Rewriting Israeli History: New Historians and Critical Sociologists

Black Sociologists: A Critical Analysis

Delegation: Efficiently Rewriting History

Transaction delegation, as introduced in ACTA, allows a transaction to transfer responsibility for the operations that it has performed on an object to another transaction. Delegation can be used to broaden the visibility of the delegatee, and to tailor the recovery properties of a transaction model. Delegation has been shown to be useful in synthesizing Advanced Transaction Models. Withan effi...

Rewriting earnings history

Research on the usefulness of financial information generally focuses on the innovation in the information examined, such as an earnings surprise or cash flow growth. Consequently, prior research sheds little light on the role of the rich historical record of financial information in users’ decision-making. Using a sample of published restatements of earnings, we show that the revision of the h...

Rewriting nursing history

dynamic unconscious, and evolutionary theory's creation of a psychology of adaptation. Leahey has read widely in recent secondary sources; his account therefore stands out as a genuine attempt at synthesis (and is not a rehash of E. G. Boring; e.g., in the account of Wundt's ideas). But though there is reference to social change, the institutional discipline-and certainly explanatory social fac...

Do historians or chemists write better history of chemistry? (1).

This paper was the response to a challenge set me as the senior historian of chemistry (in age) serving on the ACS National Historic Chemical Landmarks Committee. The challenge was to reflect on the history of chemistry in terms of the question posed in the paper’s title. Although there is a “tongue in cheek” quality to the question, it also has its serious side and it challenged me. I have to ...