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For history researchers, it is not a needless luxury to consider from time to time the content and the significance of the basic concepts they use, certainly if they have the ambition to interpret and/or explain history in addition to purely describing it. This self-reflection, compelled by the annually recurring dialogue with educational philosophers (cf. Smeyers & Depaepe, 2006),2 need not necessarily place an emphasis on philosophical abstraction but can just as well start from an examination of the history of one’s own research. Such an approach need not succumb to navel-gazing.

Formulating requirements for a video search system can be a challenging task when everyone is a possible user. This paper explores the possibilities of classifying users by creating a Profile Matrix, placing users on two axes: experience and goal-directedness. This enables us to describe the characteristics of the subgroups and investigate differences between the different groups. We created Profile Matrices by classifying 850 respondents of a survey regarding a requirements study for a video search system.

O objetivo desta comunicação é refletir sobre o território “sem leis” da Web, particularmente aberto, fluido e colaborativo como espaço ideal para a propaganda intolerante. Pretendemos analisar aqui uma das várias facetas da intolerância, que vem

The postwar motorization boom in Western Europe implicated rising complaints about road vehicle noise. By the end of the 1960s, traffic noise abatement became an urgent topic for European regulators and automobile engineers. The article investigates how car sound, its measurement and the standardization of measurement procedures developed during the first postwar decades, and how this relates to European integration.

Pour la première fois, la Bibliothèque de l'Université du Luxembourg publie des chiffres disponibles relatifs à ses activités, à ses services et collections, ainsi qu'à l'usage de ceux-ci.

Résumé Centrées sur le « plan d’une union économique et monétaire par étapes » présenté publiquement le 8 octobre 1970, les recherches dans le fonds des archives inédites de la familleWerner permettent la mise en lumière tant du déroulement des travaux du comitéWerner, de l’incidence du planWerner sur la poursuite du chemin vers l’Union économique et monétaire, que de la contribution personnelle de son président à l’élaboration de ce rapport, ainsi qu’à l’obtention du compromis politique nécessaire pour faire avance l’Europe. Abstract