This is the third report from the GridWeaver project. It describes how the LCFG and SmartFrog technologies have been combined, in prototype form, to create a largescale configuration system. First, we focus on the configuration aspects that must be modelled and examine how these are represented in the SmartFrog 2 language. Secondly, we discuss how the LCFG and SmartFrog systems have been combin...

There has been an explosion of interest in studying gene-environment interactions (GxE) as they relate to the development of psychopathology. In this article, I review different methodologies to study gene-environment interaction, providing an overview of methods from animal and human studies and illustrations of gene-environment interactions detected using these various methodologies. Gene-env...

In this paper, we introduce the Choquet-Pettis integral of set-valued mappings and investigate some properties and convergence theorems for the set-valued Choquet-Pettis integrals.

According to UNESCO's recent documents, sustainable development is the “ultimate goal of the Man-environment relationship”; thus, the whole educational process should be “reshaped for sustainable development.” In view of the extreme importance of their educational impact, such statements need to be discussed. To which conception of environment, of education and of sustainable development does t...

Over the past two decades, Germany experienced several periods of banking system instability rather than full-blown banking system crises. In this paper we introduce a continuous and forward-looking stability indicator for the banking system based on information on all financial institutions in Germany between 1995 and 2010. Explaining this measure by means of panel regression techniques, we id...

Different types of cooperative technologies can be used to support the process of collaborative knowledge acquisition in a course. In this paper we report our experience with the creation of a FAQ for a computer science course in parallel by using a web forum and a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment. The results allow comparing these two types of systems, but also raise some more general cons...

The neoclassical production function assumes that economic growth depends on exogenous factors of production centred on capital, labour and technology. However, residual variables, notably social capabilities and knowledge, are neglected. This study seeks to highlight that, in fact, they are key variables for understanding the economic growth and recent structural changes of an industrial clust...

There have been dramatic changes in business enterprise management since Internet technology has been widely applied. Worldwide network users can share all kinds of knowledge through the Internet. Knowledge has currently become a main part of manufacturing resources and a prerequisite for success in the production environment. Competitiveness and the resulting rewards can be obtained by taking ...