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The Task Force on Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes without persistent ST-segment elevation was created by the Committee for Scientific and Clinical Initiatives on 18 October 1998 after formal approval by the Board of the European Society of Cardiology. The composition of the Task Force was proposed by Dr Michel E. Bertrand and was approved by the Board of the European Society of Cardiolog...

A JOINT sesion of the Central Branch of the American Society of Zoologists with Section F, Zoology, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held at the University of Chicago, December 30, 1907, to January 4, 1908. This was the sixth meeting of the Central Branch of the American Society of Zoologists, and the largest in its history. President S. A. Forbes, of the Central B...

One of the characteristics of business history in Japan, as well as in other countries, is its interdisciplinary nature both in studies and scholars. In fact, when the Business History Society of Japan was organized in 1964, main sources of recruitment of members were the four existing academic disciplines dealing with the subject -socioeconomic history, general history, business administration...

E-fraud is an e-crime that affects society, as a whole, impacting upon individuals, businesses and governments. Recent studies suggest that e-fraud is on the increase and that a lack of awareness, and inappropriate, limited or absent countermeasures have only exacerbated the negative impact of E-fraud to society. The response to e-fraud has concentrated on context specific technical solutions b...

This paper reports the results of a study to investigate the digital divide in Lebanon based on data collected in August 2008 from 330 potential users of Lebanese public e-services. The study investigated factors that make a difference for e-access and e-skills and how socio-economic, demographic, and cultural factors explain the digital divide. Overall, results show that gender, age, religion,...

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Thomas A. Nakagawa, MD, FAAP, FCCM; Stephen Ashwal, MD, FAAP; Mudit Mathur, MD, FAAP; Mohan R. Mysore, MD, FAAP, FCCM; Derek Bruce, MD; Edward E. Conway, Jr, MD, FCCM; Susan E. Duthie, MD; Shannon Hamrick, MD; Rick Harrison, MD; Andrea M. Kline, RN, MS, FCCM; Daniel J. Lebovitz, MD; Maureen A. Madden, MSN, FCCM; Vicki L. Montgomery, MD, FCCM; Jeffrey M. Perlman, MBChB, FAAP; Nancy Rollins, MD, ...

This paper analyzes the evolution of conventions in a society with local interaction and mobile players. Three innovative aspects are introduced: Imperfect observability of play outside a player's home location, friction in the strategy adjustment process, and restricted mobility. It is shown that, if mobility is unrestricted, only e cient conventions are stochastichally stable. If there are ba...

Society today has great expectations on small firms’ contribution to society as a whole. To be able to contribute small firms have to be competitive. Competitive advantage based on competence is not as easily copied by competitors, and, hence, more sustainable. Even though competence can be complicated to imitate, continual environmental changes mean that competence is not static and will not p...