Organizations increasingly rely on teams to formulate plans and respond in critical situations. However, current models of team process are insensitive to the effects of team strategic orientation. This paper expands existing work on team process and strategic orientation to introduce and explicate the constructs of offensive and defensive strategic orientations in teams. It takes advantage of ...

An accountable fistula management treatment plan focuses on combining effective medical and nursing treatment with effective and efficient pouching technique and equipment to ensure patient comfort. Small bowel fistula following abdominal surgery can provide challenges in patients' medical and nursing management. This article describes a case study of the successful medical and nursing manageme...

A L B A N Y — T h e S t a t e L e g i s l a t u r e h a s g i v e n i t s a p p r o v a l t o t h e n e w p e n s i o n p l a n f o r ta te e m p l o y e e s w o n l a s t M a r c h b y t h e C i v i l S e r v i c e E m p l o y e e s A s s n . i n n e g o t i a t i o n s w i t h the S t a t e A d m i i n s t r a t i o n . T h e S t a t e S e n a t e g a v e i t s s t a m p o f a p p r o v a l t...

This discussion is focused primarily on developing PMPs at the program level. The program level is represented by the Assistance Objective and Intermediate Results contained in the Results Framework. These form the key objectives that USAID will achieve in a particular country or program over a specific period of time. Projects also require their own Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plans. Many ...

A city with a population of approximately 12,500 operates two advanced wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF) with a combined treatment capacity permitted at 2.75 million gallons per day (mgd). Each facility discharges 100% of the effluent generated onsite to the reuse system for use throughout the city. Biosolids at each facility are aerobically digested and the city uses an independent contra...

Recognizing that all management decisions have impacts on the ecosystem being exploited, an ecosystem-based approach to management seeks to better inform these decisions with knowledge of ecosystem structure, processes and functions. For marine fisheries in the California Current, along the West Coast of North America, such an approach must take into greater consideration the constantly changin...

For the past several years, we have been developing multiagent technology to help humans coordinate their activities in complex, dynamic environments. In recent work on the DARPA COORDINATORs program, we have developed multi-agent Markov-decision process (MDP) techniques for distributed plan management. The COORDINATORs problems arrive in distributed form, with different agents getting local vi...

In this paper we present a semi-formal tool using the concept of process modelling for emergency management developed within our project InfoStrom. This is meant to be an aid for rescue forces, energy providers and public authorities, whose measures and terminologies generally differentiate. Also, they do not have up-to-date documents and manuals available that could be adapted to new types of ...

 Global Approach: It considers the preservation process as a whole, including all its aspects.  Efficient and flexible: Driven by the most worldwide accepted preservation standard (ISO 14.721-OAIS), while at the same time keeping a practical and efficient approach derived from practical experience in real projects.  Look-through model: The user has a total control over the status and locatio...