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Credit Cycles
- Journal of Political Economy
, 1997
"... We construct a model of a dynamic economy in which lenders cannot force borrowers to repay their debts unless the debts are secured. In such an economy, durable assets play a dual role: not only are they factors of production, but they also serve as collateral for loans. The dynamic interaction betw ..."
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We construct a model of a dynamic economy in which lenders cannot force borrowers to repay their debts unless the debts are secured. In such an economy, durable assets play a dual role: not only are they factors of production, but they also serve as collateral for loans. The dynamic interaction
Human domination of Earth’s ecosystems
- Science
, 1997
"... Human alteration of Earth is substantial and growing. Between one-third and one-half interact with the atmosphere, with aquatic of the land surface has been transformed by human action; the carbon dioxide con- systems, and with surrounding land. Morecentration in the atmosphere has increased by near ..."
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are no exceotion. As the hu- These relativelv well-documented changes cannot install instruments on a tro~ical man population has and the power of in turn entrail; further alterations to;he mountain to collect evidence of land tians-technology has expanded, the scope and f~~nctioning of the Earth system, most no
The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research
- Journal of Political Economy
, 1959
"... I begin this essay by reflecting on my early paper (Nelson, 1859), and Ken’s (Arrow, 1962), as period pieces. These papers certainly have been influential in shaping the discussion of science and technology policy over the last forty years, at least among economists, but at the time they were writte ..."
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, and argue that the question of what should be private and what should be public about science and technology cannot be explored adequately without explicit consideration of mechanisms of funding, and of who is expected to do the work under what terms. I will focus particularly on the role of universities
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF TRAINING AND GRADUATION REPORTS.
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Video as a Technology for Informal Communication
- Communications of the ACM
, 1993
"... Collaborations in organizations thrive on communication that is informal because informal communication is frequent, interactive, and expressive. Informal communication is crucial for the coordination of work, learning an organization’s culture, the perpetuation of the social relations that underlie ..."
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that underlie collaboration, and, in general, any situation that requires communication to resolve ambiguity. Informal communication is traditionally mediated by physical proximity, but physical proximity cannot mediate in geographically distributed organizations. The research described here evaluates
Media will never influence learning.
- Educational Technology Research and Development,
, 1994
"... The purpose of this discussion is to explain and sharpen different points of view about the impact of media and attributes of media on learning, motivation and efficiency gains from instruction. This paper is an attempt to INTRODUCTION A Brief History of Media Research The claim of "no learnin ..."
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of media were primarily economic and that their use was "to develop the technology of instructional method" (p. 669). The Important Aspects of the Learning From Media Argument My early articles A Replaceability Challenge It may be useful to apply the following "armchair experimental
Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms
, 1997
"... alancing operation is not uniquely determined by the operation alone, since it depends on changes of state by deposit and withdraw operations that cannot be predicted or controlled. An object's operations return results that depend on changes of state controlled by unpredictable external action ..."
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actions. The growing pains of software technology are due to the fact that programming in the large is inherently interactive and cannot be expressed by or reduced to programming in the small. The behavior of airline reservation systems and other embedded systems cannot be expressed by algorithms
The stages of economic growth.
- Economic History Review , 2nd series 12,
, 1959
"... JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about J ..."
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about
The JPEG2000 Still Image Coding System: an Overview
, 2000
"... With the increasing use of multimedia technologies, image compression requires higher performance as well as new features. To address this need in the specific area of still image encoding, a new standard is currently being developed, the JPEC2000. It is not only intended to provide rate-distortion ..."
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With the increasing use of multimedia technologies, image compression requires higher performance as well as new features. To address this need in the specific area of still image encoding, a new standard is currently being developed, the JPEC2000. It is not only intended to provide rate
Querying the World Wide Web
, 1997
"... The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributed collection of documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technology currently used for searching the Web depends on sending information retrieval requests to "index servers" that index as many documents as they can find ..."
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The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributed collection of documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technology currently used for searching the Web depends on sending information retrieval requests to "index servers" that index as many documents as they can
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