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A digital telco approach can provide operators with the agility required to thrive in the Networked Society. This approach requires a transformation of both the front end and back end of an operator’s business. Applying Enterprise Architecture principles results in six key steps operators should take to bridge the gap between business, IT and networks and thereby secure an effective transformat...

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Web search performance and efficiency is critical for many people and organizations in emerging knowledge society. Nowadays, ontologies are being applied in a number of ontology-based information retrieval systems in order to improve the performance of these systems wherein quality of ontology plays an important role. An important body of work exists in both information retrieval evaluation and...

We predicted that adopting a performance-approach vs. performance-avoidance goal would lead to physiological responses characteristic of psychological states of challenge vs. threat appraisals, respectively. Furthermore, we predicted that these states would mediate the effects of goals on performance. Twenty-seven undergraduate females performed a task described as identifying either exceptiona...

http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/53/6/749 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0018720811419154 published online 14 September 2011 2011 53: 749 originally Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Elsa Eiriksdottir and Richard Catrambone Procedural Tasks to Enhance Performance, Learning, and Transfer Procedural Instructions, Principles, and...

In May 1999 members of the West Kent MedicoChirurgical Society visited the city of Thessaloniki, in Greece. As part of the activities, we organised a scientific meeting about historical medical subjects. It was suggested, that I, an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, should speak to our English colleagues about Sigmund Freud’s oral cancer. Many of those who attended the meeting wanted to see the p...

The present paper deals with the national specifics of the assessment aspect in the meaning of the words. A modern scientific paradigm considers the language as a cognitive tool of understanding the world and keeping and representing people’s experience and values which reflect the people’s vision of the world (“the world picture). Usually linguistics understands the language ...