This paper addresses the question of the organization of memory processes within the medial temporal lobe. Evidence obtained in patients with late-onset amnesia resulting from medial temporal pathology has given rise to two opposing interpretations of the effects of such damage on long-term cognitive memory. One view is that cognitive memory, including memory for both facts and events, is serve...

BACKGROUND Health care networks are widely used and accepted as an organizational form that enables integrated care as well as dealing with complex matters in health care. However, research on the governance of health care networks lags behind. The research aim of our study is to explore the type and importance of governance structure and governance mechanisms for network effectiveness. METHO...

Innovations in information technologies have facilitated the development of new styles of research networks and forms of governance. This is evident in genomics where increasingly, research is carried out by large, interdisciplinary consortia focussing on a specific research endeavour. The UK10K project is an example of a human genomics consortium funded to provide insights into the genomics of...

Existing research has shown that both IT and data within an organization need to be governed appropriately in order to achieve business value from IT and to ensure data quality, compliance, and privacy. For achieving a high level of maturity in IT and Data Governance functions, a combination of governance structures, processes, and mechanisms as well as their establishment within the organizati...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a paradigm used by organizations to reduce costs and foster agility through reuse of assets and an increase of alignment between business and IT. To achieve these benefits, a governance model is vital to ensure that technical actions and decisions of IT departments are aligned to organizations’ business goals and requirements. There are several proposals o...

In the brain, external objects are categorized in a hierarchical way. Although it is widely accepted that objects are represented as static attractors in neural state space, this view does not take account interaction between intrinsic neural dynamics and external input, which is essential to understand how neural system responds to inputs. Indeed, structured spontaneous neural activity without...

Information security governance includes the governance aspect, which sets the information security direction and strategy of an organization, and, the management aspect, which addresses how the strategy is implemented and managed. In this article, we focus on the management aspect of information security governance. Different organizational arrangements (i.e., governance arrangements) are poss...