Authors: M. Degenaar.
Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 1996-02-29
Edition: 1

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    Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube? This was the question which the Irish politician and scientist William Molyneux posed in 1688 to John Locke. Molyneux's question has intrigued a wide variety of intellectuals for three centuries. Those who have attempted to solve it include Berkeley, Reid, Leibniz, Voltaire, La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot, Muller, Helmholtz, William James and Gareth Evans. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the discussion about Molyneux's problem. It will be of interest to historians of both philosophy and psychology. ...

Authors: Joshua J. Franklin.
Digital, 34 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University
Publication Date: 2004-09-22


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    This digital document is an article from Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal, published by Rutgers University on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 9976 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Upgrading the national power grid: electric companies need an economic incentive to invest in new technology.
Author: Joshua J. Franklin
Publication: Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Rutgers University
Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Page: 159(28)

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Authors: Richard Heeks.
Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2001-03-19
Edition: 1

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    Including practical guidance and analytical insights, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform. Dicussion of key topics is complemented by case studies from the US, UK, Europe and developing countries....

Authors:
Hardcover, 300 pages
Publisher: IGI Publishing
Publication Date: 2007-12-07


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    Virtual technology is increasingly prevalent in all spheres of daily life, including infiltration into governmental policies, processes, infrastructures, and frameworks. E-Government Research: Policy and Management provides scholars and practitioners with a critical mass of research on the integration, management, implications, and application of e-government. Covering such issues as e-government adoption and diffusion; social and performance issues of e-government; and information security, privacy, and policy, this book is an essential resource to any library collection....

Authors: Lance Taylor. Rudiger von Arnim.
Paperback, 62 pages
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
Publication Date: 2007-12


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    This hard-hitting research report presents a rigorous critique of the most widely used trade models based on computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The authors present concise analytical arguments explaining the fundamental weaknesses of typical CGE models. They show that these models tend to make unrealistic assumptions about the macro-economy and do not allow an accurate estimation of the welfare gains that trade liberalization is supposed to induce.

The report appeals for honest simulation strategies showing a variety of possible outcomes, which would enable policymakers to assess the different scenarios for themselves.
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Authors: Kennan Ferguson.
Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Date: 2007-02-28


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    Drawing on recent contributions to philosophy, economics, cultural studies, feminism, psychology, and anthropology, The Politics of Judgment demonstrates how modern political identities depend upon and are formed by aesthetic judgment....

Authors: Marc Sacks.
Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Quorum Books
Publication Date: 1994-09-30


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    Developments in industry in recent years have made employee learning a critical factor in organizations' success. The ever-faster pace of technological development and the variety of tasks that business professionals must perform mean that on-the-job learning is a constant, too quick and vital to be left to training departments. And yet, management knows too little about how workers learn on the job and does not give sufficient time and effort to understanding this process. As learning is largely left to chance, it is amazing that it happens at all, and well enough to enable workers to be productive and not to destroy each other's work. This book explores the daily work lives and learning experiences of programmers and other professionals in the computer-software industry. The book focuses on the staff of one small software firm, allowing workers to tell their own stories, describing their work and their use of all the resources available to them in learning the complex systems they are required to develop and maintain. Based in qualitative sociological method, it is an ethnography of a business setting as well as a study of learning. After describing the professional world in which programmers work, the book introduces the company to be discussed and the backgrounds of the participants in the study. Then, proceeding from the environment to the systems to be learned, the author schematizes all of the resources professionals use on the job--their experiences and thought processes, documentation, their colleagues, the computer, and the software system itself--as learning tools. All of this material is then related to academic models of learning style, which are mostly found not to be very relevant, as they are not grounded in the life experiences of workers. The author advocates that professionals' learning be modeled in context, that training be developed from experience rather than from theory, and that management strive to build a workplace and an organizational culture as conducive as possible to employees' continual learning....

Authors: Andreas Mitrakas.
Hardcover, 340 pages
Publisher: IGI Global
Publication Date: 2007-01-15


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    As e-government applications are coming of age, security has been gradually becoming more demanding a requirement for users, administrators, and service providers. The increasingly widespread use of Web services facilitates the exchange of data among various e-government applications, and paves the way for enhanced service delivery. Secure E-Government Web Services addresses various aspects of building secure e-government architectures and services, and presents the views of experts from academia, policy, and the industry to conclude that secure e-government Web services can be deployed in an application-centric and interoperable way. Secure E-Government Web Services presents the promising area of Web services, shedding new light onto this innovative area of applications, and responding to the current and upcoming challenges of e-government security....

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Paperback, 434 pages
Publisher: Center for Transatlantic Relations, Jhu-Sais
Publication Date: 2006-02-01


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    The world stands at the crossroads of development of the network society. Yet current social systems stall the dynamics of creativity. Is government ready to accept democracy of communication? Are economics players aware of the need to redefine property rights? Jorge Sampaio, President of the Portugese Republic, invited prominent researchers and politicians from the U.S., EU and South America to examine the opportunities and challenges of the network society--and to offer recommendations for policy....

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Hardcover, 145 pages
Publisher: IOS Press
Publication Date: 2008-05-15


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    The one issue touched on repeatedly by the contributors of this publication is the difficulty of arriving at a definition of cyber terrorism. A NATO Office of Security document cautiously defines it as "a cyber attack using or exploiting computer or communication networks to cause sufficient destruction or disruption to generate fear or to intimidate a society into an ideological goal." But the cyber world is surely remote from what is recognized as terrorism: the bloody attacks and ethnic conflicts, or, more precisely, the politically-motivated "intention to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government..." (UN report, "Freedom from Fear", 2005).It is hard to think of an instance when computer code has physically harmed anyone. Yet a number of contributors show that exactly such events, potentially on a huge scale, can be expected. For example attacks on critical infrastructure, in particular on SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems which control physical processes in places like chemical factories, dams and power stations. A part of the publication examines cyber terrorism in the proper sense of the term and how to respond in terms of technology, awareness, and legal/political measures. However, there is also the related question of responding to the terrorist presence on the Internet (so-called 'terrorist contents'). Here the Internet is not a weapon, but an important tool for terrorists' communications (coordination, training, recruiting), and information gathering on the targets of planned attacks....