185 Koh and others have reported (in this issue of the MJM) the high prevalence of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on doctors’ neckties. As they have pointed out, this is nothing new, and like other studies with similar findings. They also point out that patient’s confidence and satisfaction are not affected by doctor’s not wearing neckties. They also referred to the British ...

This created some good habits for me, such as defensive programming, careful desk checking, test planning, and analyzing before coding. But it also created some bad habits--a preoccupation with saving microseconds, patching object code, etc--which were hard to unlearn when the balance of hardware and software costs began to tip the other way. For example, when Fortran came to General Dynamics i...

1 Jack Rockart was the senior editor accepting this paper. Portions of this paper are adapted from a previously published teaching case study: Ives, B., G. Piccoli, “Custom-made Apparel and Individualized Service at Lands’ End,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, (11:3), January 2003. 2 In mid-2002, Sears acquired Lands’ End. rugby shirts. Stressing quality and value rat...

A correction to Figure 2 is given below, with the x-axis description being added. Figure 2. (a) Cradle-to-grave climate footprint of biocidal T-shirts and a regular T-shirt (100 washings). Error bars show the upper bound of the 95% confidence interval for the results (Monte Carlo Analysis of the inventory, see also SI S8; commercialized = comm.). (b) Sensitivity analysis of the use phase. The p...

The aim of this work was to analyze the influence stretch on liquid moisture transport through knitted fabrics for T-shirts. Five variants cotton and blended were measured by means Moisture Management Tester. Measurements have been performed samples in unstretched state stretched 15%. To precisely fabrics, MMT Stretch Fabric Fixture has applied. results analyzed statistically order assess param...

I'm sitting at a table in a Frankfurt airport waiting room, playing bridge with three high school students. Slung about my waist is a fanny pack stu ed with passports and plane tickets for eight. A cacophony of Greek buzzes about us, as tired travellers wait to board the plane to Athens. Among them is our contingent, easily distinguishedby our bright red golf shirts emblazoned with red maple le...

Recently, a new computing paradigm has emerged: a worldwide distributed computing environment consisting of thousands or even millions of heterogeneous processors, frequently volunteered by private citizens across the globe (1). This large number of processors dwarfs even the largest modern supercomputers. In addition to the scientific possibilities suggested by such enormous computing resource...