Ethical issues is a problem (issues) or situation which requires business organization person to select the choices that have be examined as ethical (right) unethical (wrong) ways. The needed full of ideas, reflection, understanding, logical thinking thoughts, and great planning resolved in unfolded solutions. utmost basic necessary management are confronting integrity (honesty) trust. fundamen...

Current size About ten text collections containing up to a million pages each; One music collection containing ten thousand melodies Subject matter Computer science technical reports and bibliographies, humanitarian development information, indigenous peoples issues, public-domain English literature, and magazines Information sources Various national and international Interfaces WWW, including ...

The "Centre Interuniversitaire de Calcul de Grenoble", CICG, is Center for Information Resources and Technology shared by the five universities of Grenoble (representing 63,000 students and a number of renowned research labs). CICG provides Management Information Systems (MIS) and backbone networks. MIS software is Unix, Oracle client/server based. Major issues for the MIS department are availa...

The size of The Boeing Company posts some stringent requirements on data warehouse design and implementation. We summarize four interesting and challenging issues in developing very large scale data warehouses, namely failure recovery, incremental update maintenance, cost model for schema design and query optimization, and metadata definition and management. For each issue, we give the reasons ...

The median survival of patients with ovarian cancer has increased steadily, mainly due to a multidisciplinary approach including surgery and chemotherapy. This editorial article summarizes the important messages taken from clinical research performed in this field over the last 15 years. It deals with the following issues: screening, prevention, management of early and advanced disease, mainten...

In resource-poor countries, substantial sums of money from governments and international donors are used to purchase equipment for health facilities. WHO estimates that 50—80% of such equipment remains non-functional. This article is based on experience from various projects in developing countries in Asia and Africa. The key issues in the purchase, distribution, installation, management and ma...

Proxy caching is an effective technique to reduce the network resources consumed by web services as well as the access latencies perceived by web users. This article discusses the issues and challenges of deploying web caching proxies over the Internet. We focus on the cache management for conventional web objects such as HTML pages and images and present the state-of-the-art solutions to vario...

In resource-poor countries, substantial sums of money from governments and international donors are used to purchase equipment for health facilities. WHO estimates that 50-80% of such equipment remains non-functional. This article is based on experience from various projects in developing countries in Asia and Africa. The key issues in the purchase, distribution, installation, management and ma...

The Vallejo Sanitation and Flood Control District is performing CCTV inspections on pipes that do not have a record of such inspections. This effort was triggered by a settlement with Baykeeper, who alleged that broken pipe or pipe about to collapse would remain undetected and lead to sanitary sewer overflows. The actual result of the CCTV inspection turned out to be quite different. Instead of...