John Yovich to lead Murdoch University

An Evening with Iris Murdoch

ence Steen. Professor Davies began by quoting from something Miss Murdoch had written years ago linking the novelists function with therapy. While perhaps art might at times have a therapeutic effect, she did not think that should be the aim of the artist. Art should seek something fundamental whatever the artist chooses. Here your correspondent feels that his notes and his memory are not adequ...

Nominal Rewriting ? Maribel Fernández and Murdoch

Nominal rewriting is based on the observation that if we add support for alphaequivalence to first-order syntax using the nominal-set approach, then systems with binding, including higher-order reduction schemes such as lambda-calculus betareduction, can be smoothly represented. Nominal rewriting maintains a strict distinction between variables of the objectlanguage (atoms) and of the meta-lang...

University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Joerg Evermann Memorial University of Newfoundland St . John ' s , Canada

Partial Least Squares (PLS) is a statistical technique that is widely used in the Partial Least Squares (PLS) is a popular technique for estimating structural equation models with latent variables. It is frequently perceived as an alternative to covariance analysis of such models. While its proponents recognize the shortcomings of PLS for testing explanatory models in comparison to covariance m...

John Leslie King Kalle Lyytinen University of Michigan Case Western Reserve University Editorial Board

This paper addresses the formation of standards in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. The contrast between the developing of generic standards and sector specific standards is considered and the argument that users will commit to developing sectoral standards while IT vendors will direct their resources to generic standards is restated. Specifically, the emergence of the OASIS committee dev...