In this paper we discuss a study of the expression of procedural relations in multilingual user instructions~ in particular the relations of Gene,ution and Enablement. These procedural relations are defined in terms of a plan representation model, and applied in a corpus study of English, French, and Portuguese instructions. The results of our analysis indicate specific guidelines for the tacti...

This overview paper describes the key steps taken by IBM to transform the S/390@ mainframe platform and to enhance customer satisfaction with improvements in cost, scalability, and application enablement. The effectiveness of the transformation is discussed in the context of performance and reliability, and the significance of cluster architecture is defined. Finally, mainframe resurgence is di...

The influences of Lawrence Bragg and Max Perutz are evident in the contemporary emphasis on 'structural enablement' in drug discovery. On this occasion of the centenary of Bragg's equation, his role in supporting the earliest structural studies of biological materials at the Cavendish Laboratory is remembered. The 1962 Nobel Prizes for the structures of DNA and proteins marked the golden annive...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic shows that the impact of effective vaccines extends well beyond vaccinated individuals and healthcare systems. Yet, these externalities are not typically considered in health technology assessments (HTA) which may underestimate vaccines’ broader value. We explored to what extent future relevant England might exhibit such Methods compared ten value elements an ...

Businesses are increasingly outsourcing key operations and interacting with ever extending nets of partners. Running extended business-to-business (B2B) operations creates the need for more advanced human interaction while advancing the automation base of B2B functions. In this paper, we introduce a model for on-demand business process-based collaboration, namely, Extended Business Collaboratio...

Organizations contemplating standardized technology adoption are confronted both by the potential for internal capability gains and by inter-organizational forces. Although such technologies may appear imitable and non-strategic, they can enable idiosyncrasies and strategic gains through their interaction with other resources possessed by firms. Based on Barney’s original 1991 thesis on the res...

Abstract Refugee women from the Near and Middle East face specific challenges when entering Austrian labour market. Particularly gender-based factors, including care reproductive work, exert pressure on these constitute major hurdles for successful entry into employment in Austria. Based nine qualitative interviews with refugee who swiftly gained to market as well ten experts public private sup...