The purpose of this research was to develop a strategy for the management of conflict between Fire and EMS personnel in the Edmonton Emergency Response Department. The research was undertaken employing both an historical research methodology and an action research methodology. Document analysis and interviews were used to gain an understanding of the premerger motives. Management literature on ...

Several different approaches to define the formal operational semantics of statecharts have been proposed in the literature, including visual techniques based on graph transformation. These visual approaches either define a compiler semantics (translating a concrete statechart into a semantical domain) or they define an interpreter using complex control and helper structures. Existing visual se...

A set of vertices S resolves a graph G if every vertex is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in S. The metric dimension of G is the minimum cardinality of a resolving set of G. Let {G1, G2, . . . , Gn} be a finite collection of graphs and each Gi has a fixed vertex v0i or a fixed edge e0i called a terminal vertex or edge, respectively. The vertex-amalgamation of G1, ...

Chemical vapour generation has been used in combination with atomic fluorescence spectrometry to determine mercury at ultratrace concentrations down to 0.1 ng L(-1). A time-based injection of 1 mL of solution for measurement was sufficient to generate a steady-state detector response in the direct mode of measurement. The detection limit calculated from a ten-point calibration curve according t...