Abstract There is a crisis discussed in the discipline of Information Systems. Those who perceive such a crisis to exist are by no means agreed, as to its nature and origins. Our inquiry shows that there are a three distinct “crises” being debated. The first of these relates to the Substance and boundaries of the discipline itself and if it is even a discipline at all. Another “crisis” relates to

This text analyses the development of the Czech national identity during the process of Europeanization of the Holocaust after the end of the Cold War and collapse of the communist system in Central and Eastern Europe.

This study describes the everyday life of a group of drug users during a few years in the early 1990s. The material, which has been collected through ethnographic fieldwork in the milieus where the drug users spend their time, is primarily based on observations, conversations, and in-depth interviews. Everyday life is studied from three aspects: The action aspect , that is, questions concerning w

The point of departure in this chapter is that citizenship is constructed and re-constructed through both formal regulations and societal practice. Hence citizenship is understood both as formal relations between the state and the individual, manifested in constitutional rights and duties, but also as a social citizenship that depends on prevailing power relations. Being included as a citizen thus

Popular Abstract in English Proteins are a big biological molecules that help cells to function. Proteins play important roles in all vital processes of the living cell, transporting molecules, speeding up chemical reactions, supporting structure of other proteins and the cell, helping the cell to move. Various disease-causing agents (e.g. bacteria and viruses) are constant threat to us. It is thMost drugs act on biomacromolecules. The Cost of developing new drugs is very high. A method to accurately predict binding affinities would be very useful. We have studied molecular mechanics with generalised Born and surface--area solvation (MM/GBSA) and alchemical free energy perturbation methods (FEP) for use in calculations of ligand binding energies. For the MM/GBSA method we have tested: Ca

One of the most important goals on solar collector development is to increase the system’s annual performance without increasing overproduction. The studied collector is formed by a compound parabolic reflector which decreases the collector optical efficiency during the summer period. Hence, it is possible to increase the collector area and thus, the annual solar fraction, without increasing the o

Capillary porous systems. Thermodynamical equilibrium and stability water meniscus. Mathematical treatment. Effect of salts, osmotic pressure.

In 1999 Sweden and Denmark were physically, linked for the first time by, a bridge bringing the countries even closer. The bridge connects the capital area of Denmark and the south part of Sweden in an area called the Oresund region. At a national level there is a mutual political interest to create an integrated market in the Oresund region and in a wider perspective the bridge is a physical cont

This paper describes the active burst distance for convolutional codes. The unequal error protection for information sequences are used to formulate a theorem on the error-correcting capability of the generator matrix and set state paths in the encoder state-transition diagram correspond to code sequences. Therefore the active-distance concepts are used to characterize the error patterns