Why the acrimony of the debate between these two schools of thought? Implicit vs. explicit theory The importance of not creating straw men Contrasting tone and metaphors of theoretical language Lack of familiarity on each side with other field’s recent clinical and theoretical evolution Healthy countertransferential function of “home theory” as a holding environment in the face of patients’ unc...

This article is based on an intensive case study, the implementation of a computerized reservation system (CRS) in a transport organization, and adopts a non-essentialist stance to analyze its failure aspects. Providing a rich description of micro-level, organizational,and macro-level events and techno-economic networks enabled us to depart from managerialist and technologist accounts of the fa...

Pankaj Mehra is a Distinguished Technologist at HP where he serves as Chief Scientist of HP Labs Russia. Prior to joining HP Labs in 2005, Pankaj was: the architect of HP’s Integrated Archive Platform and NonStop Advanced Architecture; Chair of InfiniBand Management WG; CTO of IntelliFabric; and the designer of clusters that held TPC-C and Terabyte sort benchmark records. Pankaj has written 3 b...

This paper examines the learner-centered methodology used to design technical and physical components for the Constructed Narratives project. Our approach demonstrates how an interdisciplinary team of designers, artists and technologist can exploit the opportunities inherent with “symmetry of ignorance” to solve complex wicked design problems and develop the gestalt generative design methodolog...

Zuleha Ahmad, Medical Technologist, Department of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, National University of Malaysia, P. O. Box 2418, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. SUMMARY Bacterial isolates were made from the intestinal tracts ofcarious species of cockroaches (Periplaneta americana, Periplaneta brunnea, Periplaneta australasiae, Neostylopyga rhombifolia, Nauphoeta cinerea) trapped from hitchens and stor...

Potential for mechanical bleeding complications is present in all forms of heart surgery, both closed and open. Successful management of such complications often is accompanied best by the rapid institution, or re-institution, of cardiopulmonary bypass, and in some instances it cannot be accomplished without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. Therefore, the extracorporeal perfusion technologist...

The chest exam is performed more frequently than any other exam in the imaging department. It is important for radiographers to understand the standards for imaging the chest because good chest radiographs are critical in managing patient care. This article provides an overview of chest radiography from the perspective of both the radiologist and the technologist. Readers will gain an understan...

Peter Baer Galvin is the chief technologist for Corporate Technologies, a premier systems integrator and VAR (www.cptech.com). Before that, Peter was the systems manager for Brown University’s Computer Science Department. He has written articles and columns for many publications and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts and Applied Operating Systems Concepts textbooks. As a consultant ...