Much research has been devoted over the years to investigating and advancing the techniques and tools used by analysts when they model. As opposed to what academics, software providers and their resellers promote as should be happening, the aim of this research was to determine whether practitioners still embraced conceptual modelling seriously. In addition, what are the most popular techniques...

Introduction. Education in Tabriz medical science university for medical students did not have a fixed and defendable route. Students learned most of the lessons theoretically which needed to be practiced and they were graduated from the university without having enough and correct information about them. It is noticeable that almost all of the practical procedures such as, intravenous injectio...

introduction. education in tabriz medical science university for medical students did not have a fixed and defendable route. students learned most of the lessons theoretically which needed to be practiced and they were graduated from the university without having enough and correct information about them. it is noticeable that almost all of the practical procedures such as, intravenous injectio...

This paper is intended to provide a high-level overview and introduction to the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The context and general uses for BPMN will be provided as a supplement to the technical details defined the BPMN 1.0 Specification, which has been recently completed and released to the public. The basics of the BPMN notation will be discribed—that is, the types of graphica...

Skeletal plans are a powerful way to reuse existing domainspecific procedural knowledge. The main drawbacks are that the compositions and the interdependencies of different skeletal plans and their components are not lucid. The aim of this paper is to overcome these limitations and to present the visualization of time-oriented, skeletal plans. Within the Asgaard project, we have developed a tim...

This article surveys the methods and tools of quality improvement used today in health care. Specifically, we describe how clinicians can use these methods to impact the clinical practice of medicine. Improvement teams from a variety of health care organizations have reported the successful use of basic methods such as group work, flowcharting, data collection, and graphical data analysis. In a...

activity-based costing Costing method that breaks down the organization into a set of activities, and activities into tasks, which convert materials, labour and technology into outputs. activity time The time required to perform one activity at one station. adequate service The level of service quality a customer is willing to accept. adverse conditions Positive and negative employee actions un...

In this paper are discussed recent efforts to provide preservice mathematics teachers with opportunities to connect elementary teaching methods and content with the content and methods of secondary school mathematics. Through an indepth exploration of the game, Shut the Box, preservice elementary and secondary mathematics teachers thoughtfully analyzed and manipulated computer-generated output,...

Business process models are designed in isolation but must be applied in real organisational and business situations. A key management concern is how to identify those levers of control that injluence the factors that allow a business process to achieve maximum performance. In this paper, we demonstrate the application of the KNOVA (KNOwledge Value-Added) technique to the problem of making visi...