Human capital has become the principal competitive advantage for many businesses in today's increasingly specialized marketplace. In order to protect human capital, no-hire agreements have become boilerplate provisions in many types of contracts. Despite their prevalence, these agreements have not been uniformly and predictably enforceable, due to conflicting methods of interpretation from stat...

12 This white paper was commissioned by the Florida Onsite Wastewater Association, Inc. (FOWA), a nonprofit corporation, and is intended to examine the status of Florida’s water recycling efforts and offer sound choices for future water management efforts. A stated purpose of the organization’s bylaws is “to protect and maintain the environment of the state of Florida . . ..”[1]. Likewise, deve...

The authors are involved in a project aiming at the development of a methodology for participatory modeling (DEMO) as a tool for public participation in water resource management. In this paper, some examples of different degrees of stakeholder influence in six key dimensions of participatory modeling are identified and discussed. Arnstein’s (1969) critical discussion of different degrees of “r...

Problem Statement Agricultural water management (AWM) is not a goal in itself but part of a process of resource management that provides a critical input to agricultural production and farmer incomes. Today, huge losses in irrigation systems and poor water management practices worsen the water crises that already exist. Water users were surveyed in order to explore their perception about the fa...

Counterinsurgency (COIN) operations start with discipline – the discipline to understand and execute a balance between kinetic and non-kinetic operations in shaping the battlespace and specific Target Audiences (TAs). Kinetic operations are actions in the battlespace that involve direct fires, indirect fires and other resources specifically intended to violently kill the enemy. Non-kinetic oper...

During the last decade medical education in Austria has seen more changes than in the whole of the previous century, with a complete overhaul of the structure of undergraduate curricula. Curricula now are organized in thematic, integrated modules, students have early patient encounters, the number of examinations has been drastically reduced, objective examinations have been introduced througho...

The applications solve a specific business problem by providing a user with seamless interaction with remote information resources, remote application resources, and remote human resources The identities of the resources to be used are mostly unknown at the time that the application is developed The pattern of interaction (workflow) among the resources is a critical part of the application, but...

Managing innovation The development of health services world wide has been piecemeal and uncoordinated. Some control has been exerted over health service resources by controlling capital and by manpower strategies, but these are relatively crude methods largely concerned with control of resources and not with quality of health care provided. The main determinant of the quality of health care is...

There were great differences between Chinese ancient culture and Greek ancient culture, both originated almost in the same time—about 500 BC, like two long rivers, both flowed to different historical directions. As a result, Europe after Renaissance inherited and developed the cultural tradition of ancient Greece, thus, European modern science-technology developed faster and faster as time went...

We present the representation and acquisition of semantic objects maps (SOMs) that can serve as information resources for autonomous service robots performing everyday manipulation tasks in kitchen environments. These maps provide the robot with information about its operation environment that enable it to perform fetch and place tasks more efficiently and reliably. To this end, the semantic ob...