Some Thoughts Regarding Gender Issues in the Mentoring of Future Academicians

Issues in Publishing for MIS Academicians

This paper depicts some of the issues facing the academicians seeking to publish in the field of Management Information Systems (MIS). Several environmental factors or "driving forces" are identified along with the results of their interaction. The resulting situation is troublesome, but some recent developments promise opportunities for minimizing the disadvantages and exploiting the advantage...

Some Thoughts on the Near-Future Digital Mathematics Library

The mathematicians’ Digital mathematics library (DML) summarises the generous project that all mathematics ever published should end up in digital form so that it would be more easily referenced, accessed, used. This concept was formulated at the very beginning of this century, and yielded a lot of international activity that culminated around years 2002–2005. While it is estimated that a subst...

Some Thoughts on the Electoral College: Past, Present, and Future

Some Thoughts on Future Directions in Bayesian Model Selection

As advances in computational technology have made it possible to apply Bayesian methods to situations that are increasingly complex, using a wider variety of models that are increasingly more sophisticated, problems regarding model choice are now of central importance. As a result, the development of methods for doing model selection is now at the forefront of research in Bayesian statistics. T...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...