This paper presents a technology-independent rational inquiry into informing systems in business environments. Depending on the primary concerns, informing systems should be examined from either the viewpoint of information disseminators or informing clients. The latter viewpoint is subject to extensive empirical studies within informing science and partially within the MIT Information Quality ...

Within the pages of even this journal, some have interpreted Informing Science as the same as Information Systems. Others interpret it as the same as Information Science. It includes both of these and it is more. The field of Information Systems commonly focuses on the use of information technology to inform business managers, while the field of Information Science focuses on information retrie...

A large number of features have been proposed by researchers for on-line signature verification. However, little work has been done in measuring the consistency and discriminative power of these features. This paper presents a comparative study of features commonly used in on-line signature verification. A consistency model is developed by generalizing the existing feature-based measure to dist...

Background: Due to the lack of information about the role of 4G/5G polymorphism of PAI-1 Gene in susceptibility to thyroid tumors, this study was performed to evaluate the potential effects of this polymorphism on clinicopathologic features of thyroid tumors in Iranian Azeri Turkish patients. Methods:In this case-control study, 90 patients with thyroid tumors ...

introduction: the family physician program is one of the most important plans for increasing the equitable access and affordable health services. this study aimed to examine the performance of urban family physicians and associated factors in the third year of its implementation. method: a cross-sectional study was conducted on all family physicians (31 persons) working in the private and publi...

OBJECTIVE This study examined differences between juvenile offenders with AD(H)D (n = 1,348), with both AD(H)D and conduct problems (n = 933), and without AD(H)D or conduct problems (n = 2,180) in recidivism rates, prevalence of risk and protective factors, and strength of associations between risk/protective factors and recidivism. METHOD Existing data were used, collected with the Washingto...

This second issue of Neurology® Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation incorporates examples of the types of reports that incarnate our mission: to inform and inspire the community of neuroinflammation and neuroimmunology researchers. Tran et al. report a phase I trial of LINGO antibodies, inaugurating clinical development of remyelination therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS), and the attainment of...