Against this backdrop and through several exemplary cases around the world, this paper intends to highlight that women entrepreneurs have made some gains and its emerging role in the rural African setup given the imminent global economic crisis. The market for e-business and e-commerce is, at least potentially, has strengthened their ability to more effectively compete even in the domestic mark...

The different instantiations of the SmartKom demonstration system offer a broad range of application functions and sophisticated dialogue capabilities. We provide a first look at the final SmartKom prototype from the point of view of the end user. In particular, a typical interaction sequence will be presented in order to illustrate the functionality of the integrated multimodal dialogue system.

Children's maternal, self, and marital representations were examined in 46 children 3 1/2 to 7 years old using the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Children drawn from agencies serving battered women expressed fewer positive representations of their mothers and themselves, were more likely to portray interparental conflict as escalating, and were more avoidant and less coherent in their narratives...