Dr. Richard Forno directs the graduate cybersecurity program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His twenty-year career includes helping build the first formal cybersecurity program for the US House of Representatives, serving as the first Chief Security Officer at Network Solutions (the InterNIC), and co-founding the Maryland Cyber Challenge. Richard was one of the early researcher...

Despite all efforts in the last decennium, IT governance continues to be a "top 10" issue for CIO’s. The goal of our research program is to determine which disciplines and frameworks are used for IT governance and which streams in IT governance literature do best align with current practices. This study describes the results of a literature review and Delphi study of IT governance effectiveness...

objectives: the aim of this study was to translate the craig hospital inventory of environmental factors (chief) into persian language and to evaluate the validity and reliability of persian version of chief to use for children with cerebral palsy. methods: the chief was translated from english into persian based on the international quality of life assessment (iqola) approach. the persian vers...

Fernando Alfonso1, Karlen Adamyan2, Jean-Yves Artigou3, Michael Aschermann4, Michael Boehm5, Alfonso Buendia6, Pao-Hsien Chu7, Ariel Cohen8, Livio Dei Cas9, Mirza Dilic10, Anton Doubell11, Dario Echeverri12, Nuray Enç13, Ignacio Ferreira-González14, Krzysztof J. Filipiak15, Andreas Flammer16, Eckart Fleck17, Plamen Gatzov18, Carmen Ginghina19, Lino Goncalves20, Habib Haouala21, Mahmoud Hassanei...

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to welcome you in the third issue of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine and I hope you find it interesting. In this issue, beside the valuable original articles and an interesting case report, a useful review article have been published concerning the role of nuclear medicine in the management of solitary pulmonary nodule.I am proud to announce you that Journ...

Dear Colleagues and students As Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, I would like to dedicate my especial respect and appreciation for your kind regards and consideration to our journal. Fortunately, it is our pleasure to announce that Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine is now indexed in DOAJ and Magiran. Additionally we are expecting to index Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medi...

Dear Colleagues,   As Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine (JCTM), it is my pleasure to introduce this official quarterly publication of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, which is an international, peer-reviewed, and English language journal. Our aim is to publish high quality integrating clinical and experimental research in the following fields: Respiratory medici...

The broad purpose of this research is to investigate links among various sources of power available to CIOs and organizational IS strategies, the manner in which IS is perceived by senior executives in the process of strategic decision-making. We conducted a survey of CIOs and preliminary findings suggest that power derived from managing organizational contingencies corresponds to organizations...

This research-in-progress examines the impact of service climate on service productivity in IT departments in the context of enterprise system (ES) implementation. We propose that as an IT department provides internal services to other functional units in an organization, its service climate will determine its service productivity—in our case the contribution of ES to organizational performance...