The Open Science Challenge: Adopt One Practice that Enacts Widely Shared Values

To Adopt or Not to Adopt - That is the Question

The area of adoption and diffusion has had a strong pro-innovation bias (Brancheau and Wetherbe 1990; Parthasarathy and Bhattacherjee 1998; Ram 1987; Venkatesh and Brown 2001). This bias has resulted in somewhat of a neglect of the area of non-adoption. Existing theories including TAM (Davis 1989) and the innovation diffusion theory (Rogers 1983) provide critical insights into technology usage....

Science, politics, and values: the politicization of professional practice guidelines.

Deciding to Adopt Requirements Traceability in Practice

The use of requirements traceability for information systems development (ISD) projects is not very common in practice despite its often mentioned advantages in the literature. We conducted a case study in a large IT company to identify the factors that are relevant for the decision whether or not to adopt traceability in an ISD project. Five dominant factors emerged: development organization a...

Improving the Address Translation Performance of Widely Shared Pages

Operating systems allow multiple processes to share physical objects, e.g., shared libraries, System V shared memory. Many UNIX® implementations allow processes to use different virtual addresses known as aliases to map a shared physical page. Each alias traditionally requires separate page table and translation lookaside buffer (TLB) entries that contain identical translation information. In s...

A challenge to the seven widely believed concepts of COPD

This review proposes a critical reassessment (based entirely on published evidence) of the following seven common beliefs about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): (1) COPD is one disease. (2) There is a valid definition for COPD. (The current definition includes cases of irreversible asthma and bronchiectasis, and occasionally, other obstructive lung conditions). (3) Irreversible ast...