Mazawi André E. et Sultana Ronald G. (dir.), World Yearbook of Education 2010 : Educa

Ronald E. Giachetti

The agile electronics manufacturing enterprise must rapidly develop new products by close interaction with their supplier network. Design for manufacturing must occur in this extended and distributed enterprise across traditional organizational boundaries. This paper proposes the use of information models to support this activity. A manufacturing model is built using the EXPRESS information mod...

Findings from the yearbook 2010 section on decision support systems.

OBJECTIVE To summarize current excellent research in the field of computer-based decision support systems in health and healthcare. METHODS We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2010, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the activity and new trends in the field. RESULTS while the state of the research in the field of medical decision support...

The Econometrics of Inequality Measurement - Discussion of S . G . Donald et al . ( 2010 ) and R . Davidson ( 2010 ) ∗

This paper discusses aspects of S.G. Donald et al. (2010) and R. Davidson (2010), which were presented at the Econometrics Journal sponsored special session on the econometrics of inequality measurement, held at the Royal Economics Society Meeting in Surrey in 2010. JEL Classification: C10, C14, C15, I39 ∗This discussion was prepared for presentation at the Econometrics Journal sponsored specia...

Ronald Fintushel and Ronald

In order to state our theorems we need to view the Seiberg-Witten invariant of a smooth 4manifold as a multivariable (Laurent) polynomial. To do this, recall that the Seiberg-Witten invariant of a smooth closed oriented 4-manifold X with b2 (X) > 1 is an integer valued function which is defined on the set of spin c structures over X, (cf. [W], [KM],[Ko1],[T1]). In caseH1(X,Z) has no 2-torsion (...

"Abuse of the elderly": a chapter in the World Report on Violence and Health. Edited by E. G. Krug et al. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2002.