Is this a world-wide problem?

This World Is Yours

This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island . . . (1). When Woody Guthrie wrote and sang these lyrics in 1940, the song was more than a paean to a beautiful country. It was a call to recognize the inherent dignity of the common man. The song’s passion arose from Guthrie’s experiences during the Great Depression, when he traveled with other migrants from ...

Is this (still) a man's world?

During the past 50 years, the participation of women in medicine has increased dramatically. However, this encouraging influx has not been accompanied by equality for male and female faculty in terms of rank attainment, leadership roles and salaries. There is considerable evidence that women are still under-represented in the higher echelons of academic medicine, either as heads of departments,...

Travel-related thrombosis: is this a problem?

World Wide Web usability: introduction to this special issue

This special issue arises out of a symposium entitled ‘‘The Missing Link: Hypermedia Usability Research & The Web’’, held at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute in May 1996 (Buckingham Shum, 1996). As the title suggests, we felt there was something missing between the vast amount of hypermedia and related human— computer interaction (HCI) research that has been conducted, and the mo...

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