BACKGROUND Increasingly, multiple intervention programming is being understood and implemented as a key approach to developing public health initiatives and strategies. Using socio-ecological and population health perspectives, multiple intervention programming approaches are aimed at providing coordinated and strategic comprehensive programs operating over system levels and across sectors, all...

Two components of cortical circuits could mediate contour integration in primary visual cortex (V1): intrinsic horizontal connections and feedback from higher cortical areas. To distinguish between these, we combined functional mapping with a new technique for labeling axons, a recombinant adenovirus bearing the gene for green fluorescent protein (GFP), to determine the extent, density, and ori...

Increased vertical and horizontal integration of enterprises is seen as one of the critical success factors for the future development of the agri-food sector. This integration can be stimulated by creating innovation-oriented initiatives in networks that collaborate on problems related e.g. to quality planning, improvements in logistics or tracking and tracing. Collaborative working environmen...

With the advent of time-based competition, the speed with which new products can be developed and introduced into a market is an important managerial aspect of time-based strategy. The relationship between the allocation of decision-making power within organization and new product development (NPD) speed is investigated empirically using Chinese data. The results of correlation analysis show th...

The kappa effect is an illusion involving spatiotemporal integration in the cognitive process and is demonstrated with three successive signals delimiting two neighboring empty time intervals. The present experiment was conducted with single time intervals delimited by two signals, instead of three, to examine whether perceived duration would be modulated by space. Each of the two flashes was d...

Interoperability is an important pre-condition for achieving higher stages of e-government and further ensures that a one stop portal will become a reality. Interoperability results from vertical and horizontal integration. The question arises: How can the level of interoperability and degree of integration be ascertained? This paper suggests a framework. It begins by identifying critical facto...

In the past few years, many Information Technology (IT) departments have been vastly expanded or created, and new processes have come into existence. With these increasing numbers of elements, organizations face the challenge of process integration. They must seek to integrate what are often rapidly changing sets of procedures to make processes work synergistically and maximize the return from ...

1 Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Engineering Technology Dept., Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 98225-9086, [email protected] Abstract – This paper describes two, two-course sequences that are vertically integrated through design projects. This integration allows students to learn more effectively, to more easily make connections between topics, and to learn other important skills . Vertic...

Contour integration is believed to be a fundamental process in object recognition and image segmentation. However, its neuronal mechanisms are still not well understood. Psychophysical experiments showed that humans are remarkably efficient in integrating contours even if these are jittered or partially occluded. Therefore the brain requires a reliable algorithm for extracting contours from sti...

In the Simon task, participants respond faster when the task-irrelevant stimulus position and the response position are corresponding, for example on the same side, compared to when they have a non-corresponding relation. Interestingly, this Simon effect is reduced after non-corresponding trials. Such sequential effects can be explained in terms of a more focused processing of the relevant stim...