This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people’s lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the In...

This paper presents emerging Good Practices for Translatability Assessment (TA) of Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures. The ISOQOL Translation and Cultural Adaptation Special Interest Group (TCA-SIG) undertook the review of several TA approaches, with the collaboration of organizations who are involved in conducting TA, and members of the TCA-SIG. The effort led to agreement by the writing ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Green management Strategic flexibility Institutional support Organizational legitimacy Firm competitiveness Combining the dynamic capability perspective and institutional theory, this study examines how firms in emerging economies respond to green management pressures and measures what they gain by adopting green management practices. Drawing on data from 272 Chi...

As the mobile phone industry converges with the IT/software industry, the emerging internetenabled multifunctional mobile devices are bringing together many diverse stakeholders. This paper examines the under-researched area of mobile application developers. We frame our study within the wider context of the mobile application industry in order to illustrate how the business models of large IT ...

Component-based software engineering (CBSE) spans a range of technologies and engineering practices. Engineering practices for component-based systems (e.g., design, integrate, test, deploy and sustain) are emerging, but in isolated settings rather than at a community level. The goal of this workshop is to provide a baseline understanding of the broad aspects of CBSE processes.

We conducted a survey of pediatric members of the Emerging Infections Network regarding outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) practices and clinical decision making about OPAT initiation. We identified substantial variation in characteristics and resources of pediatric OPAT practices. Opportunities to improve oversight of OPAT in children should be explored.