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Introduction: Traditionally, the academic librarian has served as an information specialist working in close professional contact with researchers to provide support in the process of scientific investigation. When the Internet entered the academic world, the belief emerged that researchers could handle information on their own. Thus, the value of personal professional interaction between the acad
In recent years, systems for resource allocation in academic research based on performance indicators have been introduced in many European countries (Hicks, 2012). Today, we are at a point where the use of bibliometrics based indicators for research evaluation and resource allocation more or less permeates academic systems on all levels and across the world. The implementation—and the effects of
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A survey that points out research issues and open problems in the area of integrated control and real-time scheduling. Issues that are discussed include temporal robustness, schedulability margin, optimal and direct feedback scheduling, quality-of-control, and tools.
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Whether and how innovation activity is dependent upon economic factors has been discussed extensively. Most empirical studies on the subject have either used patent data as a proxy for innovation, or been conducted at an aggregate level. Using a new database on Swedish product innovations (Swinno) this paper examines in what way patterns of innovation activity varied across and within manufacturin
This article analyses and discusses the world view and the theology of Hans-Erik Lindström, author of several pilgrimage books and the founder of the Pilgrim’s Centre in Vadstena. Lindström’s pilgrimage theology is based upon seven keywords: slowness, freedom, simplicity, silence, light-heartedness, sharing and spirituality. These are assumed to be the pilgrim’s longings that can not be found in t
