Geographic information systems (GIS) have numerous applications in human health. This chapter opens with a brief discussion of the three dimensions of decision-making in organizations — operational control, management control, and strategic planning. These dimensions are then discussed in terms of three case studies: a practiceimprovement case study under operational control, a service-planning...

Effective innovative activity of enterprises with the dynamic economic development is possible under the conditions of timely implementation of innovative projects that satisfy and meet the requirements of the external and internal environment and contribute to building up their own potential with the orientation of the enterprise activity on the long-term prospect of development. This contribu...

Recent evidence has implicated posterior parietal cortex (PPC) in adaptation to optical displacing prisms. It has been suggested that PPC contributes to the strategic component of prism adaptation necessary for perceptual realignment (true adaptation). It has also been suggested, however, that the part of PPC responsible for corrections to ongoing movements (a putative strategic component) may ...

Active cyber defense is one important defensive method for combating cyber attacks. Unlike traditional defensive methods such as firewall-based filtering and anti-malware tools, active cyber defense is based on spreading “white” or “benign” worms to combat against the attackers’ malwares (i.e., malicious worms) that also spread over the network. In this paper, we initiate the study of optimal a...

Purpose This paper aims to understand the strategic management of innovation by examining effect that control systems (MCS) have on activities during change process. Design/methodology/approach A case study was carried out at an innovative company as they undertook a from closed open innovation. Simons’ levers used frame ways in which MCS were designed and managers organization members. Finding...