this study, corpus linguistics methods are applied to a task-oriented monologue corpus to show that...

M–commerce is a new area arising from the marriage of electronic commerce with emerging mobile and pervasive computing technology. The newness of this area—and the rapidness with which it is emerging—makes it difficult to analyze the technological problems that m–commerce introduces—and, in particular, the security and privacy issues. This situation is not good, since history has shown that sec...

‘Innovation’ has become a central metaphor of contemporary capitalism, global symbol hope and future. In this paper, I examine the continuations transformations colonial mythologies within on-going expansions innovation economy. Drawing from Walter Benjamin's discussions on modernity as time hell, discuss how ‘eternally returns’ under cloak ‘newness’. The material paper consists popular literat...