Background: ‘Embedded research’ (co-locating researchers within non-academic organisations) is advocated as a way of developing more effective services through better creation and application knowledge. Aims objectives: The existing literature on embedded initiatives has largely been descriptive. There less in the analysis, for example, disaggregating components such schemes, unpacking underpin...

This article offers a socio-historical view of how families make living and contribute to business formation. We review the history family changes that occurred over last several hundred years in developed nations – decline corporate family, increasing occupational opportunities for women, multigenerational families, growing proportion never-married childless adults suggest embeddedness perspec...

The FP7-ICT collaborative project GENESYS (GENeric Embedded SYStem Platform) has started on January 1st 2008 and is aiming to give birth to novel technologies for embedded computer systems that are of universal importance across individual application domains. The research results will enable significant improvements concerning time-to-market, cost, and robustness for a wide range of applicatio...

In the last 10 years, implementation research has come to play a critical role in improving the implementation of already-proven health interventions by promoting the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based strategies into routine practice. The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Pan American Health Organization implemented a program of embedded imple...

Current co-design methodologies of control dominated hardware software systems su er from ine cient hardware (HW) and software (SW) synthesis of the various reactive system tasks. In order to improve synthesis quality, we propose a methodology that incorporates data ow in addition to control optimizations performed on a suitable task representation in a hardware and software co-design environme...

Standards concerned with the development of safety-critical systems, and the software in such systems in particular, abound today as the software crisis increasingly aaects the world of embedded computer-based systems. The use of formal methods is often advocated as a way of increasing conndence in such systems. This paper examines the industrial use of these techniques, the recommendations con...