Preliminary analysis of data collected from trained expert facilitators of ad hoc creative teams suggests that complex analytical techniques such as costed function modeling and decision criteria matrix may have far more impact upon a team's creative effectiveness than frequently researched measures such as idea quantity. An intriguing relationship in these data between complex creativity and t...

Oil spills from tanker or oil well have detrimental effects on environment and economy. One of the most economical and efficient methods for oil spill clean-up is mechanical extraction by sorbents which are not only the safest methods but also the least expensive of spill control. The potential use of agricultural by-products such as corn silk for adsorbent of crude oil from water systems was p...

A recent theoretical analysis argues that the effectiveness of empowerment is contingent upon the degree of uncertainty in the environment (Wall, Cordery and Clegg 2002). In a study of 212 New Product Development (NPD) projects we found that the relationship between team empowerment and speed-to-market was moderated by uncertainty stemming from technological turbulence but not by uncertainty re...

The poor physical health of adults with serious mental illnesses is a public health crisis. Greater integration of mental health and primary medical care services at the clinic and system levels could address this need. In New York state, there are several ongoing initiatives that promote integrated care for adults with serious mental illness, provided or coordinated by community mental health ...

For a nite group G the commutativity degree denote by d(G) and dend:$$d(G) =frac{|{(x; y)|x, yin G,xy = yx}|}{|G|^2}.$$ In [2] authors found commutativity degree for some groups,in this paper we nd commutativity degree for a class of groups that have high nilpontencies.

The success of the ERP systems is considered an important issue, however, and as a result of its newness, mainly the investigation of the phenomenon has been of type descriptive or it has been oriented to qualitative methodologies. This paper presents an explanatory model of the phenomenon and its empirical validation in a set of Chilean organizations. The results of applying a structural equat...

The official opening of the Direct Bournemouth Railway is a good text for a description of that rising West Hants watering-place. Bournemouth has been growing in favour, and competing vigorously with other and older towns over which it has unquestionable advantages, the chief being its comparative newness. Some wateringplaces like Weymouth have had an existence of several generations, and their...

The success of the ERP systems is an important issue in the scientific literature of the area. Nevertheless, and as a result of its newness, mainly the investigation of the phenomenon has been of type descriptive or it has been oriented to qualitative methodologies. In this work we presented an explanatory model of the phenomenon and its empirical validation in a set of Chilean organizations. T...

I F a man who had lived some hundred years ago were to return to life again today and glance at the title of this symposium, "Simulated Atmospheres and Foreign Environments in Space Operations.," he probably would think that he had reached the wrong planet and might immediately disappear again to his supernatural environment. In fact, our occupation with simulated atmospheres per se indicates t...