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In comparison to other fabrication techniques, folding or bending allows for complex and innovative structures formed with simple and low cost tools at the point of assembly. From flat sheet material, folded designs can be easily deployed into a three-dimensional volume and then can be collapsed back to a two-dimensional flat shape that is much smaller, for ease of shipping and storage. The goal of this paper is to systemically explore practical means of using mathematical and scientific origami in product design in order to seek innovative ways of form finding and making through the materiality of paper folding. Geometric tessellated patterns that can produce flat-foldable and rigid-foldable designs are focused, and variations of these crease patterns are explored to generate a variety of folded designs that can be used toward light sheds. A wide variety of durable conventional paper and technical paper materials that are appropriate for light sheds are compared and tested in terms of their material properties, functionalities and sustainability attributes. In order to investigate such issues, this paper focuses on a case study of a lighting brand, Folded Light Art. Currently technical production processes for cutting sheet materials, as well as traditional hand folding, are used to produce the scale paper models and 1:1 scale prototypes for the works of Folded Light Art. Luminary hardware is fabricated at local sheet metal shops. Potential CNC technologies of cutting, scoring and etching sheet materials are further explored. Though the current focus is on light sheds, this research can be applied to other folded designs that can potentially shift the paradigm in sustainable product design and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of an innovative web-based ethics module that was designed to integrate ethics education across four accounting courses over two years (second and third year courses) in a large Australian tertiary institution. Approach: The approach taken in designing the ethics web-based module was to base the foundations of the module on Rest's (1976) ethical behavior model with the adoption of a longitudinal approach to the coverage of financial reporting ethical issues. Practical Implications: The key objectives of the module are to improve students' awareness and sensitivity to accounting ethics, and to foster student learning in an interesting and stimulating manner, leading to in-depth understanding of accounting ethics. Originality/value of paper: This paper provides a description of an original web-based approach to delivering ethics education to accounting students across four university courses. Its value lies in not only the innovative and interactive ethics education approach but also in providing feedback from students and the profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A paper filtering system that supports the effective collection of related technical papers is becoming important as technological progress accelerates. Two requirements for the paper filtering system are (1) reduction of the user workload in specifying the filtering conditions and (2) sufficient filtering accuracy. We propose a paper filtering method that meets both requirements simultaneously by focusing on the features of the coauthor research group, subject category, and terminology. The result of evaluation using 3600 domestic learned-society papers shows that the proposed method improved the mean average precision from 0.39 to 0.50, that is, by 0.11, compared with the conventional pseudo-relevance feedback method, thus improving its suitability for practical use. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn, 93(9): 1–11, 2010; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/ecj.10264 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]