Hosted articles 1998

Books received (1998-12-01)
Shorter Notice (1998-12-01)
Yemen & Eritrea: friends once more? (1998-12-01)
Technology, Open Learning and Distance Education A. W. (Tony) Bates London and New York, Routledge, 1995, vii + 266 pp., AU$45.00 (pbk), ISBN 0 415 11682 1 (hbk), ISBN 0 415 12799 8 (pbk) (1998-12-01)
Burkina Faso in the winds of liberalisation (1998-12-01)
Knowledge, Technology Transfer and Foresight Annamária Inzelt and Reinhard Coenen (Eds) Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1996, xvii + 250 pp., US$J49.00, ISBN 0 792 34274 7 (1998-12-01)
Media & democracy in Southern Africa (1998-12-01)
Examining myths of a democratic media (1998-12-01)
Resolving Conflict Between Cultural and Trade Policies: The Case of Australian Content on Television (1998-12-01)
IUlproving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering Michael J. Reiss and Roger Straughan Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1996, x + 288 pp., AU$39.25 h.b., ISBN 0 521 45441 7 (1998-12-01)
Rwanda & the media: imagery, war & refuge (1998-12-01)
Editorial working group (1998-12-01)
A New Theory of Innovation? (1998-12-01)
Radicalism, relevance & the future of ROAPE (1998-12-01)
The Econonllcs of Conununication and Infortnation Donald M. Lamberton (Ed.) Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 1996, xxviii+ 549 pp., £ 115, ISBN 1 85898 294 4 (1998-12-01)
Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins Harmondsworth, UK, Viking, 1996, xi + 308 pP., $19.95 (Pb) ISBN 0 14 026302 0 (1998-12-01)
The Sources of Economic Growth Richard R. Nelson Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1996, vi + 328 pp., US$39.95, ISM 0 674 82145 9 (1998-12-01)
Reform or re‐colonisation? the overhaul of African television (1998-12-01)
Greed or need? Genetically modified crops (1998-12-01)
The Knowing Nation: A Framework for Public Policy in a Post-industrial Knowledge Economy (1998-12-01)
Convergence: Integrating Media, Infonnation and Conununication Thomas F. Baldwin, D. Stevens McVoy and Charles Steinfield (Eds) Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi, Sage, 1996, xviii + 430 pp., £40.00 (hbk), £17.99 (pbk), ISBN 0 8039 5904 4 (hbk) and ISBN 0 8039 5905 2 (pbk) (1998-12-01)
From Stearn to Space : Contributions of Mechanical Engineering to Canadian Development Andrew H. Wilson, (Ed.) Ottawa, Canada, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 1996, xi + 427 pp., CAN $25.00, ISBN 0 9680915 0 4 (1998-12-01)
Forbidden Fruit. An Analysis of Bootlegging, Uncertainty and Learning in Corporate R&D Peter Augsdorfer Aldershot, UK, Attebury, 1996, xi + 225 pp., UK £35.00, ISBN 1 85972 333 0 (1998-12-01)
Asia-Pacific Telecommunications USOs: Current Practice and Future Options (1998-12-01)
Journalism & armed conflict in Africa: the civil war in Sierra Leone (1998-12-01)
Whose news? Control of the media in Africa (1998-12-01)
COInputer Technology and Social Issues G. David Garson Harrisburg, USA, Idea Publishing Group, 1995, 444 pp., US$59.95, ISBN 1 87829 28 4 (1998-12-01)
Electronic Mail Jacob Palme Boston, Artech House, 1995, vii + 267 pp., US$71.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 89006 802 X (1998-12-01)
Intelligent EnviroDIDents: Spatial Aspects of the InforIDation Revolution Peter Droege (Ed.) Amsterdam, North Holland, 1997, xviii + 727 pp., US$ 184.50, ISBN 0 444 82332 8 (1998-12-01)
The national institute of studies & research of Guinea‐Bissau endangered by war/O Institituto nacional de estudos e pesquisa da guine‐bissau posto em perigo pela guerra (1998-12-01)
The Actual and Potential Use of Information Technology in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (1998-12-01)
The Africa centre in London (1998-12-01)
Civilizing Cyberspace: Policy, Power and the Information Superhighway Steven E. Miller New York, ACM Press, 1996, xvii + 411 pp., AU$46.95, ISBN 0 201 84760 4 (1998-12-01)
