Pouring Israel into a Starbucks Cup

The forgotten Calonectria collection: Pouring old wine into new bags

The genus Calonectria with its Cylindrocladium asexual morphs has been subject to several taxonomic revisions in the past. These have resulted in the recognition of 116 species, of which all but two species (C. hederae and C. pyrochroa) are supported by ex-type cultures and supplemented with DNA barcodes. The present study is based on a large collection of unidentified Calonectria isolates that...

Is Implementing ERP Like Pouring Concrete Into a Company? Impact of Enterprise Systems on Organizational Agility

Literature is divided on whether enterprise systems promote or hinder organizational agility. To the best of our knowledge, this paradox has never been rigorously theoretically analyzed nor empirically investigated. This paper seeks to address this paradox by leveraging upon innovation assimilation literature and knowledge based and capabilities based views of organizations. We propose a theore...

Pouring Liquids: A Study in Commonsense Physical Reasoning: Appendix: Verification of Pouring Scenario

The formal statements of the lemmas in this appendix, like the axioms in the main text of the paper, are (intended to be) written in a style that could be given directly to an automated theorem checker, after some straightfoward syntactic desugaring. In the text of the proofs here, by contrast, I have followed the (God knows, rigid enough) comparatively informal style of normal mathematical wri...

Personalized medicine – where do we stand? Pouring some water into wine: a realistic perspective

Reviewing the past and the present status of personalized medicine, the hope and promise from several years ago was critically compared to what is really achieved to tailor the drug treatment according to the patient’s individuality. The basis for consideration is what we know about the variant of the disease the patient is suffering from, and about the mechanisms influencing the plasma concent...

Starbucks: A Strategic Change and Management Perspective Master Thesis