Historical, social and cultural understanding of public relations in Australia is limited because most histories of PR examine practices specifically labelled `public relations¿ and almost all study PR from `inside out¿ ¿ ...

This paper has been reconstructed from the field notes of the principal author on this paper. Selected sections may enable those for whom intensive care encompasses a taken-as-given world, to share with an outsider some ...

This paper addresses the issue of services outsourcing by looking at both theoretical and empirical arguments. Previous debates have often concentrated on the motives for adopting the practice rather than the outcomes. ...

This paper reveals the lack of discovery of the interrelationships between the various factors identified as key factors in building successful in situations where organisations outsource knowledge work to self employed ...

Like many organisational endeavours, the success of knowledge management praxis is subject to the vagaries of human nature. There are many reasons, most of which are underpinned by the need for power, why people might ...

Malaria aminopeptidases are important in the generation and regulation of free amino acids that are used in protein anabolism and for maintaining osmotic stability within the infected erythrocyte. The intraerythrocytic ...

This paper presents a new method of stabilizing closed-loop systems, whereby instability warnings and overriding controls are performed. The system stability is maintained by having a separated agent, here called stabilizing ...