Document-management is becoming a central and troubling issue for typical users of computers; and the need for more intuitive, flexible, and effective management-systems is becoming more and more evident. This paper reports on work to develop DocPlayer, a solution inspired by the control-metaphor of media-players. First, other attempts to address the document-management problem are reviewed; th...

HINDRIK MULDER,1,2 SAMUEL GEBRE-MEDHIN,3,4 CHRISTER BETSHOLTZ,4 FRANK SUNDLER,2 AND BO AHRÉN5 1Section for Molecular Signaling, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund; 2Section for Neuroendocrine Cell Biology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Lund University, SE-221 85 Lund; 3Section for Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Department of Physiological Scien...

Though IT usage has been identified as a significant construct, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how IT is used by different organizational members. In this paper, we examine the key organizational, external environmental, and IT-related factors that influence IT usage in organizations across management and non-management levels. Based on data from over 500 functional managers, w...

People have different ways of coping with stress, and some turn to cigarettes. It sounds as though you already know that smoking may not be the best way for you to deal with stress. However, as you also pointed out, quitting may continue to be a challenge. Keep in mind though, quitting doesn?t necessarily mean a one-time event; it may be a gradual process that involves a lot of commitment throu...

A MANET (mobile ad hoc network) is a self-configuring infrastructure-less network of mobile devices connected through a wireless medium. All the devices in MANET can move independently in any direction and frequently change its link to other devices. Each device can act as both a transmitter and receiver therefore MANET doesn't require a fixed network infrastructure. Self-configuring abili...

People have different ways of coping with stress, and some turn to cigarettes. It sounds as though you already know that smoking may not be the best way for you to deal with stress. However, as you also pointed out, quitting may continue to be a challenge. Keep in mind though, quitting doesn?t necessarily mean a one-time event; it may be a gradual process that involves a lot of commitment throu...

I fear I did not express myself as simply as I might have. My objection to Cao is that something must be ceded to Kuhn. One can of course try to oppose Kuhn’s thesis root and branch, but to do so one had better counter his concrete examples, or one had better present an equally persuasive and wide-ranging history, but to a di¤erent e¤ect. Perhaps Cao thinks his book provides just such an altern...

A new approach for vague risk analysis based on the ranking of trapezoidal vague sets is proposed. Firstly, a new method for ranking of vague sets is presented. Then, the proposed method is applied to developed a new method for dealing with vague risk analysis problems. This analysis helps us to find out the probability of failure of each components of combustion system, which could be used for...