This paper presents a teleological process theory of software design in organizations. The proposed theory is compared to the Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) Framework – a leading process theory of engineering design proposed by John Gero. A positivist, multiple case study methodology to empirically compare the veracity and predictive power of the two theories described. Results from a pilo...

A number of machine learning models have been applied to a prediction or classification task of diabetes. These models either tried to categorise patients into insulin and non-insulin, or anticipate the patients’ blood surge rate. Most medical experts have realised that there is a great relationship between patient’s symptoms with some chronic diseases and the blood sugar rate. This paper propo...

This paper presents a co-operation technique of channel assignment (CA) for indoor base stations (BSs). Indoor BSs are most of the time deployed by users in an ad-hoc manner which makes prior network planning by network operators impossible. If the same pool of radio resources (e.g channels) is used by close BSs, co-operation between these BSs is vital for resolving problems such as interferenc...

F. Simon, ∗ B. Dóra, 2 F. Murányi, A. Jánossy, S. Garaj, L. Forró, S. Bud’ko, C. Petrovic , and P. C. Canfield Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Institute of Physics and Condensed Matter Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany Institute of Physics of ...

To gain the full benefit from this new business strategy, it must be fully embraced by top management. It is also important to understand that this concept may be more accurately described as lean thinking instead of lean production. Using the “lean thinking” terminology ensures that the concept is viewed as a total business model, including product development, design and sales. Lean thinking ...

Plastic waste is increasing every year and the precise time needed for biodegradation is unknown. Environmental awareness has driven the development of new biodegradable materials, especially for single use plastic items. Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), biodegradable thermoplastic polyester is emerging out as a boon to overcome the problem of plastic waste accumulation. However, it has some drawback...

The aim in this study was to investigate the emergence of immediate imitation, deferred imitation and synchronic imitation in human infants through the second year. A longitudinal study was conducted of eighty-six infants at three monthly intervals from 12through to 24-months-of-age. At each session the infants were assessed for immediate, deferred and synchronic imitation. Immediate and deferr...

Methods All consecutive JIA patients aged 10-24 years were asked to participate in this observational follow-up study. Demographic and disease related items were obtained yearly as well as Tanner puberty stages: Pubic Hair Girls (PHG), Breast stage (Bre), Menarche (Men), Pubic Hair Boys (PHB), Genital Stage (Gen). Reference Values were obtained from the Dutch National Growth Study. Median age a...

In this paper, we consider femtocell CR networks, where femto base stations (FBS) are deployed to greatly improve network coverage and capacity. We investigate the problem of generic data multicast in femtocell networks. We reformulate the resulting MINLP problem into a simpler form, and derive upper and lower performance bounds. Then we consider three typical connection scenarios in the femtoc...

Interaction in teams brings together team members’ knowledge and drives innovation by shaping and reshaping ideas transiting through phases of collaboration. Organisations increasingly rely on teams in the hope that collaboration improves problem-solving or decision-making, especially in highly dynamic environments which require quick and reliable development, sharing, and application of knowle...