Charting Known Territory: Female Buddhist Priests

IADVL dermatosurgery guidelines: charting uncharted territory.

After more than a year’s hard work by Dr. Venkataram and his group, I am happy that IADVL is now publishing these guidelines written by IADVL members for IADVL members in a special issue of IJDVL. Carefully chosen authors, who are pioneers in their own fields, have contributed chapters for this issue. They have taken many pains to author these chapters and I individually congratulate them for t...

Enterprise Architecture: Charting the Territory for Academic Research

The concept of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has long been considered as a means to improve system integration and achieve better IT-business alignment by IT professionals. Recently, the subject gained significant visibility by IS academics. In this paper we provide an overview of existing EA research and practice and present key functions and benefits of EA as seen by IT professionals based on ...

Charting unknown territory: models of participation in mobile language learning

Current language learning provision seems ill-suited to meet the needs of 21st century learners. There is a growing expectation that mobile language learning will offer greater flexibility and that it will be better aligned with lifelong learning and the real needs of diverse and increasingly mobile populations travelling for work and leisure. The paper addresses the issue of how learners will ...

Charting new territory by simulated modeling of a clinical trial.

C ardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of the most common comorbidities and causes of death among patients who are treated for ESRD by hemodialysis (1). On the basis of an extensive body of clinical trial evidence, across a spectrum of high CVD risk states from prevalent disease to primary prevention, statin therapy for LDL cholesterol lowering has emerged as one of the most important strate...

Ascetic Priests and O'briens