Since it first emerged more than a decade ago, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been both widely praised as a modern and agile approach to software development and infrastructure architecture and dismissed as a colossal waste of time and money. Far from being dead, however, service oriented architecture is in fact more relevant than ever. The key challenge for companies is to determine h...

Online communities are popular sites for collective sensemaking. This study explores sensemaking in one such community following the closure of Olint Corp, a highly successful Jamaican investment club. After Olint’s disbanding, Jamaicans reconnected through online communities to make sense of their financial losses, to make sense of Olint – seen variously as an altruistic endeavour, a global cu...

HUDSON, Oct. 2 — The Civil Service Employees Association has urged the salary committee of the Columbia County board of supervisors to consider a general salary adjustment for county employees and a revision of the county's present classification and salary plan. The two-step proposal was made j but^a few'Ynstancesi at a meeting of the salary com$2,000 of salary or fraction thereof 3. Five per ...

As documented with examples in this special issue of Ambio, the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) Programme in its first 20 years has focused on both detailed and very comprehensive studies of specific ecosystems in order to monitor and understand ecosystem patterns and processes. An international review of GEM conducted in 2015 praised the programme for its comprehensiveness, but also saw a...

The New Zealand government has been praised for heeding scientific advice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it comes environmental protections seems be negotiable. Freshwaters have decline decades, despite clear science on limits needed protect them. There are many examples of ‘shifting baselines’, where progressively weakened through agency regulatory capture and political expedie...

eulogizing has been quite common in the arabic literature for centures, and in terms of its theme, it has various sort which eulogizing our holy prophet is the most significant type. eulogizing him emerged in his time. the eulogizers praised his ethics , various moralities, different virtues, his pure ancestors, his nice ways of life, his love and affection toward people, etc. shoghi is one of ...

Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, that output evaluations in academic research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take place. Secondly,...

Praised for its revolutionary technique and studied for its perplexing imagery, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait has remained a riddle since the 19th century. Completed in 1434 in Bruges, the work showcases a skilled use of oil paints and impressively realistic details. More famous and perhaps more important, however, than van Eyck’s technique are the two figures and the objects which decorate...

practices, then in medicine and textile industry, and over the last few decades they have become the world’s most popular and widespread drug drug. The history of cannabis consumption goes back several thousand years when it originated in Asia. The first references to cannabis can be found in Chinese and Indian writings such as Vedian hymns and Indian religious songs, dated back to the first mi...

old son was a persistent bed-wetter. The trouble started when he was around three, though he had been completely trained at 18 months. It began with the odd wet bed, gaining momentum fast until he was never dry. We did everything the experts advised?never scolded, loved him more, praised his prowess in other spheres. We surreptitiously docked off evening drinks and began again the business of t...