Science, Technology and Society: An Introduction Martin Bridgstock, David Burch, John Forge, John Laurent and Ian Lowe Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1998, xii + 288 pp., AU$29.95, ISBN 0 521 58735 2 (1998-12-01)
Japanese Organizational Knowledge Creation in Anglo-American Environments (1998-12-01)
The contradictions of broadcasting reform in post‐apartheid South Africa (1998-12-01)
Case Study of a Software Structure for a 3D-Audio-Device (1998-11-01)
Audible Information Design in the New York City Subway System: A Case Study (1998-11-01)
A Spatial Auditory Display for the CyberStage (1998-11-01)
Sound Retrieval with Intuitive Verbal Expressions (1998-11-01)
A Principled Methodology for the Specification and Design of Non-Visual Widgets (1998-11-01)
Using Sonic Hyperlinks in Web-TV (1998-11-01)
LiteFoot - Auditory Display of Footwork (1998-11-01)
Data Collection and Analysis Techniques for Evaluating the Perceptual Qualities of Auditory Stimuli (1998-11-01)
An Investigation of Using Music to Provide Navigation Cues (1998-11-01)
International Conference on Auditory Display - Index (1998-11-01)
Acoustic Rendering as Support for Sustained Attention during Biomedical Procedures (1998-11-01)
‘Observing’ the Workplace Soundscape: Ethnography and Auditory Interface Design (1998-11-01)
Sonically-Enhanced Drag and Drop (1998-11-01)
A Simulation Approach to the Design and Evaluation of Auditory Interfaces in a High Speed Train Driving Cab. (1998-11-01)
After Direct Manipulation - Direct Sonification (1998-11-01)
Using Earcons and Icons in Categorisation Tasks to Improve Multimedia Interfaces (1998-11-01)
The Use of Non-Speech Sounds in Non-Visual Interfaces to the MS-Windows GUI for Blind Computer Users (1998-11-01)
Surgical Navigation System and Method Using Audio Feedback (1998-11-01)
Synthesising Moving Sounds (1998-11-01)
Towards some Organising Principles for Musical Program Auralisations (1998-11-01)
Ad-hoc synthesis of auditory icons (1998-11-01)
‘The Sound of Silence’: A Preliminary Experiment Investigating Non-Verbal Auditory Representations in Telephone-Based Automated Spoken Dialogues (1998-11-01)
Do Localised Auditory Cues in Group Drawing Environments matter? (1998-11-01)
N » 2: Multi-speaker Display Systems for Virtual Reality and Spatial Audio Projection (1998-11-01)
Speech Intelligibility in Adverse Conditions in Recorded Virtual Auditory Environments (1998-11-01)
Effect of 2D versus 3D spatialisation on the identification of everyday sounds : a preliminary study (1998-11-01)
Sound Traffic Control: An Interactive 3-D Audio System for Live Musical Performance (1998-11-01)
Sound + Image in Computer-Based Design: Learning from Sound in the Arts (1998-11-01)
Making Progress With Sounds - The Design & Evaluation Of An Audio Progress Bar (1998-11-01)
Musical Grammars as the Basis of Non-Speech Audio Communication (1998-11-01)
AB – Web : Active audio browser for visually impaired and blind users (1998-11-01)
A Pedagogy of Creative Thinking based on Sonification of Visual Structures and Visualization of Aural Structures (1998-11-01)
A Formal Theory for the Views-a Relationship (1998-09-01)
Trade and Intellectual Property: Some Observations (1998-09-01)
Editorial working group (1998-09-01)
The formal development of a Windows interface (1998-09-01)
The link between patenting of life forms, Genetic Engineering & Food insecurity (1998-09-01)
TRIPS, Cultural Politics and Law Reform (1998-09-01)
Let nature's harvest continue African counter-statement to Monsanto (1998-09-01)
Demilitarisation, disarmament & development in Southern Africa (1998-09-01)
Intellectual Property and Trade: Economic Perspectives (1998-09-01)
Book notes (1998-09-01)
Ethiopia/Eritrea conflict (1998-09-01)
Intellectual Property Disputes and the Supercourt of the World Trade Organisation: The Case for a New Model of Dispute Resolution (1998-09-01)
