New technologies gives an ability transfer business processes to more automated layer in such a way ensuring efficiency and labour productivity. This process is complex and imperative to improve and growth. Usability of software depends on software quality as on growth of information technologies culture. Human ability to analyze and process informational flows is quite limited and time consuming. For this reason software and hardware are essential ensuring accurateness, well-timed and automated processing of information. Processed, accurate and well-timed information is useful for any organization. There is no software which can carry out all business activities, but people having potency to use software as a tool and analyze given information ant results are also required. Only in that case an increase of efficiency and labour productivity is possible while using software.

This study represents the first of its kind to examine an extensive lithic debitage assemblage from a Late Dorset inland occupation. The assemblage derives from an isolated Late Dorset component at the LdFa-1 site, located along the northwest shore of Mingo Lake in the deep interior of southern Baffin Island. A study sample of 7,479 lithic debitage is systematically drawn and analyzed using two methodological approaches: individual attribute analysis and mass analysis. Patterns of variability derived from the analysis are isolated and interpreted within a technological organizational framework to identify Late Dorset lithic reduction and use strategies at the site. Using a multi-scalar approach, these results are then compared to those obtained from two inland Pre-Dorset sites, known as Sandy Point (LlDv-10) and Mosquito Ridge (MaDv-11) to draw some conclusions about how Palaeo-Eskimo populations more broadly organized their lithic technologies and used this terrestrial landscape over time.

This thesis research examined the implementation of the Ktunaxa Nation network and explored its ongoing use and development. The Ktunaxa Nation is comprised of four Aboriginal communities in south-eastern British Columbia, Canada. The Nation established internet infrastructure throughout the communities primarily to enable the dissemination of the Ktunaxa language of which there are only 24 speakers remaining. The purpose of this research was to examine the various uses of the Ktunaxa internet network related to land and language, at both a community and organizational level. Methods included Nvivo-based content analysis and restorying which enables a number of individual experiences to be refashioned into one comprehensive set of events. Final recommendations are provided.

In this work current database reengineering methods (automatic schema matching, iterative reengineering, butterfly, Chicken Little) are evaluated. Rules and principles of these methods were generalized and represented via algorithmic structures. Also it highlights main advantages and disadvantages of these reengineering techniques. New database reengineering method is proposed describing specific actions for each step during this process. Evaluation has shown that proposed method ensures the higher quality and faster database reengineering process. Also an experimental part of this method is described, transferring data from really functioning Oracle database management system to Microsoft SQL Server DBMS platform. Experimental part completed successfully including software reengineering and external tools readjustment which interacts with reengineered DBMS.

Most of Lithuanian working people who want to refresh their knowledge do not have a possibility to get out of their daily activities and to subscribe for weekly or monthly courses at some educational institution. At present there is a way the wish to improve one’s skills to match with the conveniences. It is distance learning by using information and communication technologies. This way allows to study independently in a convenient place, time and at certain speed. New information technologies and communication means: E-mail, discussion forums on Internet, chats on Internet, virtual learning space, video conferences make the basis of distance learning. The main economic entities in Lithuania are companies. They are established with the aim to produce, to provide services and to implement the activities which is necessary to satisfy the needs of people or other companies and organisations or it could be provided to the company itself. Each company is an independently functioning economic entity with its own aims, organizational structure and management personnel which implements its functions. This activity influences information flows which are used in management and coordination of activities between the chain of economic entities, divisions of companies or organisations and also between independent companies. Each information flow is described by the main features: a content, a consumer, a place of origin, a form, transfer environment, a power, regularity, periodicity... [to full text]

This study represents the first of its kind to examine an extensive lithic debitage assemblage from a Late Dorset inland occupation. The assemblage derives from an isolated Late Dorset component at the LdFa-1 site, located along the northwest shore of Mingo Lake in the deep interior of southern Baffin Island. A study sample of 7,479 lithic debitage is systematically drawn and analyzed using two methodological approaches: individual attribute analysis and mass analysis. Patterns of variability derived from the analysis are isolated and interpreted within a technological organizational framework to identify Late Dorset lithic reduction and use strategies at the site. Using a multi-scalar approach, these results are then compared to those obtained from two inland Pre-Dorset sites, known as Sandy Point (LlDv-10) and Mosquito Ridge (MaDv-11) to draw some conclusions about how Palaeo-Eskimo populations more broadly organized their lithic technologies and used this terrestrial landscape over time.

This thesis research examined the implementation of the Ktunaxa Nation network and explored its ongoing use and development. The Ktunaxa Nation is comprised of four Aboriginal communities in south-eastern British Columbia, Canada. The Nation established internet infrastructure throughout the communities primarily to enable the dissemination of the Ktunaxa language of which there are only 24 speakers remaining. The purpose of this research was to examine the various uses of the Ktunaxa internet network related to land and language, at both a community and organizational level. Methods included Nvivo-based content analysis and restorying which enables a number of individual experiences to be refashioned into one comprehensive set of events. Final recommendations are provided.

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Over the past thirty years, the World Bank has intensified its activities relating to education in developing countries. Notable developments in the World Bank’s policy on education include promotion of “innovative delivery”, which refers to the use of new and existing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education. The World Bank claims that the unique characteristics of ICTs have the potential to produce new forms of delivery in higher education that can overcome existing barriers to education and facilitate student-centred learning (World Bank, 1999, 2005). Many forms of innovative delivery, such as distance education and open learning, are not new forms of instruction. However, promotion of innovative delivery as a global priority for education in developing countries is new. In this thesis, I interrogate the World Bank’s assumptions concerning innovative delivery as expressed in their landmark policy statement on education, the 1999 Education Sector Strategy Report (ES99) (World Bank, 1999). I focus on the assumptions that underlie views put forward in the ES99 on the nature of technology and its role in education, the role of innovative delivery in overcoming existing barriers to education, and the potential of innovative delivery to facilitate student-centred learning. A central aim of this thesis was to better understand the socio-cultural and pedagogical issues that may arise when these assumptions are put into practice in different cultural contexts. This was achieved by comparing the assumptions put forward in the ES99 with the reported perceptions of, attitudes toward, and use of ICTs by students and lecturers from three different cultural contexts. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used to gather detailed empirical data on end-users’ perceptions, attitudes to and use of online technologies at universities in Australia, Malaysia and the United States. The findings suggested that across all three cultural contexts, respondents’ attitudes were not consistent with the World Bank’s technocratic view of innovative delivery. Moreover, the findings cast doubt on the extent to which technology-mediated education can overcome existing barriers to education and facilitate a student-centred approach to education. I conclude by suggesting that the World Bank needs to adopt a more questioning stance toward the potential effectiveness of innovative delivery. Other findings point to the contextual nature of technology adoption and the pedagogical implications of this mode of delivery across cultural contexts.