Shared resource pools are facilities featuring a certain amount of resources which can be used by different applications. For managing resources in such pools, the demand of each application can be used. Such a demand, ...
Purpose: To report on the 10th ILDS conference held in Singapore
Approach – Descriptive
Findings – That the conference was very successful and that contrary to rumours interlending and document supply is alive and well ...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to outline current resource-sharing initiatives in Irish academic libraries that support increased research activity
in line with national policy. This paper aims to point to the ...
In this paper, we suggest a collective model with parents and (young)
children. We identify and estimate scale economies in households and the
sharing rule between husband, wife and children. While adult shares and
economies ...
We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of
household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland.
The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in ...
The significant growth of media and user-generated content online has allowed for the widespread adoption of recommender systems due to their proven ability to reduce the workload of a user and personalise
content. In ...
This study of Irish company investor relations material on the Internet was carried out in two parts. Firstly, Irish listed companies were surveyed for Web sites and investor relations material on the sites found was ...
Most of us use internet-sourced information in order to live in this global, electronic age. We communicate, share information, apply for jobs, do research, book holidays and listen to music and the ability to handle ...
In this paper we focus on an approach to social search,
HeyStaks that is designed to integrate with mainstream search engines
such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. HeyStaks is motivated by the idea that
Web search is an ...
Deforestation primarily affects developing
countries. Most developing countries share two characteristics: (1) trade liberalization reforms in the last two decades, and (2) weak property rights and limited rule of law. ...