forward. At first glance, it appears that the current e-discovery rules are potentially ripe for abuse, including submitting frivolous lawsuits that can cost the defendant organizations millions of dollars in personnel resources, time, and technical support costs, to an invasion of privacy of proprietary

for these systems, including training, planning, gaming and other purposes where the introduc-tion of the physical player may be too hazardous, too expensive or too frivolous to be tolerated. We present one such system, NPS-NET, a workstation-based, 3D visual simulator for virtual world ex

The print and the electronic media, and especially cinema and television, have shown African peoples and other people of color in comedic stances and in degrading ways. The depictions have suggested that African peoples are not interested in and do not care about serious matters, are frivolous

The idea that a seemingly frivolous activity such as play can promote children's literacy development is very intriguing and has prompted a large amount of research activity over the past several decades. In order to assess the status of this line of inquiry and provide guidance for future

While critics of Twitter, the most popular microblogging application, dismiss the service as frivolous, proponents tout a variety of educational, political and commercial uses. Drawing from social construction theories of technology, this research uses the grounded theory approach to analyze press

Many researchers in AI and cognitive science believe that the complexity of a behavioral description reflects the underlying information processing complexity of the mechanism producing the behavior. This paper explores the foundations of this complexity argument. We first distinguish two types

Few topics have been more researched in deaf education than literacy. However, despite the decades of research that have been devoted to improving the reading and writing rates of deaf students, there exist relatively few syntheses of the information. When meta-analytic research has been undertaken

on appropriate research and screening criteria, most of these complaints are ultimately settled or taken to trial, with a fairly good chance that the outcome will be favorable or at least satisfactory to the involved physician. At times, the legal system fails to ‘filter out ’ frivolous cases. Such cases can and

Using data from in-depth interviews with women who have exited violent relationships, attorneys, and practitioners/policy specialists, this research note explores the continuation of control as women encounter “paper abuse. ” The barrage of men’s frivolous lawsuits, false reports of child abuse

of research by the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) has shown that adult learners’ relatively poor attendance and high dropout rates do not usually occur for trivial or frivolous reasons (see Comings et al., 1999; 2000). Most adult attendance and persistence continued