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The Role of the Press and Communication Technology in Democratization: The Nigerian Story

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Optical Remote Sensing: Science and Technology

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 1998 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe’98, held in Uppsala, Sweden, in June 1998.
The 23 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully selected by the program committee. The papers address all current aspects of the Ada programming language; they are organized in sections on Ada 95 and Java, Ada 95 language and tools, distributed systems, real-time systems, case studies and experiments, software quality, software development, software architectures, and high integrity systems.This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 1998 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe’98, held in Uppsala, Sweden, in June 1998.
The 23 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully selected by the program committee. The papers address all current aspects of the Ada programming langu… More >>

Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe ‘98: 1998 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Uppsala, Sweden, June 8-12, …

emerged. First, are historical technologists who advocate an organizational competitive advantage is simulated from past inventions and innovations. Second, are futuristic technologists who proffer that organizations should adapt to nonlinear and disruptive technology. Within this train of thought are technologists who posit using technological situational happenstances (known as TSH) for innovative technologies. TSH encompasses all nonlinear spheres of technology (Christensen, Verlinden, & Westerman, 2002; Hirooka, 2003). Nonlinear refers to the ability of leaders, real estate brokers and technologists to infuse innovative technology effectively to the point of disrupting the existing systems and triggering new changes. Therefore, TSH is an enabler or a conduit in facilitating and deploying informational materials vertically or horizontally within and outside organizations for competitive advantages. TSH also permeates leadership styles and hierarchies within organizations.
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Leadership, Real Estate and Disruptive Technology: Technological Situational Happenstances

Topical areas such as optoelectronics in LANs and WANs, cable TV systems, and the global fiber-optic highway make this book essential reading for anyone who needs to keep up with the technology of modern data communications.

*Covers selection and application of the key technologies
*A down-to-earth introduction to a cutting-edge technology
*Covers all the main engineering applications with a minimum of mathsTopical areas such as optoelectronics in LANs and WANs, cable TV systems, and the global fiber-optic highway make this book essential reading for anyone who needs to keep up with the technology of modern data communications.

*Covers selection and application of the key technologies
*A down-to-earth introduction to a cutting-edge technology
*Covers all the main engineering applications with a minimum of maths… More >>

Optoelectronics and Fiber Optic Technology

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, held in Pathumthani, Thailand, in November 2006.
The 12 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service architecture, multicast, performance in WLAN, routing, and multihoming in mobile networks.This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, held in Pathumthani, Thailand, in November 2006.
The 12 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service architecture, multicast, performance in WLAN, routing, and multihoming in mobile networks…. More >>

Technologies for Advanced Heterogeneous Networks II: Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, Pathumthani, Thailand, November 28-30, … Networks and Telecommunications)

Some policymakers have concluded that the energy challenges facing the United States are so critical that a concentrated investment in energy research and development (R&D) should be undertaken. The Manhattan project, which produced the atomic bomb, and the Apollo program, which landed American men on the moon, have been cited as examples of the success such R&D investments can yield. Investment in federal energy technology R&D programs of the 1970s, in response to two energy crises, have generally been viewed as less successful than the earlier two efforts. This report compares and contrasts the three initiatives.

In 2008 dollars, the cumulative cost of the Manhattan project over 5 fiscal years was approximately $22 billion; of the Apollo program over 14 fiscal years, approximately $98 billion; of post-oil shock energy R&D efforts over 35 fiscal years, $118 billion. A measure of the nation’s commitments to the programs is their relative shares of the federal outlays during th… More >>

The Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program, and Federal Energy Technology R&D Programs: A Comparative Analysis

This book records the very first Working Conference of the newly established IFIP Working Group on Human-Work Interaction Design, which was hosted by the University of Madeira in 2006. The theme of the conference was on synthesizing sketches within different approaches to analysis and design of human-work interaction. Authors were encouraged to submit papers about design sketches- for interfaces, for organizations of work, etc. – that they themselves had worked on. During the conference, they presented the lessons they had learned from the design and evaluation process, citing reasons for why the designs worked or why they did not work. In this way, researchers, designers, and analysts confronted concrete design problems in complex work domains and used this unique opportunity to share their own design problems and solutions…. More >>

Human Work Interaction Design: Designing for Human Work: The first IFIP TC 13.6 WG Conference: Designing for Human Work, February 13-15, 2006, Madeira, … in Information and Communication Technology)

Flavour creation has always been an art but there is an increasing scientific and technological basis behind the various parts of the process.This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of flavour technology, covering sources of flavour, flavour creation/formulation, flavour generation/production, flavour delivery, flavour analysis and flavour regulation. A generic, science-based approach is adopted, rather than an approach based on recipes or commodities.Flavour creation has always been an art but there is an increasing scientific and technological basis behind the various parts of the process.This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of flavour technology, covering sources of flavour, flavour creation/formulation, flavour generation/production, flavour delivery, flavour analysis and flavour regulation. A generic, science-based approach is adopted, rather than an approach based on recipes or commodities…. More >>

Food Flavour Technology

The new organizational paradigms of global cooperation and collaboration require new ways and means for their support. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can and will play a significant role in this support. However, the many currently available and seemingly conflicting solutions, the confusing terminology, the lack of business justification, and last but not least the insufficient understanding of the technology by the end user community has significantly hampered the large scale application of the relevant ICT support and thereby the acceptance of the new paradigms.
Many of these issues have been addressed in the workshops of the international initiative on Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration, which has been supported by the European IST Programme and NIST. The main subjects of the initiative: relations between knowledge management and business process modeling, interoperability of business processes and process models, enterprise engineering and i… More >>

Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration: Building International Consensus