Competition over Competition Policy for International Trade and Intellectual Property (1998-09-01)
Sudan: international responses to war in the Nuba mountains (1998-09-01)
Investigating Miraculous Specifications (1998-09-01)
Angola: the peace is not yet fully won (1998-09-01)
Property Rights in Information: The Trade Paradigm (1998-09-01)
‘Dictated trade: the case against the Africa growth & opportunity Act’ (1998-09-01)
A Tale of Two Proofs (1998-09-01)
Computers and the Sociology of Mathematical Proof (1998-09-01)
The Role of Intellectual Property Law in Regional Commercial Unions in Europe and Asia (1998-09-01)
A CSP Model for Hybrid Automata (1998-09-01)
IO-refinement in Z (1998-09-01)
Dimensions and Dichotomy in Metamodeling (1998-09-01)
Specification and Refinement in General Correctness (1998-09-01)
An object-oriented formal specification of a configuration language for railway interlockings (1998-09-01)
Guerre absurde entre l'ethiopie et l'erythrée (1998-09-01)
Books received (1998-09-01)
Why? The eritrean‐Ethiopian conflict (1998-09-01)
Trade, Competition and Intellectual Property (1998-09-01)
3rd BCS-FACS Northern Formal Methods Workshop - Index (1998-09-01)
African debt hoax (1998-09-01)
Statement from civil society & religious organisations of east & central Afrca regarding the escalating violent conflict in the great lakes region (1998-09-01)
The Interface between Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law and Policy: An Australian Perspective (1998-09-01)
Design for equity: linking policy with objectives in South Africa's land reform (1998-09-01)
A tactic language for reasoning about Z specifications (1998-09-01)
Progressive academic economists & the Challenge of development in South Africa's decade of liberation (1998-09-01)
Britain's Africa policy: ethical, or ignorant? (1998-09-01)
A Semantics for Object-Oriented Systems (1998-09-01)
Guinea‐bissau: military fighting breaks out (1998-09-01)
On Partial-Function Application in Z (1998-09-01)
Extending the Test Template Framework (1998-09-01)
Recursion Diagrams: ideas for a Geometry of Formal Methods (1998-09-01)
The Intellectual Commons: A Rationale for Regulation (1998-09-01)
Intellectual Property Rights Protection and International Trade: An Economic Survey (1998-09-01)
Modular Semantics for Object-Oriented Models (1998-09-01)
Conflict, civil society and peace‐building in West Africa (1998-09-01)
The first babu memorial lecture (1998-09-01)
Strictly Level-Decreasing Logic Programs (1998-07-01)
Mathematics for Formal Methods, a proposal for education reform (1998-07-01)
TEACHING FORMAL METHODS: Lessons To Learn (1998-07-01)
A Case Study on Proving Transformations Correct: Data-Parallel Conversion (1998-07-01)
An Unbounded Nondeterministic Model for CSP-like Languages (1998-07-01)
Declarative View of Imperative Programs (1998-07-01)
2nd Irish Workshop on Formal Methods - Index (1998-07-01)
Translating Structured Database Schemas into Abstract Machines (1998-07-01)
Towards an Override in Topoi (1998-07-01)
Motivation for a New Semantics for Vagueness (1998-07-01)
Formal engineering of the bitonic sort using PVS (1998-07-01)
A Use Case Interpretation of B AMN (1998-07-01)
Facilitating Modular Property-Preserving Extensions of Programming Languages (1998-07-01)
Applications of the TAMPR Transformation System (1998-07-01)
Book reviews (1998-06-01)
The Future of Digital TV (1998-06-01)
Misunderstanding African politics: corruption & the governance agenda (1998-06-01)
The FCC Digital Television Standards Decision (1998-06-01)
Digital Television and Program Pricing (1998-06-01)
Strategies for change: women & politics in Eritrea & South Africa (1998-06-01)
Editorial working group (1998-06-01)
Commentary: ‘globalization’ & the regulation of Africa (1998-06-01)
ROAPE & the radical Africanist: what next? (1998-06-01)
