Abstract: A Method for self controlled early detection and prediction of a performance shortage of an application is described comprises the steps of monitoring at least one performance parameter of the application, storing performance data including a time dependency of said performance parameter, using said performance data to compute a mathematic function describing a time dependent development of said performance parameter, using said mathematical function to compute a point in time when the performance parameter exceeds a certain threshold, and generating and outputting a prediction comprising information that a performance shortage of the application is expected at said computed point in time, if said point in time lies within a settable timeframe.

Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for improving intra- and inter-cultural communications by having people of one or more cultures develop and build a symbolic vocabulary of what is salient in their work and their lives. Through successive stages of formations that select and arrange building elements into models having one or more symbols of the visual vocabulary. The symbolic vocabulary is developed by a method that includes the step of creating a collective model by a plurality of participants, the collective model having a collective symbol responsive to an assignment. The model creating step further includes, in the preferred embodiment, the steps of: (a) selecting and arranging a plurality of building elements into a model having a symbol responsive to the assignment; and (b) describing the symbol, discussing symbols and developing a vocabulary. Wherein the steps are performed successively by one or more formations of units of the plurality of participants.

Abstract: Water-soluble fiber-reactive dyes which contain one or more groups of the general formula (1) ##STR1## where R.sup..alpha. and R.sup..beta. are each hydrogen or lower alkyl,R is hydrogen or sulfoY is vinyl or ethyl which is substituted in the .beta.-position by a substituent which is eliminatable under alkaline conditions,W is hydroxy, N-morpholino, N-piperidinyl, N-pyrrolidinyl or a group of the general formula (2) ##STR2## where G is hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms andQ is a group of the general formula (2a), (2b), (2c) or (2d) ##STR3##--(CH.sub.2).sub.t --R.sup.a (2b)--(CH.sub.2).sub.t --O--(CH.sub.2).sub.w --R.sup.a (2c)--(CH.sub.2).sub.t --R.sup.2 (2d)whereR.sup.a is a group of the general formula --SO.sub.2 --Y, where Y is as defined above, or sulfo,R.sup.b is hydrogen, alkoxy of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, sulfo, hydroxy, carboxy or chlorine,R.sup.