2017 Developments in Indiana Evidentiary Practice

Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017

The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and state aids. This year's article provides first a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist's team and surveys the main achievements of the Directorate General for Competition over 2016/2017. The article then reviews the economic wor...

Mitigating Evidentiary Bias in Planning and Policy-Making; Comment on “Reflective Practice: How the World Bank Explored Its Own Biases?”

The field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. Increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. A recent editorial in this jou...

ANCA Diagnostics in Clinical Practice: New Developments

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are the hallmark of the so-called ANCAassociated vasculitides (AAV) (Jennette & Falk, 1997). These primary small-vessel vasculitides comprise granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, previously referred to as Wegener’s granulomatosis) (Falk et al, 2011), the Churg-Straus syndrome (CSS), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), and renal-limited necrotizing cre...

Developments in Practice XXXIV: Application Portfolio Management

Developments in Practice XI: Developing IT Professionalism

Recent conversations with IT managers suggest that IT professionalism is a growing problem for them and for their organizations. Managers are frustrated that many of their newer employees simply don’t understand what it means to “be professional” in their job. Neither schools nor companies teach professionalism. Instead, it remains an unarticulated set of working behaviors, attitudes, and expec...