The Greek notion of archetype was adopted and popularized in the context of the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. Marshall McLuhan used the concept archetype as a formal perspective rather than the content of an alleged “collective unconscious”. In his book From Cliché to Archetype, the idea of archetype is presented as the ground where individual action is the figure. This article, de...

Health Information Managers (HIMs) are responsible for overseeing health information. The change management necessary during the transition to electronic health records (EHR) is substantial, and ongoing. Archetype-based EHRs are a core health information system component which solve many of the problems that arise during this period of change. Archetypes are models of clinical content, and they...

JC polyomavirus (JCV), the causative agent of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), is ubiquitous in humans, infecting children asymptomatically and then persisting in the kidney. Renal JCV is not latent but replicates to excrete progeny in the urine. The renal-urinary JCV DNAs carry the archetype regulatory region that generates various rearranged regulatory regions occurring in JC...

A parallel program archetype 2] aids in the development of reliable, eecient parallel applications with common computation/communication structures by providing development methods and code libraries spe-ciic to the structure. This document presents an archetype for mesh-spectral computations. It describes the common structure captured by the archetype abstraction, discusses a parallelization s...

This paper examines the long-standing operational issue of patients boarding in the emergency department (ED), who have been admitted to hospital (inpatient ‘boarders’). From this analysis we design a conceptual model that provides a roadmap to create sustainable improvements in ED waiting times. The conceptual model is built using system dynamics methodology, and illustrates the use of system ...

China’s entrance into WTO is a new departure in China’s opening to the outside world. With the implementing of “Going-global” strategy, cross-border M&A of Chinese enterprises has become an inevitable trend. This paper uses systems thinking and system archetype theory to identify some typical problems in the process of Chinese enterprises’ cross-border M&A. By analysing the merger between Chine...