Abstract In high-tech industries, firms accumulate increasing amounts of excess resources. Existent research paints an ambiguous picture these slack resources for innovation: while some is integral innovation as fuel experimentation, too much inhibits by causing inefficiencies. However, in industries cannot develop and sustain competitive advantages the long run without sufficient steady invest...

Case Report The patient first attended East Ham Chest Clinic in September 1953, when he was 68 years old. He complained of persistent cough for one year, which had been worse for the previous two months. It was associated with about an eggcupful of whitish sputum daily. He had experienced night sweats for one week, during which he complained of a pleuritic type of pain in the right chest. There...

Tuberculosis of the larynx is a rare form of tuberculosis. Patients usually present with hoarseness of voice or dysphagia and other nonspecific constitutional symptoms like fever or localized pain. We are reporting a case of 50 year old male who presented to us with hoarseness of voice, haemoptysis, dysphagia and a proliferative growth in the epiglottis which was diagnosed as laryngeal tubercul...

Ontologies have primarily been promoted to facilitate interagent communication and knowledge reuse. There has not been as much emphasis on using ontologies to improve system quality. As a result, typically, ontology development, and verification and validation are treated as different stages in the life cycle. However, this paper argues that ontology design should include emergent knowledge tha...

A case of co-existent intrauterine and ectopic pregnancy is described in a patient from overseas. The difficulty in diagnosis and management is discussed, together with recent literature.

Storage has been extensively studied during the past few decades (Foster et al., 1997; Jos Guimares, 2001). However, the emerging trends on distributed computing bring new solutions for existent problems. Grid computing proposes a distributed approach for data storing. In this paper, we introduce a Grid-based system (ARCO) developed for multimedia storage of large ammounts of data. The system i...

This paper describes a proposal to add support for dynamic communicators to the MPI standard. This adds the ability to grow or shrink a specified communicator, under well specified circumstances. The goal is to make it possible for a new class of applications longrunning, mission-critical, loosely coupled applications, running in a highly dynamic environment to use MPI libraries for their commu...

This study analyzes dynamic capabilities that support activities directed toward accessing resources and further developing resources to make them commercially usable. We develop theory and empirically investigate the impact of dynamic capabilities on the amount and success of these activities, and whether the impact of dynamic capabilities differs between the two types of activities. Using uni...