Last spring -May 8, to be exact the Smithsonian Institution launched its first online exhibition, Ocean Planet, which examines the importance of oceans in our lives and which urges visitors to treat this resource with care. Based on an installation developed by the Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service, Ocean Planet is already scheduled to visit eleven cities by the year 2000. Even so, mos...

1 Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA, 2 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 4 Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, 5 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Nation...

In this paper, I describe our approach to simplified process visualization based on user’s role in the process. During our work on reference process model for universities in the Czech Republic, we have identified two different user groups of business processes diagrams. While the management of a university and process analysts need to see the whole process, tasks of every participant and commu...

As internal cloud, and cloud technologies widespread among companies, the responsibility of providing reliable IT infrastructure and adequate capacities became the top priority for companies. While internal clouds and related technologies creates the flexibility for customer, limited IT resources arise problems for providing capacities, that has impact on IT service quality. The presented resea...

of all patients having surgery on the pediatric plastic surgery service during two separate 3-month blocks bridged by a transition period for intervention implementation. In the pre-intervention group, resident reporting of complications was consistent with current practices at our institution where the chief resident on service reports complications prior to bi-monthly M&M conferences. Divisio...

Objective To associate the territory of identity with the production of care within a PCC focusing on children and adolescents with drug abuse and their institutional identity. Method We used the " process tracing methodology" in four research categories: focus groups, characterization of professionals, observing the everyday and interviewing two members of emblematic cases of the service. Resu...

of all patients having surgery on the pediatric plastic surgery service during two separate 3-month blocks bridged by a transition period for intervention implementation. In the pre-intervention group, resident reporting of complications was consistent with current practices at our institution where the chief resident on service reports complications prior to bi-monthly M&M conferences. Divisio...

This article investigates how social software such as blogs can be used to collect ideas generated by the users in the service innovation process. After a theoretical discussion of user involvement and more specifically user involvement using social software and interactive web-tools, the article reports the results from a field experiment at a university library. In the experiment, a blog was ...

During my service i;n the Voluntary Venereal Hospital, Alipore, I had occasion to make many injections of novarsenobillon. I have kept notes of this work, and as I have now left that institution, I am summarising the practical points in the hope that my experience may be of interest to those who have less frequent opportunities of using" this drug". I have already published in the Indian Medica...

As A part of the salvage program of the River Basin Surveys, a cooperative project between the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, in the prospective reservoir sites in the Missouri Valley, the Boysen Reservoir area near Shoshoni, Wyo., has been prospected for vertebrate fossils for parts of two seaso...