Résumé. Depuis l’émergence du concept des patrons de conception, plusieurs chercheurs se sont intéressés à offrir de l’aide aux concepteurs pour faciliter la mise en œuvre des patrons de conception. Cette dernière est très utilisée dans l’approche par Objets. Cependant l’approche par Objets pose plusieurs problèmes et limites, principalement liés à la dispersion et à l’enchevêtrement du code de...

OBJECTIVE To assess long term compliance with the California Smoke-Free Workplace Law in Los Angeles County freestanding bars and bar/restaurants. DESIGN Population based annual site inspection survey of a random sample of Los Angeles County freestanding bars and bar/restaurants was conducted from 1998 to 2002. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The primary outcomes of interest were patron and employee ...

Karen S. Fischer is Collection Analysis Librarian, Michael Wright is Interim Associate University Librarian, Collections and Scholarly Communication, Hope Barton is Associate University Librarian, Main Library Services, and Edward Shreeves is Associate University Librarian, Collections and Scholarly Communication (Retired) in Main Library at University of Iowa. Kathleen Clatanoff is Collection ...

ho was Hermes? The great 19th century German mythographer, W.H.Roscher, identified Hermes as the wind, subsuming under this basic identity all of his other roles and attributes Hermes as servant and messenger of the sky god Zeus, Hermes as swift and winged, Hermes as thief and bandit, Hermes as inventor of the pipes and lyre, Hermes as guide of souls and as god of dreams and sleep, Hermes as pr...

RÉSUMÉ. La description d’un patron de conception ne se résume pas à la solution généralement semi-formelle et limitée à un diagramme de classes. L’application (imitation) d’un patron est certes dépendante des rubriques solutions mais bon nombre d’informations utiles à cette opération sont disponibles dans d’autres rubriques. Le concepteur de patrons y détaille souvent des variantes pour sa solu...

Agricultural cooperatives are often viewed as appropriate vehicles to facilitate vertical coordination with, or horizontal integration between, small farmers who would otherwise be excluded from value-adding opportunities and discerning markets. In South Africa, renewed interest in development-oriented cooperatives saw the introduction of a new Cooperatives Act in 2005, along with support measu...

Very often product development is seen as a process where designers iterate through several design cycles until they converge upon a design that satisfies all of the necessary requirements—design within a single generation. If one takes the view that products change (i.e. adapt and evolve), a broader view must be adopted to capture the drivers of design adaptation across multiple product genera...

Numerous publications on patron-driven acquisition (PDA) for print books and similar materials have reported that patronrequested materials circulate more. Tying circulation to selector may be failing to address the complex of factors that contributes to items’ circulation. In the present study, the authors revisit a PDA program’s data and to determine whether PDA print books’ circulation advan...