What are the costs of litigation? David M. Trubek the author of The Costs of Ordinary Litigation breaks down litigation into "events" to answer this question. Through a study that randomly sampled civil cases from federal district and state courts, data has been complied and broken down into categories or stated differently into "events of litigation." [1] The study's data focuses on an attorne...

: In this paper we present the notion of “active documents”. The basic idea is that in the future, users of documents in any networked system should not just be able to communicate with other users, but also with documents. To put it differently, we believe that communication in networks should be understood in a more general sense than it usually is. Although our notion will, at first glance, ...

A common objection to the very idea of conceptual engineering is topic continuity problem: whenever one tries ‘reengineer’ a concept, only shifts attention away from concept another. Put differently, there no such thing as revision: there's replacement. Here, I show that compatible with Whether preserved in an act replacement simply depends on what being replaced (a tool or role) and under disc...

Testing of telecommunication systems is a major concern in industry and standardization. Therefore, the two major SDL tool vendors have integrated automatic test generation tools into their software development suites. While Telelogic has added Autolink to the Tau tools, former Verilog has extended ObjectGeode with TestComposer. Even though both tools are based on the same concepts, many featur...

In this paper I address myself to two issues concerning Polanyi’s epistemology. The first is that notwithstanding his critique of objectivism and his post-critical perspective, Polanyi remains firmly rooted in the tradition of the Enlightenment. To put this somewhat differently, I think that although he may be regarded as an early postmodernist, he may be seen also as someone who tried to do a ...

When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any corresponding increase in ability, this is called grade inflation. Conventional wisdom says that such grade inflation is unavoidable since it is essentially costless to award good grades. In this paper, we point out an effect driving into the opposite direction: Grade inflation...

I comment on a paper just appeared on JAFIB, aimed at providing an index quantifying the convenience of monitoring esophageal temperature during catheter ablation. The authors base their calculation on the data from four papers. I point out that the data from the two papers strongly against monitoring should be interpreted differently and I suggest how to retrieve more data for a more reliable ...

©2001 When I was young, I dreamed of being a writer, not a technologist. But, luck would have it otherwise. For the past twenty years, I have been intimately involved in the application of technology to marketing. Or, to put it a bit differently, I have been intimately involved in the application of technology to help companies understand their customer relationships, and as a result, more effe...

The scientific research institute is an knowledge concentrated organization which works for knowledge innovation. Due to the variety of understandings, people define the knowledge management differently. This thesis analyzes the research background, necessity, contents and range of knowledge management in agricultural scientific research institutionT the authors put forward the point that the c...