The Digital Mystique: A Review of Digital Technology and its Application to Television (1998-06-01)
Culture, environment & the enemies of complexity (1998-06-01)
Kenya's democracy experiment: the 1997 elections (1998-06-01)
The Path from Analog HDTV to DTV in Japan (1998-06-01)
Current Africana 1996 (1998-06-01)
Radicalism, relevance & the future of ROAPE (1998-06-01)
Women in politics & gender equity in policy: South Africa & Uganda (1998-06-01)
Content and Services for the New Digital TV Environment (1998-06-01)
50,000 protest in UK to cancel third world debt (1998-06-01)
Digital Television in Europe and Japan (1998-06-01)
Economies' Role in the Race Toward Digital TV (1998-06-01)
Observations on some theories of current agrarian change (1998-06-01)
World Views directory of organizations: Africa‐related publishers and distributors (1998-06-01)
Innovation in mali (1998-06-01)
Snakes of the Sahyadri (1998-04-01)
Birds of the Sahyadri (1998-04-01)
Rare & Endemic Plants of the Sahyadri (1998-04-01)
Turtles & Lizards of the Sahyadri (1998-04-01)
Mammals of the Sahyadri (1998-04-01)
Institutional and Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Brazilian Science and Technology Sector—Setting a New Agenda, World Bank Discussion Paper No. 325, Lauritz Holm-Nielsen, Michael Crawford & Alcyone Saliba (Eds), Washington, DC, The World Bank, 1996, xv + 62 pp., US$7.95, ISBN 0 8213 3653 3 (1998-03-01)
Book notes (1998-03-01)
NHS: A Tool for the Automatic Construction of News Hypertext (1998-03-01)
Coupled Hierarchical IR and Stochastic Models for Surface Information Extraction. (1998-03-01)
The Wired Nation Continent: The Communication Revolution and Federating Australia, K. L. Livingston, Melbourne, Giford Unioersuy Press, 1997, xiv + 218 pp., AU$55.00, ISBN 0 19 553633 9 (1998-03-01)
Independence of Contributing Retrieval Strategies in Data Fusion for Effective Information Retrieval (1998-03-01)
Quantos somos? The second national population census of Mozambique (1998-03-01)
Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse, Richard R. John, Cambridge, MA, London, Haniard University Press, 1995, pp. xiii + 369, US$49.95, ISBN 0674 83338 4 (1998-03-01)
Editorial working group (1998-03-01)
An opportunity for Southern African women (1998-03-01)
Text-Image Interaction for Image Retrieval and Semi-Automatic Indexing (1998-03-01)
Three steps forward, two steps back: ideology & urban ecology in South Africa (1998-03-01)
Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure, Brian Kahin & Janet Abbate (Eds), Cambridge, MA and London, The MIT Press, 1995, xiv + 654 pp., US$35.00, ISBN 0 262 61117 1 (1998-03-01)
Losing Lomé: the potential impact of the commission guidelines on the ACP non‐least developed countries (1998-03-01)
Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies, Tom Griffiths & Libby Robin (Eds), Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1997, 248 pp., AU$29.95, ISBN 0522 84793 5 (1998-03-01)
Information Security—The Next Decade, Jan H.P. Eloff & Sebastian H. von Solms (Eds), London, Chapman & Hall, 1995, viii+ 625 pp., UK £69.00, ISBN 0 412 640201 (1998-03-01)
The Relationship between IR and Multimedia Databases (1998-03-01)
Book reviews (1998-03-01)
The Remaking of Television New Zealand 1984–1992, Barry Spicer, Michael Powell & David Emanuel, Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland University Press, 1996, x + 207 pp., NZS3 4.95, ISBN 18694 0151 4 (1998-03-01)
User-Chosen Phrases in Interactive Query Formulation for Information Retrieval (1998-03-01)
The machinery of external control (1998-03-01)
Science, Technology and Democracy on the STS Agenda: Review Article (1998-03-01)
Liberia: railroading peace (1998-03-01)
20th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR - Index (1998-03-01)
Driving the Hard Bargain for Australian R&D (1998-03-01)
