was appointed by the Home Secretary, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister of Education. The mention of the first and third of these sponsors suggests that the chief enquiry was to discover what effect the cinema had on children?particularly whether it had a bad effect?and this information, one may guess, is what most people would expect from such an enquiry. If this is so, then ...

Recent reports by ethnographic researchers and media sources suggest that many African American students view academic success as a form of "acting white," and that peer pressure reduces their level of effort and performance. This article analyzes the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to answer three questions: (1) do blacks experience greater alienation toward school than non-Hispa...

At the time of writing, final reports from well over two hundred Preparatory Commissions in nearly twenty countries are pouring into the London Office. These are being grouped under the most appropriate subject, and when this classification is complete, a team of editors from the Central Commissions and elsewhere will produce an integrated document on each subject. These documents and the origi...

How do people adapt to organizational culture and what are the consequences for their outcomes in the organization? These fundamental questions about culture have previously been examined using self-report measures, which are subject to reporting bias, rely on coarse cultural categories defined by researchers, and provide only static snapshots of cultural fit. In contrast, we develop an interac...

In recent years, information systems (IS) outsourcing is increasing in business organizations as a way to govern their IS operations. Burgeoning IS costs, lack of IS organization's responsiveness to users, and a renewed emphasis on return on IS investment are among some of the reasons towards this trend. Media reports are almost unanimous, and at times euphoric, in their claims of benefits. How...

In this paper, I will explore ideas advanced by Bradshaw, Pence and others who have written on compassion in healthcare. I will attempt to see how and whether their assumptions about compassion can be justified, and explore the role compassion should play in a modern healthcare system. I will justify scepticism at the idea of attempting to incentivise compassion through metrics. The Francis Rep...

Modern ERP systems contain flexible report generators but the tendency exists for users to export data to spreadsheets for manipulation, reporting and decision making. A purported reason for this is that some users are more familiar with personal reporting tools (spreadsheets) as opposed to enterprise reporting tools. The author's doctoral research intends to measure the extent of spreadsheet u...

is fundamental to the conduct of contemporary science, there has been little research into this topic in information studies. This article reports on a study in which, using ethnographic methods, the author studied record-keeping as it is practiced in a basic research science laboratory. The process by which the record is created to reflect both personal need and professional norms is framed as...

The geographic knowledge of Central and Far Eastern Asia was impressively widened, during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, by a great number of literary reports that described the customs, religions, and cultural habits of several previously ignored peoples. Since Ramusio’s times, scholars dealing with the history of European explorations have often taken into account such phenomena as ...

States and localities across the country are continuously seeking answers and solutions to the problems facing our most vulnerable children and families. Traditional state and local government responses have historically resulted in cumbersome, bureaucratic systems, lacking in their ability to respond in a flexible and timely manner to the immediate and real needs of families. Children living i...