The history of Plan Calcul―France's first information technology program, launched by de Gaulle's government in 1966―has been well described the literature; however, few studies investigate arsenal system program depth. Drawing from Calcul's archives, this article is to demonstrate that, context Cold War foreign policy, French government, initially aiming avoid an system, still became program's...

as spending on it rises steeply, organizations become increasingly technology-dependent and, consequently, they become highly vulnerable to the risks of it failure. the latest report on the failure of many complex it projects to deliver key benefits on time and to target cost and specification was published jointly by the royal academy of engineering and the british computer society. one of the...

† National Institute of Standards and Technology. ‡ National Institutes of Health. * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]. Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8543, and Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, B...

objective: in the this research, effective factors on digital libraries’ development in central libraries of public universities in tehran have been identified from these libraries administrator’s view.method: this study is applied, based on descriptive-analytical method. for data collection we used researcher-made questionnaire, based on the digital library federation definition (including hum...

*Dept. of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 ([email protected]). The author thanks Nava Ashraf, Daniel Benjamin, Gabriel Carroll, and James Choi for insightful feedback. Outstanding research assistance was provided by Layne Kirshon, Peter Maxted, and Sean Wang. This research was supported by the Pershing Square Fund for Research on the Foundations of Human Behavior and the N...

☆ Funding was provided by NIH/NIA (R01AG024119 a ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Gurven). 1090-5138/$ – see front matter © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Al http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.09.002 Article history: Initial receipt 31 May 2013 Final revision received 7 September 2013