For the last 10 years, I’ve been on both sides of utilization review (UR). As a practicing physician, I know what it’s like to get “those calls.” As a part-time utilization reviewer, I’m usually satisfied with the interactions I have with physicians and the information I get from them. When a telephone review seems unsatisfactory, it’s often because I feel I’m speaking a different language than...

1. INTRODUCTION Due to the progress in microprocessor and digital signal processing technologies , modern noise monitoring equipment offers increased performance. Current " sound-level meters " provide much more sophisticated measurements than old-fashioned sound-levels, like statistical and spectral analysis, or noise event recording. Moreover, there is actually a trend toward integrating nois...

The development of methods to obtain, refine, and communicate the informed judgments of knowledgeable people is one of the most crucial problems in planning and decisionmaking. The task is particularly challenging in the Michigan Sea Grant Program, which emphasizes a systems approach by a multidisciplinary group of researchers. Some of these researchers are experts in extremely specialized area...

The new challenging business environment recognizes the exploitation of the intellectual capital as a critical business process. Furthermore the need of the modern organizations to utilize their knowledge assets that are employed for the achievement of performance is more than ever well justified. Our paper discusses an advanced KM system, which is partially developed under an IST project calle...

PURPOSE Enabling valuable research findings to be used by the field requires a strategic approach to dissemination and utilization rather than simply making constituencies aware of the information. This article describes a conceptual framework for the dissemination and utilization of information, along with examples of its use by the Boston University Roybal Center for Enhancement of Late Life ...

The amount of information on the World Wide Web (WWW) is increasing at an explosive rate, and the role of computer systems in processing such a huge amount of data has become crucial. In this paper, we focus on the name disambiguation problem when searching for people, because information about people is an important part of the web and improvements to personal information may benefit many web ...

This paper presents the possibility to utilize Balanced Scorecard knowledge in software process improvement. The research is a case study in a Finnish software company where the author has been working as a quality manager and a product manager. Main focus is to introduce aspects of making visible the business factors of software process improvement steps. The balanced scorecard approach is int...