News (1998-03-01)
Science and Technology in Germany (New Edn), Wilhelm Krull & Frieder Meyer-Krahmer (Eds), London, Catermill Publishing, 1996, ix + 238 pp., US$45.00, ISBN 1 86067 146 2 (1998-03-01)
Agents in Cyberspace – Towards a Framework for Multi-Agent Systems in Information Discovery (1998-03-01)
Information Subsidies, Journalism Routines and the Australian Media: Market Liberalization versus Marketplace of Ideas (1998-03-01)
Waiting for oprah & the new US constituency for Africa (1998-03-01)
Combining Information Retrieval with Information Extraction for Efficient Retrieval of Calls for Papers (1998-03-01)
Half Way Home in Electric Vehicles: A Strategic Reassessment (1998-03-01)
Social and Cognitive Factors in the Design and Evaluation of Multimedia Systems (1998-03-01)
Cut backs in Japanese aid (1998-03-01)
On the Reliability of Economic Models, Daniel Little (Ed.), Boston, Kluwer, 1995, pp. viii + 283, UK £71.50, ISBN 0 7923 9494 1 (1998-03-01)
Explaining Television Stations' Preferences for Imported Drama Programs (1998-03-01)
Communication Traditions in 20th-century Australia Graeme Osborn e & Glen Lews, Graeme Osborne & Glen Lewis, Melboume Oxford University Press, 1995, x + 195 pp., AU$22.95, ISBN 0 19 553511 1 (1998-03-01)
German Indexing and Retrieval Test Data Base (GIRT) Some Results of the Pre-test (1998-03-01)
An Architecture for Efficient Document Clustering and Retrieval on a Dynamic Collection of Newspaper Texts (1998-03-01)
A Dempster-ShaferModel for Document Retrieval using Noun Phrases (1998-03-01)
Not Just Another Business: Journalists, Citizens and the Media, Julianne Schultz (Ed.), Leichhardt, New South Wales, Pluto Press, 1994, 243 pp., AU$19.95, ISBN I 86403 015 1 (1998-03-01)
Moi's flawed mandate: the crisis continues in Kenya (1998-03-01)
Africa today and tomorrow (1998-03-01)
Books received (1998-03-01)
Modeling Information Retrieval with Probabilistic Argumentation Systems (1998-03-01)
Business Incubators in Economic Development: An Initial Assessment in Industrializing Countries, Rustam Lalkaka & Jack Bishop (Eds), New York, United Nations Development Programme, 1996, xiv + 190 pp., US$25.00, no ISBN (1998-03-01)
The ‘NGO‐isation’ of Kenyan society: USAID & the restructuring of health care (1998-03-01)
Constructing alternatives to structural adjustment in Africa (1998-03-01)
Effective and Efficient Relational Query Processing Using Conceptual Graphs (1998-03-01)
Evaluation of Interfaces for IRS: Modelling End-User Searching Behaviour (1998-03-01)
Universal Service Obligations in a Competitive Telecommunications Environment, Committee on Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, OECD, 1995, 152 pp., US$42.00, ISBN 92 64 14664 4 (1998-03-01)
Future Development of New Zealand's Science and Technology System (1998-03-01)
Content Based Annotation and Retrieval in RAIDER (1998-03-01)
Gender Differences in Wage Returns to Computer Skills in Australia (1998-03-01)
Congo/Ex‐Zaire: through the looking glass (1998-03-01)
New Secretary‐general for the francophonie (1998-03-01)
Search Techniques Within a Multiple Database Environment (1998-02-01)
Supporting Image Search on the Web (1998-02-01)
A Rotation Invariant Shape Representation based on Wavelet Transform (1998-02-01)
Text-based Hierarchical Image Classification and Retrieval of Stock Photography (1998-02-01)
Using Colour for Image Indexing (1998-02-01)
A Novel Architecture for Trademark Image Retrieval Systems (1998-02-01)
Towards automatic recognition of plant varieties (1998-02-01)
Searching for Photos - Journalists’ Practices in Pictorial IR (1998-02-01)
Challenge of Image Retrieval - Index (1998-02-01)
Multiple Inverted Array Index Structure for Asymmetric Similarity Measure (1998-02-01)
A Model for Content Representation of Multimedia Information (1998-02-01)
A Client-Server Extension to PICSearch system (1998-02-01)