The Asia Pacific region, and especially East Asia, has experienced rapid economic integration without the ‘hard politics’ of legally binding economic and political treaties, unlike Europe where integration has been institution-led. The ‘soft politics’ and market-led integration in East Asia set against a background of political tensions and rivalries in key relationships in the region. The pape...

BACKGROUND In Japan, only clinical research related to investigational new drug trials must be notified to regulatory bodies, and this lack of a uniform standard for clinical research has caused a number of difficulties. The objective of this study was to assess the willingness of physicians to participate in clinical research and to identify effective methods to promote and enhance clinical re...

bstract: In the IMS-project Globeman21, the enterprise reference architecture GERAM was used as basis for creation of a virtual enterprise framework model. The model was used to map different industrial pilot projects, to classify virtual enterprise concepts, and as underlying structure for a virtual enterprise management methodology. The paper gives a survey of the use of GERAM and the results...

Regression methods are used to model fault detection effectiveness in terms of several product and testing process measures. The relative importance of these product/process measures for predicting fault detection effectiveness is assessed for a specific data set. A substantial family of models is considered, specifically, the family of quadratic response surface models with two-way interaction...

In this paper we try to answer the question as to whether insider trading disclosures convey valuable information to market participants, valuable in the sense of the profitability of an investment strategy that faithfully mirrors insider behaviour. Our interest in this subject is limited to the case of announcements concerning insider transactions issued over a six-year period on the Warsaw St...

0026-2714/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.microrel.2009.05.002 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 914524400; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.A. M (P. Reviriego). Errors caused by radiation are a major problem for memories that have to operate in harsh environments. To evaluate the effects of radiation, memories are normally tested by exposing them to known rad...

A growing body of research has examined the potential for positive change following challenging and traumatic events, this is known as posttraumatic growth. Childbirth is a valuable opportunity to extend previous work on posttraumatic growth as it allows the role of different variables to be considered prospectively. The aim of the current study was to prospectively examine correlates of posttr...

Many enterprises today struggle with the challenge of using the full potential of ICT for a rapid creation of global customer focused, efficient and effective virtual enterprises. This paper presents a Virtual Enterprise Reference Architecture (based on the draft international standard GERAM) to serve as a common integrating basis for these efforts, recognising the global challenge for common u...

This paper proposes a two-level model that integrates tense and aspect information, based on theories by both Hornstein (in the spirit of Reichenbach) and Allen, with lexicai-semantic information based on an extended version of $ackendoff's theory that includes a verb classification system proposed by Dowty and Vendler. The model is intended to be extensible to realms outside of the temporal do...

Die Software-Produktlinienentwicklung erlaubt die Entwicklung ähnlicher Software-Systeme zu geringen Kosten, in kurzer Zeit und zudem mit steigender Qualität. Zahlreiche Erfahrungen aus der Industrie belegen diese Vorteile der Produktlinienentwicklung gegenüber der Entwicklung von Einzel-SoftwareSystemen. Der Schlüssel für die Software-Produktlinienentwicklung ist die Unterscheidung zwischen zw...