Proprietary Services Research Articles

Ultra-High Throughput Screening

Aurora Biosciences Corporation designs and develops proprietary drug discovery systems, services and technologies to accelerate and enhance the discovery of new pharmaceuticals. Aurora is developing an integrated technology platform centered around two technologies; 1) a portfolio of proprietary fluorescent assay technologies and, 2) an ultra-high throughput screening (“UHTS”) system designed to allow assay miniaturization and to overcome many of the limitations associated with the traditional drug discovery process. This approach takes advantage of the opportunities created by recent advances in genomics and combinatorial chemistry that have generated many new therapeutic targets and an abundance of new small molecule compounds. Aurora believes its integrated platform will accelerate the drug discovery process by shortening the time required to identify high quality lead compounds and to optimize those compounds into drug development candidates.

Geographic Variation in Services under Different Providers: The Case of Formal Child Care in Ontario

This study concerns geographic variation in levels of formal child care provision in the province of Ontario, Canada. The historical development of the decentralized service system is described, highlighting the emergence of public nonprofit, private nonprofit, and private proprietary service providers. Several policy measures in the recent past have attempted to restrict development of proprietary services, and this study examines in detail the geographic distribution of services prior to a number of these initiatives. Correlation analysis shows that service levels are related to measures of socioeconomic status, service need, and size and distribution of area populations. A regression model accounting for service levels in terms of socioeconomic status, single-parent families, and regional effects is described. Results differ by provider sector. Private nonprofit service levels are related to all three factors. Private proprietary services respond to socioeconomic status and to regional effects, but not to need measures. Service levels in the public nonprofit sector are not related to the model of service provision described here.

From Interactive Television to Internet Applications

Early in 1993 Viacom and a major telephony carrier formed a joint venture to trial interactive television (ITV) in Castro Valley, California. During the fall of 1994, it was decided not to complete this trial. Both companies decided, given what had already been learned planning for the ITV trial and the emerging strength of the Internet and the World Wide Web, that it would be more effective to focus on CD-ROMs, proprietary on-line services, and the Internet, including the World Wide Web, where many of the interactive applications that had been planned for ITV could be actually implemented and made available to large numbers of users. This paper discusses the interactive systems, and economic environments along with major issues, intellectual property rights, and Viacom‘s current direction.

Online resources for brain injury

This article provides an overview of available brain injury information online for health care professionals and consumers. An increasing amount of high quality medical information is available online, primarily via the World Wide Web. Recommendations in regard to type of Internet access and software are provided to assist the new and intermediate users. Electronic mail, proprietary online services, and Internet applications are briefly reviewed. In addition well established online resources, such as the Medline database are highlighted. The World Wide Web sites catalogued in this article have been linked to a single site, allowing ready access to these sites while reviewing the article; Internet address: http://griffin.vcu.edu/htmIjpmr/trowland/brainref.html. The intended audience of the article is health care professionals, including those limited experience with computers and the Internet.

Field Placements in For-Profit Organizations

The recent explosion of proprietary social services suggests that growing numbers of social work students may be placed for field work in organizations whose primary goal is the realization of profits. Information on the extent to which social work programs collaborate with proprietary agencies for field education purposes is unavailable. This article describes the results of a national survey to determine the use patterns and policies of master of social work programs regarding field placements in for-profit settings. Findings indicate that social work education is incorporating proprietary sites for field training at an unparalleled rate. Proprietary sites used most often are hospitals, nursing homes, and outpatient health care agencies. Furthermore, the study links different policy positions on for-profit placements to geographical location. The author suggests, among other recommendations, that programs provide positive role models to help students apply professional values and ethics to problems resu...

Computer networking for the European academic community: The EUREKA project cosine

Abstract A survey of the current status of academic computer networking in Europe is given. The main guidelines of the European project EUREKA-8/COSINE are presented. This aims to interconnect present-day researchers in Europe by means of computer-based communications on a vendor-independent approach, without the use of proprietary protocols and services, but by means of international agreement.

Letters to the editor: A protection model and its implementation in a dataflow system

A protection model is presented for a general purpose computing system based on tags attached as seals and signatures to values exchanged among processes. A tag attached to a value as a seal does not prevent that value from being propagated to any place within the system; rather, it guarantees that the value and any information derived from it cannot leave the system unless a matching tag is presented. A tag attached to a value as a signature is used by a process to verify the origin of the received data. Solutions to problems from the areas of interprocess communication and proprietary services are given.

The international political scene

The International Political Scene’ is a very general and somewhat vague heading, so let me start by explaining what it means in the context of my paper. Naturally, my perspective is the business viewpoint. I shall be looking at the international political environment in relation to business policy on public issues; and will discuss the more important sources of information on political developments and some of the problems of using this type of information. I say ‘discuss’ because I will be providing a commentary based on practice and experience, rather than a critical review. Also, I thought it prudent—in the interest of good relations—not to mention any proprietary services by name.