By incorporating aspects of coordination and collaboration, workkow implementations of information systems require a sound conceptualisation of business processing semantics. Traditionally, the success of conceptual modelling techniques has depended largely on the adequacy of conceptualisation, expressive power, comprehensibility and formal foundation. An equally important requirement, particul...

Conceptual data modelling techniques aim at the representation of data at a high level of abstraction. The Conceptualisation Principle states that only those aspects are to be represented that deal with the meaning of the Universe of Discourse. Conventional conceptual data modelling techniques, as e.g. ER or NIAM, have to violate the Conceptualisation Principle when dealing with objects with a ...

Previous literature suggests that posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD) is associated with poor physical health. To date a number of existing hypotheses have been developed to explain this association focusing predominantly on the interplay between cognitive and emotional appraisals. We have attempted to synthesise existing literature on the role of cognitive and emotional appraisals in explaini...