The successful implementation of new technologies is dependent on many factors including the efficient management of human resources. Furthermore, recent research indicates that intellectual assets and resources can be utilised much more efficiently and effectively if organisations apply knowledge management techniques for leveraging their human resources and enhancing their personnel managemen...

AI planning systems have traditionally operated as stand-alone blackboxes, taking a description of a domain and a set of goals, and automatically synthesizing a plan for achieving those goals. Such designs severely restrict the in uence that users can have on the resultant plans. This paper describes an Advisable Planner framework that marries an advice-taking interface to AI planning technolog...

The increasingly competitive markets of the 1990s are generally perceived to be demanding higher-quality and higher-performing products, in shorter and more predictable development cycle-times, and at lower cost. Product development must therefore increasingly be managed as a concurrent, multi-disciplinary process. In terms of the manufacturing function and suppliers this is re#ected in recomme...

The border separating/unifying Gibraltar with Spain is reproduced in public discourse as a threat and an obstacle to the normalisation of political life small enclave. Yet, in-depth socio-historical analysis local cross-border relations over 20th century, shows how Gibraltarian national identity government originate from rather than opposition it. fencing frontier imposed by Franco’s regime bet...

this article aims at strategic vision to technology and suggests a strategic planning for this purpose. the main emphasis in this article is on strategic report compilation in the framework of strategic vision and covers issues such as identification of strategic planning dimensions and strategic vision levels, technology priority setting, environment monitoring, focus on costumer needs, method...

wound healing in the skin depends upon the availability of appropriate trace metals as enzyme cofactors and structural components in tissue repair. the present study is a part of a series of experimental investigations to examine the influence of bentonite on skin wound healing. surgically induced skin wounds in 48 young adult male rats were exposed topically to bentonite (12 round wound and 12...

This paper reports on the managerial experience, technical approach, and lessons learned from reengineering eight departmental large-scale information systems. The driving strategic objective of each project was to migrate these systems into a set of enterprise-wide systems, which incorporate current and future requirements, drastically reduce operational and maintenance cost, and facilitate co...

How should movements for environmental justice orient themselves towards the state? Recent work in field critiques legalistic basis of both research and movement strategy based juridical action, regulation, advocacy within state institutions. Meanwhile, rightward-moving politics United States threatens to choke off even this limited strategy. Scholars have responded by urging adopt a more skept...