Study of the varied metaphorical levels of the Book of Mormon continues to yield new insights into the message and meaning of that book. Several prominent typological readings of aspects of the Book of Mormon have been published, but despite calls for such an effort, little inquiry into its possible archetypal levels, or what has been called “the mythic dimension” of the book, has yet been unde...

BPM governance is a key factor to ensure the successful deployment of BPM across an organization. BPM governance emphasizes not only the accountability and control of BPM initiatives, but also provides the mechanisms to ensure that BPM delivers desirable results. Despite growing research identifying the importance of BPM governance, there has been limited number of empirical studies investigati...

The pharmaceutical industry is in a R&D productivity crisis. Rapidly increasing development costs, decreasing profitability of new medical entities and missing breakthrough innovations are negatively affecting the future of the pharmaceutical industry. This complex problem requires a systems thinking approach to find effective solutions. In this study, a general pharmaceutical R&D productivity ...

OpenEHR specifications have been developed to standardise the representation of an international electronic health record (EHR). The language used for querying EHR data is not as yet part of the specification. To fill in this gap, Ocean Informatics has developed a query language currently known as EHR Query Language (EQL), a declarative language supporting queries on EHR data. EQL is neutral to...

A semantically interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) is one of the most challenging research fields of health informatics. EHR standards that formally describe health data structures are a prerequisite for sharing medical records. CEN EN13606 is one of the most promising approaches to solve this problem since it covers the technical needs for semantic interoperability and, at the same ti...

Today, great interest in the Ancient Goddess cult is still being revived. With the way the Goddess manifests herself as symbolizing an earthly and cosmic source to the universe, some women have found refuge in the symbolical image of the Mother Goddess. The impetus towards the Goddess movement came from an archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas. With the return of the Goddess, the new power of the femi...