And at ICTD2010 – hosted by Royal Holloway in December – the historic "gap" between ICT4D practitioners and academics continued to be closed, and I hope we will begin to find the two disciplines working more closely together in the coming months.
The specific approach of future-focused Market Segmentation is problematic since practitioners of this method rely on historic data (I10).
THIN and MediPlus provide data on a population of 3 million active (and >5 million historic) patients who are registered with a general practitioner, some with over 20 years of follow up.
The latter could be used in cost-benefit analysis of historic sites by policy and decision makers, and development practitioners wishing to protect the traditional built environment.
This study marks five years on from the introduction of the 2006 nGDS contract in England, yet commissioners continued to report significant constraints in their abilities to reallocate resources between practitioners' contracts, largely as a consequence of historic funding decisions and nGDS regulations.
On the other hand, many items of folk literature, because of historic movements or overwhelming foreign influences or the mere lack of skillful practitioners of the tradition, become less and less important, and occasionally die out from the oral repertory.
Following Kodak's historic outsourcing decision, technology outsourcing has assumed significant importance among researchers and practitioners.
Weaved into this historic overview are descriptions of the most important contributions of the leading practitioners and researchers.
Although FRPs seem to improve response of historic masonry walls under in-plane shear loading, further investigations must specify a number of aspects for both researchers and practitioners.
Exhibitions of historic and contemporary craftsmanship were staged to draw them to the city, as well as training courses and master classes led by eminent practitioners.
