Résumé Summary Ce cas, basé sur des expériences personnelles ainsi que sur celles trouvées dans la littérature, met en évidence la tension délicate à laquelle sont confrontées les entreprises vouées au développement des médicaments soit d’équilibrer l’intégrité de la recherche et leur rentabilité. This case, based on personal experiences and on those found in the literature, highlights the deli...

We present the Message Bus (Mbus) [14], a lightweight, message oriented, infrastructure for ad-hoc composition of heterogeneous components. In this paper we describe the general Mbus architecture, the Mbus transport specification and higher-level services. It is shown how the Mbus fits into the multiparty multimedia conferencing architecture and can be used for decomposing conferencing applicat...

We describe a way to make the static analysis for the inthe-large part of the Common Algebraic Specification Language (Casl) independent of the underlying logic that is used for specification in-thesmall. The logic here is formalized as an institution with some extra components. Following the institution independent semantics of Casl in-the-large, we thus get an institution independent static a...

Background and Objectives: Motivated employees are probably the most valuable resource of the contemporary organizations. Evidence shows the significant impact of perceived organizational justice on the attitudes of employees, including their trust. To further investigate the issue in the context of health organizations, this study aimed to explore the relationship between perceived organizatio...

IO N Plasmonics has recently received a tremendous amount of attention, in particular, due to its potential for generating exceptionally large optical fi eld enhancements in cubic-nanometer volumes. Among the many unique features of plasmonic structures, this fi eld enhancement phenomenon has inspired researchers to construct refractive index sensors that utilize localized surface plasmon reson...

This study presents a case study carried out in a public Higher Education Institution (HEI) that adopted an ERP solution for its economic management processes. The objective of this study is twofold. First, we attempt to understand how the process of selection, implementation, use and maintenance of the ERP have evolved in the HEI. Second, we attempt to analyze how the different employee roles ...

Study developed in the Department of Biomechanics, Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Locomotor System of Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo-FMRP-USP. Mailing Address: Marisa de Cássia Registro Fonseca, Departamento de Biomecânica, Medicina e Reabilitação do Aparelho Locomotor. Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo FMRP-USP. Av. Ban...

This paper proposes a model for the structure and content of a university World Wide Web site, by a process of: (1) identifying who the site is serving and the information needs of these individuals or groups; (2) identifying institutional information needs; (3) relating this data to the content provided; (4) presenting the content in a manner suited to the characteristics and information needs...

Higher education (HE) in Germany and the United Kingdom is being continually subjected to the discipline of market forces. An empirical study was conducted using questionnaires with academic staff in twelve institutions in each country to discover the extent to which their values and attitudes were converging, and were in keeping with what might be expected within a marketized system. Academics...