A Primer on Watershed Management

A Primer on Supply Chain Management

Knowledge Management: A Primer

Knowledge Management is an expanding field of study. In this paper we clarify and explain some of the terms and concepts that underlie this field. In particular we discuss knowledge and its related philosophies; how the sociotechnical aspects of organizations can assist in knowledge management and how communities of practice can thus be supported; how knowledge can be valued in an organization;...

E-Business Management: A Primer

Building a successful e-business requires such enterprise capabilities as global networking, integrated business processes, sharing information with supplychain partners, agility in responding to the market, and intelligent decisionmaking. At the same time enterprise systems have extended beyond the traditional business functions and include features to support supply-chain management, customer...

Multicriterionforest watershed resources management

An Arizona case study consisting of 6 alternative schemes is evaluated with respect to 15 noncommensurable, discrete criteria, using two types of (MCDM) techniques, namely the outranking types of ELECTRE I and II, and the distance-based type of compromise programming (CP). The result is a complete preference ordering of the nondominated alternatives in the cases of ELECTRE II and CP and a parti...

Infants with Delirium: A Primer on Prevention, Recognition, and Management.

Delirium is a serious neuropsychiatric condition that emerges acutely in all age groups, including infants, children, and adolescents. Delirium serves as an urgent signal of distress that a young child’s brain is in trouble. Prevention, recognition, and management of infants with delirium is often especially challenging due to their pre-verbal status and still immature cognitive development. Th...