Developing successful knowledge management (KM) processes is extremely difficult. In general, a large number of all KM projects end unsuccessfully. The aim of this paper is to summarize and study the attempts to take advantage of Lessons Learned in the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF), focusing on international missions. Relevant reports, articles and literature have been studied. With the purpose o...

In 1923, renowned architect Le Corbusier authored what is largely considered to be the bestselling architecture book of all time, Vers Une Architecture ("Towards a New Architecture"). Within the pages of his impassioned manifesto, he claimed that “A house is a machine for living.” Architecture, he claimed, is able to improve people’s lives. For Le Corbusier, Victorian cities were chaotic and da...

We use both a string and a field theoretical approach in order to determine respectively the Kähler metrics of untwisted and twisted open strings attached to magnetized D9 branes in toroidal compactifications. Work partially supported by the European Community’s Human Potential Programme under contract MRTN-CT-2004-005104 “Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe”.

General morphological analysis (GMA) is a method for structuring and analyzing the total set of relationships contained in multi-dimensional, non-quantifiable problem complexes, and for synthesizing solution spaces. During the past 15 years, GMA has been extended, computerized and applied by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) for scenario development, long-term strategy management and or...

Agribusiness industries are facing numerous challenges and opportunities resulting from various fundamental forces. An understanding of the forces that are shaping and shifting the competitive landscape is useful to not only understand the strategic positioning decisions of the firms in these industries, but also the dramatic structural changes that are occurring in the food production, process...

Highly entitative sub-groups with strong ideologies ensure members are committed to the groups cause making disengagement a significant life event. This paper provides an insight into the current study of the psychological and social factors influencing the experience of personal disengagement from HESGIs. Semi-structured interviews were held with former members of one percent motorcycle clubs,...

This paper presents the preliminary findings of research into the disengagement from highly entitative and ideological social groups, such as one percent motorcycle clubs, military special forces and fundamental ideological groups. Using a grounded theory approach, the discourse of 25 former members identified the discrepancy between group membership and the self-concept as the core theme in th...

(thank you Brian, Roni, Paddy for putting together a wonderful workshop ! Workshop addressed issues of light dark matter and " dark forces " –possible new interactions of dark sector)

Limnologists and water resources managers have traditionally perceived lakes as discrete geographical entities. This has resulted in a tendency for scientific lake studies to concentrate on lakes as individuals, with little connection either to each other or to large-scale driving forces. Since the 1990s, however, a shift in the prevailing paradigm has occurred, with lakes increasingly being se...

This paper interprets regional economic sustainability in the context of the globalization of late-coming regions. Drawing upon the concept of strategic coupling from economic geography, this paper proposes two types of strategic coupling, captive and proactive coupling, for better understanding regional sustainability and resilience through the experiences of the Pearl River Delta in China. It...