Strategic implementation is an elemental step in revolving a company's vision and objectives into reality. To implement strategies successfully is critical for not only public but also for private organizations. Without proper implementation, even the most superior and fine strategy would not make the grade as established. In last few decades, a number of articles have been published to underst...

Currently, the strategy implementation is believed to be a dynamic activity within strategic management process. The main objective of this research is to examine the structural relationships between strategy implementation and performance within the small and medium manufacturing firms. In order to implement strategy effectively, it is crucial to consider several organizational issues. The lit...

Recently, with the advance of human genome decoding and pharmacogenomics, issues on ethnic and population differences have taken the center stage in the new drug approval process. Since most of the new medicines were developed in western countries, the efficacy and safety of a drug was generally established based on Caucasian majority. Whether the foreign clinical data could be naively extrapol...

Context Many applications can be represented as a graph with a set of nodes connected by edges. The nodes and edges usually represent computation and communication. Each node and edge can have a weight that represents a particular cost of executing the computation or communication associated with it. In order to efficiently exploit parallelism in such problems, we need to decompose them among p...

This paper describes the design of Portfolio and its application at FH JOANNEUM in a range of contexts where it will be used to make learning outcomes visible and to facilitate personal development planning. The flexibility of the ePortfolio architecture is appraised and the integration with virtual learning environments is discussed. Preliminary findings from evaluation studies (feedback / dat...

Over the last few years, machine translation (MT) has transformed from an academic research platform into a productivity or gisting tool adopted by several end users. In this talk, I will describe some of the business and technical MT-related challenges faced by language service providers nowadays. I will describe the approach we take at bmmt GmbH to create innovative industry solutions driven ...

A major international experiment on ammonia (NH 3) biosphere-atmosphere exchange was conducted over intensively managed grassland at Braunschweig, Germany. The experimental strategy was developed to allow an integrated analysis of different features of NH 3 exchange including: a) quantification of nearby emissions and advection 5 effects, b) estimation of net NH 3 fluxes with the canopy by a ra...

Visual Environment for DIstributed Content Integration (VEDICI) introduces the concept of distributed component run-time application building. Users can dynamically construct VEDICI applications from reusable components in a visual data-flow environment that can be accessed through the Internet. VEDICI can be implemented with commonly used technologies such as XML [1], CORBA [2, 3] and Java [4]...