Uncharted Paths

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The setting could have come from a Hollywood science fiction movie. A dozen figures, a handful in uniforms of the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) and a slightly larger contingent variously in business suits and in shirtsleeves, were gathered around a large mainframe computer whose blinking lights signaled a run in progress. The computer run — on an early70s behemoth that represented the state-...

Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead

Sweat, Skepticism, and Uncharted Territory

Efforts to internalize data sharing in research practice have been driven largely by developing international norms that have not incorporated opinions from researchers in lowand middle-income countries. We sought to identify the issues around ethical data sharing in the context of research involving women and children in urban India. We interviewed researchers, managers, and research participa...

Knowledge Needs: Uncharted Area in Knowledge Management

In the knowledge management domain, few researchers have studied knowledge maps in depth. Most discussions on using knowledge maps as a transfer mechanism focus on the benefits they can bring to organisations and the different mapping schemes that can be used to develop maps serving different business requirements. No literature has explored the role of knowledge maps in the context of knowledg...

Guidance in sepsis management: navigating uncharted waters?

Guidelines can influence physicians to act against their better judgement. For example, while only 47% of surveyed intensivists believed that central venous pressure should guide resuscitation, 86% used it because of the SSC recommendation [2]. Protocols may improve care, but what should one do when audited patient outcomes are already better than those achieved by guideline interventions – suc...