This paper presents an insight into the emerging concept of Master Data Management (MDM) and highlights issues that both academics and business managers should consider to better understand the meaning of this ‘hot topic’. This critical reflection paper is forward looking and attempts to make sense of the MDM concept and highlight the issues associated with implementation. We argue that both th...

Beyond acute infections, group B coxsackieviruses (CVB) are also reported to play a role in the development of chronic diseases, like type 1 diabetes. The viral pathogenesis mainly relies on the interplay between the viruses and innate immune response in genetically-susceptible individuals. We investigated the interaction between CVB4 and macrophages considered as major players in immune respon...

We review some of the recent research activities on plasmonic devices based on metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) stub resonators for manipulating light at the nanoscale. We first introduce slow-light subwavelength plasmonic waveguides based on plasmonic analogues of periodically loaded transmission lines and electromagnetically induced transparency. In both cases, the structures consist of a MDM wav...

Aims-To investigate the immunohistochemical expression of MDM-2 protein in comparison with that of p53 protein in nasopharyngeal carcinomas.Methods-Formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded tissue from 59 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma was stained by immunohistochemistry for MDM-2 and p53 proteins.Results-The tumours were divided histologically into seven cases of keratinising nasopharyngeal car...

WINNING ABSTRACT: The epithelium of the human airway wall serves as structural and functional barrier against inhaled and deposited particulate antigen. Recently we have shown that human blood monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDC) and human blood monocytes derived macrophages (MDM) collaborate as sentinels against foreign particulate antigen by building a transepithelial interacting cellular ...

Adoption of master data management (MDM) tools and techniques continues to grow exponentially. According to Gartner, total software revenue for packaged MDM solutions was $1.6 billion in 2012, an increase of 7.8% from 2011, as compared with a 4.7% rise for the overall enterprise software market. Further, in a 2011 report, Gartner projected a five-year compound annual growth rate of nearly 20% f...

Master data management (MDM) provides an access to the consistent views of the organization ́s most important data, also referred to as master data. In addition to technical issues, there are many organizational items related to MDM and its organizational implementation. However, current academic literature lacks empirical studies on organizational challenges influencing the MDM initiatives. Con...

CONTEXT The setting of multidisciplinary meeting (MDM) by the French Cancer Plan has introduced new decisional elements in the patient-physician relationship in oncology. METHODS To assess the potential impact of MDM on this relationship, a study was conducted at the Tours Hospital: 145 questionnaires were collected from patients whose files have been discussed in MDM, 40 questionnaires were ...

Mal de Meleda (MDM) is a rare, autosomal recessive form of palmoplantar keratoderma. It is characterized by erythema and hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles that progressively extend to the dorsal surface of the hands and feet. It is caused by mutations in SLURP-1 gene encoding for secreted mammalian Ly-6/uPAR-related protein 1 (SLURP-1). We performed mutational analysis by direct sequencing ...

A coupled state of an electromagnetic field with an electric or magnetic dipole-carrying excitation is well known as a polariton. Such a state is the result of the mixing of a photon with the excitation of a material. The most discussed types of polaritons are phonon polaritons, exciton polaritons, and surface-plasmon polaritons. Recently, it was shown that, in microwaves, strong magnon-photon ...