TLA+: Whence, Wherefore, and Whither

Not Poles Apart : " Whither Reform ? " and " Whence Reform ?

The paper "Whence Reform?" by the Polish economists Marek Dabrowski, Stanislaw Gomulka, and Jacek Rostowski (DGR) is a welcome and revealing commentary on what is called the "Stiglitz Perspective." Our main response is gratitude at DGR's agreement with the main theses of "Whither Reform?" such as the critiques of voucher privatization and of the attempts to quickly install institutional reforms...

Health care law and policy: whence and whither?

Medico-Chi: Whence and Whither?

Minis: Whence and Wherefore?

In this issue of Neuron, Sara et al. find that spontaneously released miniature synaptic potentials arise from a pool of vesicles distinct from those released by neural activity. This modification of a basic tenet of the quantal hypothesis has important implications for the analysis of changes in synaptic transmission.

A Conceptual Model for IT Service Systems

Although services are developed, used, applied and intensively discussed in nowadays IT practice, the concept of an IT service has not yet been introduced. Services are IT artifacts that can be used by many users in different context at different points of time in different locations and serve a certain purpose. They provide the data and functionality at the best point of time, in the agreed fo...