This thesis explores how doctors and nurses use documents to share their knowledge within and across healthcare settings. In addressing this question I draw on a 15-month, multi-sited ethnographic study in several pediatric health care settings, following patients from primary…

A real-time motion engine for interactive synthetic characters, either virtual or physical, needs to allow expressivity and interactivity of motion in order to maintain the illusion of life. Canned animation examples from an animator or motion capture device are expressive,…

This dissertation investigates how rapid learning occurs in high technology industries, many of which operate in what Bourgeois and Eisenhardt (1988) term "high velocity environments." The dissertation consists of three empirical studies, which follow the method of extended case study…

The climate of the reception of immigrants to the United States has soured, and circumstances are becoming increasingly difficult for persons seeking to gain residency. Reasons often given for the reversal in this practice are that immigrants are poor, uneducated,…

Understanding the biological signals encoded in a genome is a key challenge of computational biology. These signals are encoded in the four-nucleotide alphabet of DNA and are responsible for all molecular processes in the cell. In particular, the genome contains…

This dissertation analyzes the strategic implications of customization policies available to companies that must simultaneously provide service and learn about their customers through automated interfaces. The first part of the dissertation lays out the theoretical framework within which the analysis…

This paper proposes three tests to determine whether a given nonlinear device noise model
is in agreement with accepted thermodynamic principles. These tests are applied to several
models. One conclusion is that every Gaussian noise model for any nonlinear device…

, Editorial. El problema nutricional y su relación con la ciencia y la tecnología en Venezuela, Salinas, Pedro José, Control fisiológico en una fusión moa::lac de Escherichia coli K12:Cinéticas de expresión bajo diferentes condiciones de cultivo, Physiological control in a…

, Editorial. El problema nutricional y su relación con la ciencia y la tecnología en Venezuela, Salinas, Pedro José, Control fisiológico en una fusión moa::lac de Escherichia coli K12:Cinéticas de expresión bajo diferentes condiciones de cultivo, Physiological control in a…

, Editorial. El problema nutricional y su relación con la ciencia y la tecnología en Venezuela, Salinas, Pedro José, Control fisiológico en una fusión moa::lac de Escherichia coli K12:Cinéticas de expresión bajo diferentes condiciones de cultivo, Physiological control in a…