Co-ordination of activities within an organization can be performed in a different way. One of them is system integration. In the paper a typology and features of manufacturing systems integration concepts will be discussed. Efficiency and effectiveness assessment of net-worked integrated systems for innovation development and transfer needs special approach. A concept of a new method will be i...

Computer-based text analysis applications have come a long way since Ellis Page’s Project Essay Grader [1]. Automated assessment applications have achieved better than human reliability and other methods of assisting assessment have opened up additional venues for utilization in the classroom and beyond. However, a lack of understanding of the differences between the different types of applicat...

Scholars have devoted increasing attention to sinriilarities and differences between public and private organizations. This paper critiques the comparative literature on these organizations in order to assess the usefulness of the public-private distinction in organization theory and concludes that further analysis of this distinction is valuable. Several avenues for improving research are sugg...

BACKGROUND The assessment of patient safety culture refers mainly to surveys exploring the perceptions of health professionals in hospitals. These surveys have less relevance when considering the assessment of the patient safety culture of medical students, especially at university or medical school. They are indeed not fully integrated in care units and constitute a heterogeneous population. T...

Pesticides generate transformation products (TPs) when they are released into the environment. These TPs may be of ecotoxicological importance. Past studies have demonstrated how difficult it is to predict the occurrence of pesticide TPs and their environmental risk. The monitoring approaches mostly used in current regulatory frameworks target only known ecotoxicologically relevant TPs. Here, w...

Professor Otto Lesch, with more than 30 years experience in the field, and his colleagues deal in this book with two substances -alcohol and tobaccoand the many aspects of their use, abuse and addiction: medical, psychiatric, psychological, biological, pharmacological, and sociological. Alcohol and nicotine abuse and addiction usually occur together. Therapeutic pharmacological, psychotherapeut...

In modern times, efforts to construct sustainable alternative neighbourhood scale developments date to isolated voluntary initiatives in 1970s Europe and the United States. Since about 2006, they have increased rapidly in popularity. They now go by many names: ecodistricts, écoquartiers, eco-cities, zero/low-carbon/carbon-positive cities, ecopolises, ecobarrios, One Planet Communities, and sola...

This paper introduces a first outline of a typology of distributed knowledge co-creation in virtual communities based on Porter‘s typology of virtual communities. The typology is based on empirical results from the analyses of social media, and a discussion of case study results from India proves the adaptability as well as usefulness of the typology. At the same time, the case study serves as ...