Recent events in the financial markets have pushed the global economy deeper into an economic slowdown. As companies around the world have lost significant market valuation, they are revisiting their growth projections and bracing themselves against a worsening outlook. Already we are seeing a noted increase in the U.S. unemployment rate to 6.5 percent in October 2008, with more than 1,000,000 ...

In this chapter, we present an industrial case study for the creation and usage of architectural knowledge. To establish the context of our usage of architectural knowledge, we introduce business domain, service portfolio, and knowledge management approach of the company involved in the case in a first section. In this first section, we briefly review general architectural concepts such as view...

Abstract Digitization within medium-sized enterprises advanced in the last years. Collecting and analyzing data for optimizing internal production processes therefor is current state of many companies. The next step digitization using this collected not only but cross company business models along value network. This brings new requirements how collected, stored shared. In paper those are liste...

BACKGROUND While most crisis intervention models adhere to a generalised theoretical framework, the lack of clarity around how these should be enacted has resulted in a proliferation of models, most of which have little to no empirical support. The primary aim of this research was to propose a suicide intervention model that would resolve the client's suicidal crisis by decreasing their suicida...

A1 Draft: The fishery for tunas and tuna-like fishes in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001, and outlook for 2002 A2 Draft: Status of yellowfin tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A3 Draft: Status of skipjack tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A4 Draft: Status of bigeye tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A5 Draft: ...