The Information Systems (IS) discipline traces its origins to issues that were of interest practitioners, but in recent years the practitioner perspective has often been neglected. Nevertheless, there is increasing recognition practitioner's still important and research we undertake can (or should) have implications for practitioners. Journals like MIS Quarterly Executive target this segment ex...

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Transitions to democracy are most often considered the outcome of historical modernization processes. Socio-economic changes, such as increases in per capita GNP, education levels, urbanization and communication, have traditionally been found to be correlates or 'requisites' of democratic reform. However, transition times and the number of reform steps have not been studied comprehensively. Her...

In summary, the alternative methodology for measuring health spending trends compares the increment in health spending with the increment in the GNP as a measure of ability to pay. This method of analysis cannot solve the myriad of health cost problems, but it can help clarify the choices and judgments that society is implicitly making at the margin. By making these marginal allocation decision...

This paper analyzes the output]energy relationship with alternative measures of output and energy. Our analysis rejects the hypothesis of non-diminishing returns to energy consumption when GDP at purchasing power parities is used as the output measure unlike the case with GNP at market exchange rates. This finding also holds when energy input includes the usage of both commercial and traditiona...

Sr. Editor. El desarrollo de una tesis es una modalidad para obtener el grado académico de bachiller o el título profesional de médico cirujano en las universidades peruanas. En su desarrollo, los estudiantes suelen presentar dificultades originadas por deficiencias en sus conocimientos acerca de metodología de la investigación, lectura crítica y redacción científica (1). Por este motivo, se ha...