Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been among the highest ranked issues on management agendas for many years. As such, SISP should be a major concern for researchers as well. However, SISP does not play that important of a role in the academic discussion, at least in Germany. Leading German textbooks on Information Management devote only small sections to strategy themes. Moreove...

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been among the highest ranked issues on management agendas for many years. As such, SISP should be a major concern for researchers as well. However, SISP does not play that important of a role in the academic discussion, at least in Germany. Leading German textbooks on Information Management devote only small sections to strategy themes. Moreove...

Today’s students are accustomed to a world where information is available on-demand, anywhere and anytime. They bring this expectation to their academic world where they want to work cooperatively and flexibly, using the modern information processing tools and access with which they are familiar. New hardware platforms such as e-Readers and tablet computers have made substantial inroads in the ...

Intersexual infants and infants with other genital abnormalities often receive genital surgery for sex assignment or for normalizing purposes.1 The wisdom and beneficence of these practices have been questioned by intersexual individuals, support groups, some doctors, and the media.2 Because the practices have been developed without long-term studies to evaluate them, pediatric urologists and p...

Since its inception Language Action Perspective (LAP) has made significant progress in developing ontological and epistemological theories of information systems, new modeling approaches and tools, or new computer based coordination tools. In some sense LAP has come of age and can be regarded a specific computing movement, or a unique discourse and voice in the information technology revolution...

The Method of Standard Additions or The Standard Addition Method, often referred to by its acronym as just SAM, is a proverbial workhorse in both inorganic and organic quantitative analytical chemistry and in related disciplines such as geochemistry. Its advantage in mitigating the effects of matrix interferences compared with the calibration curve approach is well known and is one of its major...

EDITOR Dr. Rosen graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, then trained in internal medicine at the University of Alabama, and in dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine. He currently serves as Professor of Dermatology at Baylor and Chief of Dermatology at the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is active in the American Academy of Dermatology, having served on the Boa...

François Pierre Emmanuel Grémy, honorary professor at the Montpellier-Nîmes Faculty of Medicine, Officer of the Légion d’Honneur, died on July 22, 2014 at the age of 85 after a rich professional and socially engaged life. François Grémy was born on March 3, 1929 in Neuilly sur Seine, west of Paris. Having completed his college degree at the age of 16, he vacillated between a purely scientific c...