Hanging Loose

Loose Couplings

Loose Change

European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 379–381. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.40 In this issue of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), we have a Special Section on I.S. in Interorganizational Networks and four more Opinion papers. The papers in I.S. in Interorganizational Networks were edited by Diederik W. van Liere, Peter H.M. Vervest, Benn Konsynski and Chris Holland. Than...

Hanging Drop Tissue Culture

The hanging drop tissue culture is a technique utilized in embryology [4] and other fields to allow growth that would otherwise be restricted by the flat plane of culture dishes and also to minimize the surface area to volume ratio, slowing evaporation. The classic hanging drop culture is a small drop of liquid, such as plasma or some other media allowing tissue growth, suspended from an invert...

Loose Ends

Most research projects produce generalizations to be pursued, conjectures to be proved, and special cases to be pondered–often meant to be dealt with at a later date. In this talk, I’ll give examples of such postponements from my own work that I hope will be interesting. Notation is pretty standard, I think. An [n; k]q code is a linear code of length n and dimension k over the …nite …eld Fq of ...

Autoerotic asphyxia by hanging.

A case of sexual asphyxial death by hanging is presented. A 41-year-old man was found dead hanging by a towrope. A mirror was placed in front of a table, reflecting him in full height. A photograph of a celebrity mannequin was found against him. The towrope was arranged for the compression of the neck, and controlled voluntarily by a shower apparatus. Autopsy findings revealed an ascending liga...