Literature on strategy, innovation, and portfolio management has recently shown increased interest in the concept of planned emergence. This builds an understanding that organizations' innovation is triggered both by deliberate top-down approaches as well emergent bottom-up processes. However, little known how to effectively plan In this context, bootlegging been mentioned a potential approach,...

This study examines prosodic correlates of the givenness of discourse entities in German radio news speech. The material comes from the Stuttgart Radio News Corpus. Both GToBI intonation labels and a Fujisaki-style parametrization of the intonation contour were examined. We find strong word-class specific accentuation defaults; the influence of entity status is rather small and varies with word...

Vol. 19, No. 3 2002 pp. 158–171 158 Alexithymia is a psychiatric term meaning lack of words for emotion (Sifneos, 1967) and it is a relatively recent term, having been coined in the late 1960s. The newness of the concept is reflected in the small number of well-validated assessment instruments in the area (Stephenson, 1996; Taylor, 1984) and the lack of research studies exploring the efficacy o...

compare the effect of different ceramic thicknesses on degree of conversion (dc) of 3 light-cured resin cements. methods: in this experimental in-vitro study, the degree of conversion of three light-cured resin cements, variolink veneer (ivoclar, liechtenstein), relyx veneer (3m espe, usa) and choice2 (bisco, usa) were evaluated beneath feldespatic ceramic discs (vita vmk master) with a same sh...

statement of problem: for many years, application of the composite restoration with a thickness less than 2 mm for achieving the minimum polymerization contraction and stress has been accepted as a principle. but through the recent development in dental material a group of resin based composites (rbcs) called bulk fill is introduced whose producers claim the possibility of achieving a good rest...

On June 23, 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) formally approved the heart failure drug BiDil to treat heart failure in “selfidentified black patients.” The drug itself is not actually new; it is merely a combination of two generic drugs that have been used to treat heart failure for over a decade. BiDil's newness derives primarily from its public presentation as the world's fi...

The first and second Zagreb indices of a graph are equal, respectively, to the sum of squares of the vertex degrees, and the sum of the products of the degrees of pairs of adjacent vertices. We now consider analogous graph invariants, based on the second degrees of vertices (number of their second neighbors), called leap Zagreb indices. A number of their basic properties is established.