Zum 24. Mai 1899

John F. Fulton (1899-1960)

A Midsummer Reminiscence In June of 1957 word came to me in Zurich that Dr. Fulton was gravely ill. He had recently arrived in London to celebrate the Harvey Tercen-tenary and was to go on from there to Oxford to receive an honorary degree. He had rallied from critical illnesses before, but this time it seemed that the end had come. I boarded a plane for London. The muffled roar of the all-but-...

The Inebriates' Acts, 1879—1899

Edward Charles Dodds (1899-1973)

Edward Charles Dodds [3] researched the function and effects of natural and artificial hormones [4] on the endocrine system in England during the twentieth century. Though he first worked with hormones [4] such as insulin, Dodds focused on the effects of estrogen [5] in the body and how to replicate those effects with artificial substances. In 1938, along with chemist Robert Robinson, Dodds syn...

MAI: MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano

MAI (MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano) is a virtual union catalogue of Italian libraries developed through co-operation between the Italian Library Association (Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, AIB) and the Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l’Elaborazione Automatica (CILEA). This paper presents the components of the MAI and the organisational, management, planning and implementation tools dev...

. - 5 . Mai 2010

Although the rate of significant quality issues in enduser programs is alarming, high-stake business decisions are often influenced by them. But due to a lack of awareness the end-user programs manage to stay below the radar of today’s managers and vital reengineering actions never get projected. This case study describes a project in which preceding business process reengineering triggered sof...