While a strategic imperative for financial institutions, major differences currently exist among banks' ability to convert their customers to using the internet. In addition, not a lot is known as to what drives those differences, although one can easily hypothesize that on-line banking adoption must be due to a combination of demand (“pull”) and firm (“push”) factors. This paper presents a sta...

Auguste Comte is frequently ridiculed by astronomers for saying that human beings would never be able to know the physical nature and constitution of the stars. His philosophy, however, influenced scientists throughout his lifetime and for over a century after his death. That influence is traced here in the work of three outstanding scientists who spanned, roughly speaking, three successive gen...

The present paper is a defense of the view that there is a faculty of rational intuition that delivers prima facie justified beliefs about philosophical propositions. I have no high-church analysis of the concept of faculty, and only employ the word in the following innocuous sense. If anything is a faculty, then sense perception is. If intuition is sufficiently similar to perception, then it t...

Donna P Manca ([email protected]) Greiver Michelle ([email protected]) June C Carroll ([email protected]) Salvalaggio Ginetta ([email protected]) Andrew Cave ([email protected]) Jess Rogers ([email protected]) James Pencharz ([email protected]) Carolina Aguilar ([email protected]) Rebekah Barrett ([email protected]) Shelley Bi...

Frank Reith, Maggy F Lengke, Donna Falconer, David Craw and Gordon Southam School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, CSIRO Land and Water, Waite Laboratories, Urrbrae, South Australia, Australia; Geomega Inc., Boulder, CO, USA; Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, Londo...

Type I IFN receptor controls B cell expression of nucleic acid sensing toll-like receptors and autoantibody production in a murine model of lupus Arthritis Research & Therapy 2009, 11:R112 doi:10.1186/ar2771 Donna L Thibault ([email protected]) Kareem L Graham ([email protected]) Lowen Y Lee ([email protected]) Imelda Balboni ([email protected]) Paul J Hertzog (paul.hertz...

The evolution of ecclesiastical architecture during the Early Byzantine period was marked by a major development in construction technology: the gradual transition from the building system of the “timber-roof basilica” to the one of the vaulted church. The early stages of this development seem to date back to the period between the late 5th and the 7th century AD and some of its earliest manife...