Each year, millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) migrate up to 3000 km from their overwintering grounds in central Mexico to breed in eastern North America. Malcolm et al. (1993) articulated two non-mutually exclusive hypotheses to explain how Monarchs re-colonize North America each spring. The 'successive brood' hypothesis proposes that monarchs migrate from Mexico to the Gulf Coa...

Aotearoa Health, New Zealand. Laurence A Malcolm, MD, FRCPE, FFPHM, Professor Emeritus and Consultant. Lawrence A Malcolm is Professor Emeritus and former Professor of Community Health at the University of Otago. He has extensive New Zealand and international experience in health services development, especially in primary care. Reprints will not be available from the author. Correspondence: Pr...

How do information technology capabilities contribute to firm performance? This study develops a conceptual model linking IT-enabled information management capability with three important organizational capabilities (customer management capability, process management capability, and performance management capability). We argue that these three capabilities mediate the relationship between infor...

Introduction An increasing number of organisations, as part of a strategic planning approach to continuous improvement, are starting to use policy deployment. In Western organisations the interest in policy deployment has primarily been generated by the use of self-assessment against a recognised model for business excellence such as the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Model a...

The engineering education system of India is becoming increasingly complex due to reasons like unmanageable numbers of colleges affiliated to universities, wide spectrum of student quality, multi-boss system in management and conflicting interests of stakeholders. Since the Accreditation board of engineering and technology (ABET) of U.S., Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) of U.S. ...

For the first time a malaria vaccine is to be tested for possible inclusion in national immunization programmes. Malcolm Molyneux tells Fiona Fleck why governments may need to work hard to convince people of its benefits.