A key problem for models of dialogue is to explain how conventions are established and sustained. Existing accounts emphasize the importance of interaction, demonstrating how collaborative feedback leads to more systematized, stable and arbitrary referential conventions. However, co-ordination in dialogue requires both co-ordination of content and of process. To investigate procedural co-ordina...

Abstract This article addresses current ambiguities and potential confusion around the language nature of vocation to ordination, focusing specifically on process by which that is discerned individual church. It suggests particular shape ordained ministry differentiates vocational discernment ordination from career choice. Drawing Ordination rite Church England, distinctive Christological, pneu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between care co-ordination and use of the Emergency Department (ED) in older managed care enrollees. DESIGN Nested case-control with 103 cases (used the ED) and 194 controls (did not use the ED). PATIENTS AND METHODS Older patients with multiple chronic illnesses enrolled in a care management programme of a large group-model health maintenance organi...

An introduction is given to the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, along with a brief explanation of the main focus towards large made-to-order products. Three key areas of research at the Centre, which have evolved as a result of collaboration with industrial partners from various sectors of industry, are identified as (1) decision support and optimisation, (2)...

Question: How is tundra vegetation related to climatic, soil chemical, geological variables and grazing across a very large section of the Eurasian arctic area? We were particularly interested in broad-scale vegetation-environment relationships and how well do the patterns conform to climate-vegetation schemes. Material and Methods: We sampled vegetation in 1132 plots from 16 sites from differe...

* The views expressed in this paper are personal. Most outsiders tend to base their analysis of the future of the Eurosystem on the shape of the Federal Reserve System in the US. This paper argues that the US model is inappropriate. It suggests that the Eurosystem is pursuing a different arrangement, where the balance of power in the national central banks rather than in the centre may continue...

In this paper a tuple space based co-ordination language, and a run-time system which supports it is described. The co-ordination language is called WCL, and it is designed to support agent co-ordination over the Internet between agents which are geographically distributed. WCL uses tuple spaces as used in Linda. WCL provides a richer set of primitives that traditional tuple space based systems...

Knowledge, managed or co-ordinated as a strategic resource, can help to internalise uncertainty or volatility and play an important role in generating and sustaining competitive advantage. One potentially important determinant of knowledge coordination between firms is the relative strength of the knowledge bases of the two partner companies. In the context of the local supply chain this paper ...