The work to develop a model curriculum and guidelines for undergraduate degree programs in Information Systems has evolved over a number of years. The current version of this effort is called the Information Systems 2002 (IS 2002) model curriculum. Many Business schools have used these guidelines as a basis for improving their IS curriculum. However, we have found, in a previous study, that, IS...

Rapid population growth continues in the least developed countries. The revisionist case that rapid population could be overcome by technology, that population density was advantageous, that capital shallowing is not a vital concern and that empirical investigations had not proved a correlation between high population growth and low per capita income was both empirically and theoretically flawe...

This article offers a historical corollary to the examination of shame in medical practice by considering the negotiation of shame in the treatment of a stigmatised disease at a time in which surgeons themselves occupied a highly ambivalent social position. It will focus on case studies provided by Daniel Turner (1667-1741), prominent surgeon and later member of the College of Physicians, in hi...

Democracy used to be a word that international legal commentators preferred to avoid. At least by the second half of the present century, this was not because too few governments identified themselves as democratic. It was rather because too many did so. The world's most repressive regimes joined their more representative counterparts in claiming a title that had become synonymous with praisewo...

We theorise that in some cases Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) predisposes to narcolepsy and hypersomnia, and that there may be a shared pathophysiology with various addictions [Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS)]. Reticence to acknowledge such connections may be due to a narrow nosological framework. Additionally, we theorise that the development of narcolepsy on a baseline of AD...

Any attempt to argue in favor of deceptive practices is bound to meet with at least initial resistance. In the context of health care activities, where what goes on is often quite literally a matter of life and death, deceptive practices would seem to be totally objectionable. But with a little reflection, we might be led to alter our generally negative attitude toward using deceptive technique...

Social living brings humans great rewards, but also associated dangers, such as increased risk of infection from others. Although the body's immune system is integral to combating disease, it is physiologically costly. Less costly are evolved mechanisms for promoting avoidance of people who are potentially infectious, such as perceiving oneself as less social and increasing the tendency to make...

Singapore’s Medisave scheme has attracted widespread interest around the globe, due to its innovative ideas and the salesmanship of Singapore’s leaders (Kwa 1994; Nichols, Prescott, and Phua 1997; Phua 1997). While countries as different as the United States, South Africa, and China have adopted some of the core ideas of Medisave, its impacts have not been critically examined. The essay “Medica...

Androgens are mainly prescribed to treat several diseases caused by testosterone deficiency. However, athletes try to promote muscle growth by manipulating testosterone levels or assuming androgen anabolic steroids (AAS). These substances were originally synthesized to obtain anabolic effects greater than testosterone. Although AAS are rarely prescribed compared to testosterone, their off-label...

What Niels Bohr called the ‘epistemological lesson’ of ‘complementarity’ was the result of reasoning analogically from the classical conception of a mechanical state to a new quantum mechanical conception of an ‘object’ in a mechanical state. Bohr proposed to redefine the ‘objectivity’ essential for scientific description in terms of the epistemological demand for unambiguously communicable des...