In the manufacturing and construction industries, performance measurement is used as a systematic way of judging project performance by evaluating the inputs, outputs and the final project outcomes. However, very few companies systematically measure their performance in a holistic way. Moreover, the existing systems tend to focus more on product and less on process and design. This can lead to ...

TRAVIS L. HEDMAN, PT*; CHARLES D. QUICK, OTR/L†; REGINALD L. RICHARD, MS, PT‡; EVAN M. RENZ, MD§; STEVEN V. FISHER, MD¥; ELIZABETH A. RIVERS, OTR, RN¶; JAMES C. CASEY, MOT, OTR/L**; KEVIN K. CHUNG, MD††; PETER A. DESOCIO, DO‡‡; WILLIAM S. DEWEY, PT, CHT, OCS§§; JAIME L. DROOK, OTR/L¥¥; NICOLE J. LEHNERZ, OTR/L¶¶; CHRISTOPHER V. MAANI, MD***; ALFREDO E. MONTALVO, MSN, BSN, APN†††; BETH A. SHIELD...

The incorporation of increasing core counts in modern processors used to build state-of-the-art supercomputers is driving application development towards exploitation of thread parallelism, in addition to distributed memory parallelism, with the goal of delivering efficient high-performance codes. In this work we describe the exploitation of threading and our experiences with it with respect to...

The market for information technology outsourcing has seen significant growth in the last decade (GartnerGroup, 1998). Companies use IT outsourcing to increase the efficiency of their globalization process, while maintaining core competency strength. As a result, the ability to manage effective IT outsourcing projects is of utmost important to the success of IT managers (Sambamurthy & Zmud, 200...

In the early 1990s many private (and some State) schools in Victoria, Australia, developed a laptop program. As a consequence, the main focus of computer use in schools became, “Do you have a laptop program?” For some time the question of computer use in the curriculum became a question of whether every student had access to a computer. Many schools, however chose not have a laptop program. How...

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) has been a force in education for more than 25 years. Yet WAC in chemistry might seem still something of a mystery, especially for the chemist new to teaching or to the language studies teacher unfamiliar with conventions of thinking and writing in chemistry. Fortunately, teachers in higher education who wish to explore the uses of writing in chemistry have a...

Two different technologies, groupware (a shared workspace) and shared wireless laptop computers, were implemented in a project design class in a civil engineering course. The research interest was in the way these technologies supported resource sharing within and across project groups and in the forms of group collaboration that resulted. The initiative was evaluated using both qualitative (e....