Information: Concept Clarification and Theoretical Representation

Visual representation concept of factory information

The development in industries like the machine tool industry or the automotive industry is to concentrate on the major working fields and buying the best competence in the other working fields from system suppliers (see STRASMANN, SCHÜLER 1996). An information system allowing a fast information flow between customer and suppliers (esp. while constructing a new product) has to be built up. In or...

Representation and Management of Narrative Information - Theoretical Principles and Implementation

Theoretical Foundations for Information Representation and Cons train t Specification

Concept clarification of neonatal neurobehavioural organization.

AIM This paper is a report of a concept analysis of neonatal neurobehavioural organization for healthy full-term infants. BACKGROUND The neonatal period is an opportune time for researchers and clinicians to assess and intervene for optimal neurobehavioural organization. Yet there is inconsistency and lack of clarity in a scientifically grounded definition of neonatal neurobehavioural organiz...

Clarification of MPC and the mutant selection window concept.

Sir, Smith et al.1 recently warned that the newly emerged mutant prevention concentration (MPC) concept has been stretched beyond its limits. The authors correctly caution that when MPC is measured in a way that does not reflect the major mechanism of clinical resistance, it cannot be used in the clinical setting: one cannot determine the number of oranges in a barrel by counting apples. Howeve...