Shifting Ground

Shifting Ground for Big Data Researchers

To harness the strength of data sets growing by leaps and bounds every day, cultural norms in biomedical research are under pressure to change with the times.

Shifting ground: A definite deficit in adult article production

Interlocutors are typically thought to keep track of information that is shared between speaker and listener (i.e., common ground) and information that is available only to the speaker (i.e., privileged ground). In this study, we investigated whether speakers take their interlocutor’s knowledge into account when choosing between definite articles (e.g., the) and indefinite articles (e.g., a) in...

Shifting Sugars and Shifting Paradigms

No organism lives in a constant environment. Based on classical studies in molecular biology, many have viewed microbes as following strict rules for shifting their metabolic activities when prevailing conditions change. For example, students learn that the bacterium Escherichia coli makes proteins for digesting lactose only when lactose is available and glucose, a better sugar, is not. However...

The Shifting Ground Between Markets and Hierarchy: Managing a Portfolio of Relationships

Shifting Ground for Health Information Systems: Local Embeddedness, Global Fields, and Legitimation

This article addresses the institutional scaling of information systems through the interplay of globally distributed free and open source software development with organizational processes. Through examining various phases of a long term project to implement information systems for the public health care sector in resource-poor countries, we highlight changing sources of acceptance and legitim...