There is also an entirely pragmatic argument for supporting management agendas: experience shows that in order to attain the engagement of the faculty, it is necessary to obtain the support of the institutional management. But in order to gain management support, a repository has to demonstrate a measureable and effective contribution to current management agendas and concerns – e.g. research m...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Perioperative nutrition has been extensively studied, but numerous questions remain unanswered. This review focuses on new developments in nutrient delivery in the immediate perioperative period. Issues specifically addressed include which patients are most likely to benefit from perioperative nutritional supplementation, and the optimal route, timing, and quantity of nutrient...

Typical software metrics and measurements (e.g. code coverage, McCabe complexity, OO metrics, etc) target the technical professionals in a software development organization. While this is useful to the practitioners in the trenches, the managers and executives of these organizations face a broader set of issues. In order to make better decisions, the collection of business and software engineer...

This paper describes the initial design of a device to support the management of medication in a community care environment. From requirements identified through ethnographic study, the proposed medication manager offers an interface that reduces confusion for the residents of the care facility whilst also supporting the learning of self-management skills required for independent living. The pr...

Mobility is a characteristic that can be applied to software which allows it to move between machines. However, since this in itself is such a broad definition, it is important to note that the movement of programs is fundamentally different to the movement of executing software; the former being primarily a data transfer operation and the latter involving capturing some notion of the state of ...

Scenario planning is a widely accepted management tool for decision support activities. Scenario planning, development, organisation, analysis, and evaluation are generally quite complex processes. Systems that purport to support these processes are complex and difficult to use and do not fully support all phases of scenario management. Though traditional Decision Support Systems (DSS) provide ...