In the U.S., the mid and late 1990s was a boom period in many ways that included an expanding economy, a growing emphasis upon the value of people's working knowledge, and a range of new Information Technology (IT) applications and information services that depended upon computer networking often the Internet. These themes were represented in professional discourse by a special emphasis upon "k...

The purpose of this study was to develop the yet limited empirical knowledge on the intensity of customer interaction and on specific customer roles in service innovation processes. An empirical study of twelve (12) business service innovation projects was conducted in cleaning and security, financial, and ICT services. We examined both ad hoc and formalised innovation processes. Overall in the...

Purpose – This paper extends the corporation-based metaphor of the tree by proposing that cognition is the core ability that nourishes the development of core competencies. From such an extension, this paper aims to take a step forward to answer the question: what is the role of cognition in the organization that is in pursuit of core competencies and sustainable competitive advantage? Design/m...

A hospitalized patient with depression and suicidal tendencies was referred for occupational therapy. The patient's evaluations while hospitalized indicated a lack of social skills and unrealistic expectations concerning abilities and aspirations. A work evaluation showed high scores in artistic and people-related occupations. Treatment focused on improvement of self-image, social interaction a...

the purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to investigate effective factors on rural people’s non-participation of mahabad’s dam catchment in watershed management projects. the research instrument was structural questionnaire with close-ended questions, which its validity confirmed by panel of academic staff and reliability of questionnaire was confirmed. the target population of thi...

Scientific workflows tend to be time consuming and data intensive, and today’s fast paced mobile culture does not afford researchers the luxury of neither sitting at a computer for days at a time, waiting for experiments. While business workflow research has addressed this issue, the solutions developed are not applicable to scientifc workflow systems, as the infrastructure of the two are not t...

The administrator of current IT environments is facing a continuous increase in the complexity that s/he needs to handle. S/he can be compared to a power jet pilot sitting in front of a console with a plenty of gouges, leds, counters, each of them measuring or showing a particular part of the overall aircraft status. The pilot looks to all these indications, correlate each other these data sour...

The fundamental goal of every speech and language clinician is to provide services that will enhance the functional communicative abilities of the patients they treat. The cornerstone of developing a successful intervention program is careful patient assessment. Historically, clinicians have relied on traditional standardized language and neuropsychological assessment tools to determine perform...

Directing attention away from pain is often used in children's pain treatment programs to control pain. However, empirical evidence concerning its effectiveness is inconclusive. We therefore sought to understand other influencing factors, including executive function and its role in the pain experience. This study investigates the role of executive functioning in the effectiveness of distractio...

Inherent complexity in large-scale applications may be impossible to eliminate or even ameliorate despite a number of promising advances. In such cases, the complexity must be tolerated and managed. Such management may be beyond the abilities of humans, or require such overhead as to make management by humans unrealistic. A number of initiatives inspired by concepts in biology have arisen for s...