Although the findings are largely theoretical, they could have practical consequences, since systems like the ion channel often operate in configurations that produce large amounts of internal noise -- exactly the situation in which the new calculations say external noise could quiet the flow.
Hackers offered to decrypt the files for a (relatively small) ransom (which it looks like the city has not paid, since systems are still offline).
Researchers focusing on systems as their unit of analysis face issues of collecting data, since systems and processes within firms are difficult to observe.
Since systems using Tomlinson-Harashima precoding do not suffer from error propagation, channel coding can be applied together with precoding with a gain in error performance.
This result is also intuitive, since systems that react quickly to the loss of a node will tend to have fewer conflicts and, thus, fewer consistency problems.
Since systems development is knowledge intensive, inclusion of cognitive and knowledge aspects provide a more complete model of how methodologies influence the various aspects of the IS artifact.
