[en] This report sets out the issues that are raised by global warming in the area of relations between generations, and suggests directions where research is needed. It is intended to prepare the way by mapping the territory. This is an area where the work of philosophers and economists overlaps. Generally, each discipline has simply ignored the other, and when there has been some communication there has also often been some misunderstanding. This report tries to bring together work in the two disciplines. (author)

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[en] The currently dominant pattern of rural development projects is characterized by centrally-controlled, top-bottom schemes. The local sociopolitical structure and the fit of development to local customs and needs are given little attention. The major statement made in this work is the need for technological implementation which is sensitive to its socio-economic context in the case of the introduction of novel uses of the biomass potential of Europe. A learning process approach is introduced as the alternative that could build up a low-cost, sustainable use of biomass technologies. In this context, the identification of the decision-making procedures and centers, as well as the understanding of the principal actors and their interrelations, is of paramount importance to the development of fruitful and socially acceptable biomass utilization policies. (author)

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[en] Fractal and self similarity of complex networks have attracted much attention in recent years. The fractal dimension is a useful method to describe the fractal property of networks. However, the fractal features of mobile social networks (MSNs) are inadequately investigated. In this work, a box-covering method based on the ratio of excluded mass to closeness centrality is presented to investigate the fractal feature of MSNs. Using this method, we find that some MSNs are fractal at different time intervals. Our simulation results indicate that the proposed method is available for analyzing the fractal property of MSNs. (paper)

[en] In reviewing the literature and industry reports, a number of organizations have approached KM metrics from a Balanced Scorecard, Intellectual Capital (e.g., Skandia’s Intellectual Capital Navigator), Activity-Based Costing, or other borrowed approaches from the accounting and human resources disciplines. Liebowitz in his edited book, Making Cents Out of Knowledge Management (Scarecrow Press, 2008), shows case studies of organizations trying to measure knowledge management success. A few methodologies have examined ways to measure return on knowledge, such as Housel and Bell’s Knowledge Value-Added (KVA) methodology (Housel and Bell, 2001). Liebowitz analysed over 80 publications on knowledge management metrics, whereby KM metrics can be divided into system measures, output measures, and outcome measures. (author)

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