Acquired radial club hand caused by infection has been reported occasionally. We report a rare case of acquired radial club hand with an associated septic dislocation of the elbow, primarily caused by compartment syndrome following venous cannulation. The deformity and instability were treated with distraction using an external fixator followed by a centralisation procedure. At the 2-year follo...

 examination of key success factors in the organisation of purchasing  analysis of organisational design characteristics, including structural configurations, product or service characteristics, centralisation and decentralisation and mixed structures  visions of the future of purchasing from both the USA and Europe, and their implications for purchasing organisation  recent research findin...

In order to more effectively deal with certificate management issues in PKIs, there is growing interest in supplementing offline X.509 PKI models with online services. The advantages of online services include a reduction of complexity on client devices and the centralisation of certificate processing policy. An analysis of the security requirements of online models will be presented. Proposed ...

The paper investigates the area of dynamic load balancing with the specific target of massively parallel architectures. The lack of centralisation makes the architectures cost effective and scalable but requires suitable simple system policies without centralisation and with decisions based on a limited amount of information. The paper analyses the class of load balancing policies inspired to d...

With increasing competitive pressures, companies are trying to improve the quality of their processes and the work quality employee. This fact has triggered the companies to improve their information systems. Having made some investments in IT systems, those companies look for ways to gain benefits from their investments. The benefit from IS investment arise when the use of information system (...

Purpose This study intends to understand if managerial coaching, a sustainable competitive strategy, has an impact on sales performance, through customer and results orientation of the salesforce. It also aims investigate whether pressure for results, one predominant demands in organizations today, centralisation decisions, traditional management demand still present several organizations, unde...

Objective High caseload is considered one of the most important factors for good outcomes after high-risk surgeries such as oesophagectomy. However, many Australian centres perform low volumes of oesophagectomies due to demographics. The aim of the present study was to audit outcome after oesophagectomy in an Australian low-volume centre over a period of 13 years and to discuss potential contri...

This research examines information systems strategic planning (ISSP) in multinationals from the perspective of the subsidiaries. The research was carried out through interviews with the IT and business managers in subsidiaries of nine large American, European, and Japanese multinationals. The evidence from this study reveals that, in the majority of these organisations, IS planning is either ce...