Much writing on party organisational development in post-communist East Central Europe has argued that, with the partial exception of successor parties to former regime parties, political parties in the region will be state-centred, low-membership organisations dominated by political elites, which loosely approximate to the ‘cartel’ and ‘electoral-professional’ models of party identified by som...

NATO’s enlargement into Central East Europe has been a lively debated topic for almost a decade. The highly variegated opinions and positions on this question in Europe and North America have ranged from angry denunciations, solid criticisms, serious doubts, guarded support to enthusiastic accolades. These contrasting attitudes underlined the flux and uncertainties as well as the divisibility o...

We are pleased to bring together such a great group of people to speak about various aspects of user behaviour and trends, an important topic for us all. We are sometimes guilty of assuming we know what users want. Those assumptions have been challenged in recent years by sophisticated evidence-based studies, the impact of which has been further heightened by digital systems that are responding...

[The history of Australian company law has attracted remarkably little attention in academic literature, perhaps because it has mainly been seen as a copy of English law with few, if any, noteworthy features. This article points out several interesting and significant aspects of the evolution of Australian company law and considers this evolution in the context of the economic development of co...

Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read will you be one of them? Of course, you should be. It will not make you feel so hard to enjoy your life. Even some people think that reading is a hard to do, you must be sure that you can do it. Hard will be felt when you have no ideas about what kind of book to read. Or...

At its May, 1997 meeting in Kyoto, CIE TC1-34 considered 4 proposed color appearance models for adoption as the CIECAM97s model. The ZLAB model was one of those considered. Although it was rejected by TC1-34 because of its simplicity, there are many situations (such as typical crossmedia image reproduction) for which a more complex model might not be necessary, or even useful. Thus, the ZLAB mo...

As Se en at ITS A 2 01 3! Why Light Roadways? Among the chief reasons for installing roadway lighting, according to guidance from the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES, 2000), is the potential for lighting to contribute to improved nighttime safety. And the logic that roadway lighting provides drivers with improved visibility and in turn greater distance and longer time to respond to potent...