What Happens when Companies (don’t) Do What they Said they would? Stock Market Reactions to Strategic Integrity

Chronic diseases: what happens when they come in multiples?

Enterprise Knowledge Portals: What They Are and What They Do

The Enterprise is a continuous, dynamic “swirl” of problem-solving knowledgerelated Interactions from which knowledge is produced and integrated with the business processes of the enterprise. For a given problem generated by a business process, it is useful to abstract from the swirl and to conceptualize an iteration of a knowledge life cycle encompassing knowledge processes targeted on solving...

Understanding What They Do with What They Know (Short Paper)

This work seeks to understand what “they” (Web advertisers) actually do with the information available to them. We analyze the ads shown to users during controlled browsing as well as examine the inferred demographics and interests shown in Ad Preference Managers provided by advertisers. In an initial study of ad networks and a focused study of the Google ad network, we found many expected cont...

They Said He Would Never Read

Mrs. Mary McCullagh reports on the progress she has been able to make in teaching her son to read, although he had been classified as ineducable. The trouble is, of course, that I'm not supposed to be doing it at all. Once your child is classified as 'in-educable', then it follows almost as the night the day that he or she will never read. Not perhaps in theory, but more often than not in pract...

Douching behavior in high-risk adolescents. What do they use, when and why do they douche?

OBJECTIVES To describe feminine hygiene practices and douching behavior in adolescent women. DESIGN A cross-sectional anonymous survey. SUBJECTS Adolescents (majority rural) admitted to a correctional institution for girls. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Description of feminine hygiene practices, prevalence of vaginal douching, types of substances used, reported reasons for, and timing of douching...