Illusions of grammaticality, where ungrammatical sentences are misperceived as grammatical (e.g. The key to the cabinets were rusty), have been widely studied during language comprehension. Such illusions influential in debate surrounding so-called representational and retrieval-based accounts linguistic dependency resolution. Whether analogous plausibility occur at level semantic interpretatio...

Leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors are offering new tools and solutions allowing co-ordination through centralized planning and control of the overall Supply Chain (SC); yet there are many SCs made up of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in which such an approach is not viable, since the components of the chain are not willing to give up their planning autonomy for co-ordinati...

The objective of this paper is to discuss how to use Information Technology to enable the staff at a mission-critical order packaging department to cope with a drastically increasing scale of operation. To reduce the risk of interrupting the production, a cultivation approach is adopted. We use co-ordination theory to analyse the current work setting and present a design proposal. The basic bui...

This paper presents the findings of an empirical study into the management of projects within a virtual environment. In a virtual project, co-workers can be both geographically and temporally dispersed. The control and co-ordination of the work output of the virtual project team is a key process for business success. Traditional project management techniques have been found wanting when applied...

Software engineering is based on many interdependent processes involving many interacting stakeholders with conflicting interests and points of view. The management of dependencies between stakeholders activities corresponds to the co-ordination process. This process plays a key role in software engineering notably because of the large use of networks, distributed computing and groupware techno...

Normal subjects and Parkinsonian patients performed a bimanual load lifting task. In this task, one "postural" forearm, held in a horizontal position while supporting a 1 kg weight, was unloaded either by the experimenter's hand (imposed unloading) or by the subject's other hand in response to a tone burst (voluntary unloading). The variables recorded were reaction time (RT: time interval betwe...