of the relationship proposition in the consumer-brand context, including a debate as to the legiti-macy of the brand as an active relationship partner and empirical support for the phenomenological significance of consumer-brand bonds; (2) provides a framework for characterizing and better understanding the types

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such as food and mating partners were the objects of active foraging, whereas dangers had to be reflexively

/ENRICH, START, ACMAD, OSS. Developing the MEDIAS network activities in Africa is a high priority. Several major issues are addressed through international projects. The most important areas of concern are: palaeoclimatology; seasonal climate forecasting, including water resources availability; dynamics

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designed to support business transactions over Web services. These specifications, BPEL4WS, WS-Transaction, and WS-Coordination, together form the bedrock for reliably choreographing Web servicesbased applications, providing business process management, transactional integrity, and generic coordination facilities respectively. The value of BPEL4WS is that if a business is the sum of its processes, the orchestration and refinement of those processes is critical to an enterprise’s continued viability in the marketplace. Those businesses whose processes are agile and flexible will be able to adapt rapidly to and exploit new market conditions. This report introduces the key features Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, and shows how it builds on the features offered by WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction to support the reliable orchestration of business processes. 1 This article was first published in the August 2003 issue of the Web Services Journal. Reprinted here with permission. 2 This report based on an abridged excerpt from “Developing Enterprise Web Services and

be satisfied as technology users [17]. In recent years, numerous methodologies have been developed that bring technology users into the development process. Users have been described as active partners [6, 16, 29], inspectors or testers [24, 25], or research participants to be observed and/or interviewed [5

features of relationship representations and that mere activation of those representations, even in the partner’s physical absence, causes the goals to become active and to guide behavior nonconsciously within the current situation. Many of people’s most strongly held goals, fears, and desires spring from