continued from page one, block 19 discussion on issues and activities that could help the Department of Defense (DoD) to dealmore effectively with the requirements of mission-critical systems. The SEI workshop built uponwork performed previously at the Requirements Engineering and Rapid Prototyping Workshopheld by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Center for S...

1. Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8126, Institut Fédératif de Recherche 54, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. 2. University Hospital CHUV, Pediatric Oncology Research, Department of Pediatrics, Lausanne, Switzerland. § Current address: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Rd., MS-977-225A, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 3....

Objectives: This study measures the association between hospital staff’s job strain (JS), mental quality of life (MQL) and how they are influenced by the organization models within emergency and critical care units. Material and Methods: This study describes workers employed in emergency departments and intensive care units of a French public hospital. A selfadministered questionnaire was used ...

organizations are networks of unites and individuals enhancing organizational performance through cooperation and synergy. it is achieved by developing meaningful and purposeful communications of unites and individuals .thus, it is essential to make organizational communications efficient in order to achieve organizational purposes. in this essay, we examined the variables and factors affecting...

Publisher's statement The following article appeared in NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS ICNAAM 2011: International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, 19–25 September 2011, Halkidiki, (Greece), : 977-980 and may be found at http://dx.doi/org/10.1063/1.3637773 . The article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the au...

The paper outlines the design and implementation of end-user applications for interaction, networking and community building in a shared collaboration environment. It covers features, data model, architecture and graphic user interface of the Chat tools, dedicated for synchronous communications in shared space. Two types of chat tools, which aim to support working with the common objects across...

Petra Reinhardt is working as Marketing Communications Manager with ABB Switzerland Ltd., Power Systems, Baden/Switzerland after having gained several years experience in substation automation and protection in Switzerland and South Africa where she has been working as sales engineer and key account manager. www.abb.com/substationautomation The high acceptance of IEC 61850 resulted in the imple...

The delayed delivery of the AIRBUS A380© demonstrates the challenges to be faced in the field of cross-company collaboration today. On the one hand, available CWE platforms are used insufficiently. On the other hand, they do not yet support collaboration in a completely adequate way. This paper illustrates the current state of CWE practice by way of a sample company, its internal and external c...

Recent advances in networking environments and telecommunications have led to the proliferation of teams that do not work face-to-face but interact over a computermediated communications network. Although some have asserted that virtual teams transcend boundaries of time or distance, others have claimed that working remotely in a mediated team environment differs in significant ways from workin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the correlation of total lymphocyte count (TLC) and CD4 cell count and the suitability of TLC as a surrogate marker for CD4 cell count of HIV-infected patients in China. METHODS Usefulness of TLC as a surrogate marker for a CD4 cell count <350 cells/mm(3) for HIV-positive patients in China was evaluated by 977 pairs of TLC and CD4 cell count from 977 outpatients. The res...