I-P2 - Intelligent Process Panels to Support Coalition Operations

The University of Edinburgh and research sponsors are authorised to reproduce and distribute reprints and on-line copies for their purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation hereon. The views and conclusions contained herein are the author’s and shouldn’t be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of other parties.I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification of some product or products such as documents, plans or designs. I-X may also be used to support more general collaborative activity.The I-X research draws on earlier work on O-Plan (Tate et.al., 1998; Tate et.al., 2000; Tate et.al., 2002), (Tate, 1996), the Enterprise Project (Fraser and Tate, 1995; Stader, 1996); Uschold, et.al., 1998) and the TBPM project (Stader, 2000) but seeks to make the framework generic and to clarify terminology, simplify the approach taken, and increase re-usability and applicability of the core ideas.I-X Applications are being studied in a variety of areas. These currently include:· Coalition Operations (CoAX: I-LEED, I-DEEL)· Emergency and Unusual Procedure Assistance (I-Rescue)· Help Desk Support (I-Help)· Multi-Perspective Knowledge Modelling and Management (I-AKT)· Contextualised Presentations of Procedures and Plans (I-Tell)· Collaborative Meeting and Task Support (I-Room, I-Space)An application of I-X Process Panels within a military Coalition context - part of the Coalition Agents eXperiment - CoAX (Allsopp et.al., 2001; Allsopp et.al., 2002) will be described in this paper

Knowledge-based process management – an approach to handling adaptive workflow

In recent years, many organisations have found enterprise modelling, especially business process modelling, to be an effective tool for managing organisational change. The application of business processing modelling has brought benefits to many organisations, but the models developed tend to be used for reference during business operations and re-engineering activities; they rarely play an active role in supporting the day-to-day execution of the processes. While workflow management systems are widely used for the streamlined management of "administrative" business processes, current systems are unable to cope with the more dynamic situations encountered in ad-hoc and collaborative processes [1]. A system that supports complex and dynamically changing processes is required. There is increasing interest in making workflow systems more adaptive [8][20] and using knowledge-based techniques to provide more flexible process management support than is possible Published in Knowledge-based Systems, Vol 16, 2003, pp149-160 Page 2 using current workflow systems [4][21]. This paper describes the results of a collaborative project between Loughborough University and the University of Edinburgh. ICI and Unilever were industrial partners on the project, providing real business requirements in the application domain. The project investigated the use of ontologies, agents and knowledge based planning techniques to provide support for adaptive workflow or flexible workflow management, especially in the area of new product development within the chemical industries

Queer Youth and the Culture Wars: From Classroom to Courtroom in Australia, Canada and the United States

This article builds on Lugg\u27s (2006) discussion of surveillance in public schools and how queer youth are resisting schools\u27 current efforts to regulate sexual orientation and gender expression in the U.S. and internationally. Legal complaints initiated by queer youth against their schools for harassment and access to extra-curricular activities are discussed. The number of cases in the past five years has increased significantly and the courts are siding with the youth and their allies, demonstrating that queer youth are significantly impacting the dismantling of heteronormative regulatory regimes and improving the school experiences for themselves and queer adults

Exile Vol. XXXVII No. 1

And It Was Sunday by Julie Gruen 1-6 Like a Lady by Grace Mulvihill 7 The Final You by Eric Franzon 8 Joseph\u27s Children by Seneca Murley 9 Ain\u27t the 1950s Anymore by Ellen Stader 10-12 Bonding Women by Shannon salser 13 Ice Man (for mami 1905-1975) by Anne Mulligan 14 The Car Salesman by Tom Ream 15 Cancelling the Bunny by Stewart Engesser 16-17 Richard Brautigan\u27s Body by Michael Payne 18-19 Dinner in Barcelona by Holly Kurtz 20 Untitled by Margaret Strachen 21 Candles by Eric Franzon 22 Summer Rules by Jim Cox 23-31 My Boat by Holly Kurtz 32 Untitled by Michael Payne 33 Half the Birds in the City by Tiffany Richardson 34-35 Down Queen Anne Hill by Julie Gruen 36-37 Your Music by Tim Emrick 38 Zephyrs by Steve Corinth 39-41 Mother by Anne Mulligan 42 As I Look to the Sky, Maize by Shannon Salser 43-45 Close Book before Striking by Sarah Verdon 46-47 Smoked by Tom Ream 48 Driving through Rain by Stewart Engesser 49-50 Contributors 51 Editorial decision is shared equally among the Editorial Board. -i 35th Yea

Negotiating Value: Comparing Human and Animal Fracture Care in Industrial Societies

At the beginning of the twentieth-century, human and veterinary surgeons faced the challenge of a medical marketplace transformed by technology. The socio-economic value ascribed to their patients – people and domestic animals – was changing, reflecting the increasing mechanisation of industry and the decreasing dependence of society upon non-human animals for labour. In human medicine, concern for the economic consequences of fractures “pathologised” any significant level of post-therapeutic disability, a productivist perspective contrary to the traditional corpus of medical values. In contrast, veterinarians adapted to the mechanisation of horse-power by shifting their primary professional interest to companion animals; a type of veterinary patient generally valued for the unique emotional attachment of the owner, and not the productive capacity of the animal. The economic rationalisation of human fracture care and the “sentimental” transformation of veterinary orthopaedic expertise indicates how these specialists utilised increasingly convergent rhetorical arguments to justify the application of innovative fracture care technologies to their humans and animal patients. Keywords: Fracture care, Industrialisation, Veterinary History, Human/animal relation

A progenitor of the outer membrane LamB trimer.

During its localization to the outer membrane, LamB possesses distinctive biochemical properties as it passes through the cytoplasmic membrane. Because LamB entered this dynamic state with an attached signal sequence and leaves after cleavage, we call this export-related form of LamB the early-translocation form (et-LamB)

A new suppressor of a lamB signal sequence mutation, prlZ1, maps to 69 minutes on the Escherichia coli chromosome.

Reversion analysis has been employed to isolate suppressors that restore export of a unique LamB signal sequence mutant. The mutation results in a substitution of Arg for Met at position 19, which prevents LamB export to the outer membrane and leads to a Dex- phenotype. Unlike other LamB signal sequence mutants utilized for reversion analysis, LamB19R becomes stably associated with the inner membrane in an export-specific manner. In this study, Dex+ revertants were selected and various suppressors were isolated. One of the extragenic suppressors, designated prlZ1, was chosen for further study. prlZ1 maps to 69 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome. The suppressor is dominant and SecB dependent. In addition to its effect on lamB19R, prlZ1 suppresses the export defect of signal sequence point mutations at positions 12, 15, and 16, as well as several point mutations in the maltose-binding protein signal sequence. prlZ1 does not suppress deletion mutations in either signal sequence. This pattern of suppression can be explained by interaction of a helical LamB signal sequence with the suppressor