Bounded rationality has been an important theme throughout the history of the theory of organizations, because it explains the sharing of information processing tasks and the existence of administrative staffs that coordinate large organizations. This article broadly surveys the theories of organizations that model such bounded rationality and decentralized information processing. Author’s addr...

A survey of Genbank entries for complete microbial genomes reveals that the majority do not conform to the Genbank standard. Typical deviations from the Genbank standard include records with information in incorrect fields, addition of extraneous and confusing information within a field, and omission of useful fields. This situation results from two principal causes: genome centres do not submi...

Incident-to billing presents one of the last remaining opportunities for physicians to multiply their services and increase their income without having to work harder. However, the regulations which govern this practice under both the federal Medicare program and the various state Medicaid programs can present pitfalls to unwary physicians and their staffs who fail to properly understand and ap...

We thank staffs of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, participants at the Federal Reserve System applied microeconomics conference, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Annual Bank Research Conference and seminar participants at Villanova University for valuable comments. The views presented in this paper are solely those of the autho...

Stroke remains the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, despite declining morbidity and mortality rates. Patients who receive timely care provided by mobile stroke treatment unit staffs have dramatically improved outcomes compared with patients who receive initial treatment in an emergency department. Portable imaging technology and wireless communication devices have contributed ...

IS departments have long wrestled with the concept of charging for both the use of computing resources and the services their staffs provide to customers. The growing complexity of the technical environment, especially the proliferation of client/server computing and the use of the Internet, introduces new issues into the chargeback debate. This article proposes alternative charging methodologi...

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Editorial Abstract: What used to be science fiction is becoming reality. Command, control, in­ telligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C2ISR) technology has so progressed that it may soon be possible to direct warfare in real time from or through C2ISR platforms. Colonel Bing­ ham introduces such a concept of effects-based joint operations that would give commanders in chief unprecedented...

The majority of the time, during the performance of a bioequivalence trial, clinicians exercise extreme care in the selection of volunteers in order to obtain a homogeneous population, and control several sources of variation, such as diet, fasting period, hydration, and drug administration (among others), to the extent possible, to limit interand intra-individual variability and to achieve the...

On the background of effects of information technology on operations of University libraries, grasp the steps of library circulation management industry, timely take measures to manage the circulation comprehensively, rapidly and properly uses the individual advantages of intelligence, convenience and integration of network platform. Expand the ways to circulate. Stably improve the qualities an...