280Missed appointments: What are they and why do they happen?

Risk Management Failures: What Are They and When Do They Happen?

Enterprise Knowledge Portals: What They Are and What They Do

The Enterprise is a continuous, dynamic “swirl” of problem-solving knowledgerelated Interactions from which knowledge is produced and integrated with the business processes of the enterprise. For a given problem generated by a business process, it is useful to abstract from the swirl and to conceptualize an iteration of a knowledge life cycle encompassing knowledge processes targeted on solving...

Type I and Type II errors: what are they and why do they matter?

When examining the characteristics of organisms, there are two basic categories of organismsliving and non-living. There are seven characteristics that exist to classify an organism as a living thing. Living organisms must be made of cells, reproduce, use energy, grow and develop, respond to stimuli, adapt to their environment, and maintain homeostasis. Non-living organisms, then, lack one or m...

Oxygen uptake kinetics: Why are they so slow? And what do they tell us?

VO(2) kinetics and O(2) deficit are important determinants of exercise tolerance. In "normal" conditions convective and diffusive O(2) delivery to skeletal muscle fibers do not represent important determinants of VO(2) kinetics, whose limiting factors seem mainly located within muscle fibers. Whereas a limiting role by PDH has not been confirmed, the role of inhibition of mitochondrial respirat...

Universal Grammar and Chaos/Complexity Theory: Where Do They Meet And Where Do They Cross?

  Abstract The present study begins by sketching "Chaos/Complexity Theory" (C/CT) and its applica-tion to the nature of language and language acquisition. Then, the theory of "Universal Grammar" (UG) is explicated with an eye to C/CT. Firstly, it is revealed that CCT may or may not be allied with a theory of language acquisition that takes UG as the initial state of language acquisition for ...