Organizational Design: Formalisation Verses Specialisation

Intelligent Support for Problem Formalisation in Design

Engineering design is a kind of human activity that makes use of many different knowledge sources. Basically, this may be well-structured explicit, domain specific knowledge or tacit, implicit and experience-based knowledge. Both types of knowledge have their particular roles in design, and thus in knowledge-based design support systems. In this paper several issues concerning knowledge-based d...

Ontology Design Pattern Property Specialisation Strategies

Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) show potential in enabling simpler, faster, and more correct Ontology Engineering by laymen and experts. For ODP adoption to take off, improved tool support for ODP use in Ontology Engineering is required. This paper presents and evaluates the effects of strategies for object property specialisation in ODPs, and suggests tool improvements based on those strategies.

Organizational Learning and Organizational Design

Approach This paper explores a new idea presenting the possible relationship between organizational learning and organizational design. The establishment of this relation is based upon extensive literature review. Findings Organizational learning theory has been used to understand several organizational phenomena, like resources and competencies, tacit knowledge or the role of memory in the org...

Hydropneumothorax verses Simple Pneumothorax

Three cases are presented to compare and contrast the radiographic findings in hydropneumothorax versus simple pleural effusion. The first case is of a 72-year-old man with metastatic colon cancer presenting with worsening shortness of breath. Post-thoracentesis chest radiographs (Fig 1) and CT (Fig 2) demonstrate a hydropneumothorax. The second case is of a 67 year-old male with non-small cell...

Running Head: PREDNISOLONE VERSES DEXAMETHASONE