Soil functions, including climate regulation and the cycling of water nutrients, are central importance for a number environmental issues great societal concern. To understand manage these it is crucial to be able quantify structure soils, now increasingly referred as their “architecture,” constraints physical, chemical biological processes in soils. This quantification was traditionally approa...

Agile development practices focus on developing and delivering working software systems in small iterations with minimal documentation. However, locally project focused agile practices overlook the need for holistic enterprise architecture. Lack of enterprise architecture in agile, especially in the large agile environments, may lead to a number of problems such as technical debt, unnecessary r...

This paper discusses the concept of model driven system architecture development for the automotive industry. It outlines best practices and methods and introduces specific abstraction layers for complexity reduction. A common standardised Automotive Architecture Framework is postulated to allow common description structures, increase re-use and better collaboration within the automotive value ...

The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) business excellence model is widely recognized as a representative theory to improve traditional Total Quality Management (TQM) by expanding the narrow quality-oriented concept into a holistic management concept. The EFQM model, an integrative business system, covers all management activities composed of input, process, and output (Black et ...

Heavy machinery in today’s process industry is equipped with an increasing number of sensors for control and maintenance purposes. Each sensor is engineered and configured for a dedicated purpose; thus, the data or information provided by each sensor is confined to a specific purpose. Changing this individual approach to a holistic approach for control, operation and maintenance allows the data...

The small acmaeid limpet Patelloida lat istr~gata Angas and clumps of macroalgae are found in midshore intertidal regions dominated by barnacles. Interactions between limpet and algae were investigated experimentally to determine the effect of the herbivore on microalgae (this term includes propagules of macroalgae) as well as on macroalgal plants, and also the influence of both forms of algae ...