oday almost all organizations use the Internet extensively for both intraand inter-organizational communications. The Internet is also the exclusive vehicle for E-commerce transactions involving customers and other business partners. This eliminates the significant infrastructure costs of private data communications networks and enables even small companies to participate in E-commerce. However...

a r t h t H C g r g hen CEO Laurie Eberst, RN, was charged with opening the new Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in Arizona in 2006, he decided it was important to build an rganization—before the doors opened— hat would support the philosophy of proiding “radical, loving care” that focuses n caring for the caregivers, who in turn rovide high-quality, compassionate care o their patients. To create t...

T oday, human-computer interfaces (HCIs) are rather physical in nature. The communication of information from and to computers is limited to the capabilities of individual input and output devices. With a typing speed of less than 50 words per minute and a reading rate of less than 300 words per minute, my transmission rate to and from my laptop is far lower than the communication bandwidth of ...

we were children, we would draw wrist wat ches, colorful rings, or our friends' t elephone numbers on t he backs of our hands and crib sheet s wit h not es of mat hemat ical formulae or endless list s of kings and queens on our palms. Having a bat h or sweat ing would erase t hose works of art or mini-encyclopedias. During t hose early years, our skin was t he canvas on which our rudiment ary a...

T oday, we are unable to select an indisputable winner as the single best post-remission therapy for an individual patient with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who achieves first remission (CR1) after induction chemotherapy. Choices for subsequent treatment are made based on the probability of future relapse: low risk patients traditionally receive only cyto-toxic chemotherapy; conversely, high ri...

Electroencephalography (EEG) is at the same time the oldest rain imaging technique and one of the methodologically most apidly expanding tools in cognitive neurosciences. Its exquisite emporal resolution, its ever-growing spatial precision, its ease of se, and its relatively modest price make it a method of choice for ognitive neuroscience labs. In recent years, the explosion of comuting power ...

oday, more than ever, science education is essential for increasing our science literacy and cultivating the next generation of scientists. Science literacy is key to helping us make sense of the information we receive in this fast-paced world where technologic and scientific advances are made at an ever increasing rate. At a time when fewer U.S. students are pursuing careers in science and U.S...

Customization involves fit and alterability and is based on understanding the commonality and variability (clv) across industries, geographies, customers, and systems. This paper argues for an emphasis on clv through a customization life cycle, from engineering customizable assets, components, and solutions to supporting their effective deployment. Examples of systems that focus on customizatio...

LESK (Language f o r E x a c t l y 3 t a t l ~ Knowledge) i s i n t e n d ed t o b r i d g e t h e c o n s i d e r a b l e gap be tween n a t u r a l l anguage (I~L), computer l an6uage (CL) and log~tc. I t i s d e s i r a b l e t o d o so f o r t he f o l l o w i n g r e a s o n . To implement any n o n t r i v i a l computer sys tem f o r some problem domain, one must f i r s t have a v e r y...