Luise von Flotow is a Professor of Translation Studies at the School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Canada. She got her BA in German and French from the University of London (1974) and her MA in French from the University of Windsor (1985) and her Ph.D. in French from the University of Michigan (1991). Professor von Flotow was the director of the School of Translation ...

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The paper considers a CASE tool, aimed at automated: database schema design, view design and application generating of a complex information system. It covers some of the tasks of Upper and Lower CASE products. The application of this CASE tool is based on special methodological techniques, which support the prototyping approach. These techniques involve so called form type concept as a databas...

The discussion on the importance of Semantic Web for the promotion of Information systems is extremely interesting. In this first newsletter we tried through personal invitations to outline only few aspects of the convergence of SW and IS. As we already mentioned in the editorial of NEWS, the Inaugural Issue of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems Journal (at the en...

and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and criticism

On 1 September 2012, HSMC celebrates 40 years! As is often the case, such a birthday is an opportunity to look back at our past, but also to take stock of where the NHS is now and what the future may hold – particularly in a difficult policy and financial context. We will be celebrating throughout the year in various ways, so please keep in touch with us via www.hsmc.bham.ac.uk. However, two of...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. His untimely demise left a wife and two loving sons, accomplished in their own rights. In the realm of Nuclear Medicine, the specialty he loved so much, he left a worldwide league of physicians and colleagues orphaned. His passion of the specialty will remain unsurpassed. ...

T the ripe age of eighty-four Lloyd Morgan has passed away. jje wag for many years the distinguished and greatlyeloved Principal of University College, and when the College deceived its charter in 1909 converting it into Bristol diversity Lloyd Morgan was designated the first Vicehancellor. He relinquished this office almost immediately, nd Sir Igambard Owen was appointed in his stead. His ecis...

While hiking in the Swiss Alps, Prof T Pexieder tragically lost his life on October 28th, 1995. Tomas Pexieder was born in Prague on the 6.6. 1941, where he undertook his undergraduate studie~ and received his M. D. in 1965 from Charles Universil y. During his last 3 years at medical school, he also dedicated himself to research at the Institute of Anatomy and published his first paper on adipo...

We are grateful to Nicolai Foss for his comment on our article.! Although we do not agree with his argument and consider it to be based on a fundamental misconception, his comment nevertheless raises an important point and gives us the opportunity to clarify our position on the role of institutions in the coordination of investment in a capitalist economy. Foss takes issue with our argument tha...