The paper at hand discusses the applicability of knowledge scorecards and intellectual capital management for monitoring and steering of knowledgedriven organizations based upon a best practice project at the Austrian Defence Academy (in particular the School for Atomic, Biological and Chemical Defence). Within this project a model-driven approach based upon the PROMOTE® methodology has been im...

The success of any treatment modality depends on following a precise biological criteria which includes using atraumatic surgical procedures, minimal risk to surrounding tissues, improved visibility, hemostasis and post operative conditions2. Most of the instruments used are either manual or motor driven but in bone surgeries they do not help to achieve the above criteria because they are diffi...

• In the short term, using price-driven instruments (through tax or trading) will allow flexibility in how, where and when emission reductions are made, providing opportunities and incentives to keep down the cost of mitigation. The price signal should reflect the marginal damage caused by emissions, and rise over time to reflect the increasing damages as the stock of GHGs grows. For efficiency...

This paper presents a miniature wrist that can be integrated into needle-sized surgical instruments. The wrist consists of a nitinol tube with asymmetric cutouts that is actuated by a single tendon to provide high distal curvature. We derive and experimentally validate kinematic and static models for the wrist and describe several prototype wrists, illustrating the straightforward fabrication a...

Advances in technology equip tra c domain with instruments to gather and analyze data for safe and fuele cient traveling. This article elaborates on the e↵ects from taxi drivers route selection on fuel e ciency. We fuse real driving behavior data from taxi cabs, weather, and digital map information for fuel consumption prediction. That way we compare actually driven trips and their quickest and...

This paper considers a semiparametric version of the transformation model φ(Y ) = β′ X + U under exogeneity or instrumental variables assumptions (E(U |X) = 0 or E(U |instruments ) = 0). This model is used as an example to illustrate the practice of the estimation by solving linear functional equations. This paper is specially focused on the data driven selection of the regularization parameter...

One of the current challenges of Service Oriented Engineering is to provide instruments for dealing with dynamic and unpredictable environments and changing user requirements. Traditional approaches based on static workflows provide little support for adapting at runtime the flow of activities. MUSA (Middleware for User-driven Service Adaptation) is a holonic multi-agent system for the self-ada...

A well-functioning Knowledge Management (KM) is a competitive advantage for enterprises that act in co-operative and distributed networks with knowledge intensive production processes. A KM approach for distributed and dynamic entrepreneurial networks is currently missing. This paper presents a description model that comprises the relevant entities for an approach to KM in networks that integra...

in the submicroliter range, also referred to as nanodispensing and nanopipetting, have become an important feature of liquid-handling robotic instruments. Instrumental solutions for a number of dispensing techniques are commercially available and are applied routinely in various applications. Common dispensing principles are syringe-based (liquid or air) positive displacement, solenoid valve dr...