The ambivalence implicit in the two versions of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982; "Director's Cut," 1992) echoes the diverse and divided critical responses to the film(s). Indeed, this film about authenticity and simulation has been so thoroughly interpreted and rewritten—by even its director—that a naive return to the "original" is, perhaps fittingly, untenable. This essay does not advance a ...

European Journal of Information Systems (2012) 21, 587–591. doi:10.1057/ejis.2012.46 As we approach our 22nd volume, the European Journal of Information Systems is a mature and successful scholarly outlet. The identity crises have waned. The scholarly readers seem to be comfortable with the idea of information systems (IS) as an academic discipline. Indeed, we are accustomed to the notion that ...

Making backup is so cumbersome and expensive that individuals hardly ever backup their data and companies usually duplicate their data into a secondary server. This paper proposes a novel Peer-to-Peer (P2P) backup system known as the SecureBackup service, which was defined in the DisPairse research project. It utilizes the unused personal hard disk spaces attached to the Internet to implement a...

Vertical distributions of (36)Cl and (99)Tc are presented from deep and shallow lysimeters above artificially controlled water tables for a 4-yr experiment from 1990 to 1993. Activity concentration profiles were all measured in late summer when a winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Pastiche) crop was harvested. After harvest, activity concentrations in different organs of the crop were deter...

In 1992 Sir Charles Mackerras recorded a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Chorus.1 Sweeping away the cobwebs of previous tradition, he produced a fresh new version that was immediately hailed by the critics. The authors of The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs (“Penguin Guide”) awarded it not only three stars for “an outstanding performan...

Rarely in public policy is there a consensus on the nature of a social problem. Yet, there is general agreement among policymakers, researchers, clients, and carers that services needed by persons with complex and multiple needs are haphazardly organised and mired in bureaucratic intransigence (Kahn & Kamerman, 1992; Mechanic, 1995; Webb, 1991). The problem, dating back to the 1960s in both the...