Seizing the Opportunity: Towards a Historiography of Information Systems

Seizing the opportunity: towards a historiography of information systems

Historical perspectives are only timidly entering the world of IS research compared to historical research in management or organization studies. If major IS outlets have already published history-oriented papers, the number of historical papers although increasing remains low. We carried out a thematic analysis of all papers on History and IS published between 1972 and 2009 indexed on ABI and ...

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Seizing the Opportunity: Exploiting Web Aggregation

This paper examines the development of web aggregators, entities that collect information from a wide range of sources, with or without prior arrangements, and add value through post-aggregation services. New Web-page extraction tools, context sensitive mediators, and agent technologies have greatly reduced the barriers to constructing aggregators. We predict that aggregators will soon emerge i...

Seizing an opportunity for the endocannabinoid system.

Exogenous cannabinoids can limit seizures and neurodegeneration, and their actions are largely mimicked by endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids). Endocannabinoids are mobilized by epileptiform activity and in turn influence this activity by inhibiting synaptic transmission; both excitatory and some inhibitory synapses can be suppressed, leading to potentially complex outcomes. Moreover, th...

a tripartite model of efl teachers attributions, burnout, and ‎self-regulation: towards the prospects of effective teaching

همطالعه حاضر به ارائه مدلی برای آموزش موثر زبان انگلیسی ‏می پردازد. مدل حاضر از سه عامل تاثیر گذار در کارایی ‏تدریس معلمان زبان انگلیسی بهره می برد. این سه عامل شامل ‏سبکهای اسنادی، خود تنطیمی و فرسودگی شغلی معلمان ایرانی ‏زبان انگلیسی می باشد. رساله مورد نظر درچهار فاز طراحی ‏شده است: فاز اول شامل طراحی و رواسازی پرسشنامه سبکهای ‏اسنادی معلمان زبان انگلیسی و فاز دوم شامل استفاده از ‏این پرسشنا...