A Pause for Reflection

Pause for reflection

Why such relentless phreneticism? Why, when the media consider a piece of science to be of public interest, do they invariably splash it as news for immediate consumption? Why so little insight, so few reflective or truly helpful feature articles after a pause for thought? One answer is that, along with novelty, we all need topicality (real or apparent) to attract our attention to a news story....

Foundation Evaluation Startup: A Pause for Reflection

Two transcription pause elements underlie a σ70-dependent pause cycle.

The movement of RNA polymerase (RNAP) during transcription elongation is modulated by DNA-encoded elements that cause the elongation complex to pause. One of the best-characterized pause sequences is a binding site for the σ(70) initiation factor that induces pausing at a site near lambdoid phage late-gene promoters. An essential component of this σ(70)-dependent pause is the elemental pause si...

PAUSE: A Project Analyzer for a Unified Software Engineering Environment

Data collection is a central issue in empirical software engineering. This is especially true for independent techniques, which gather data automatically. The use and combination of data sources from different project domains is a prerequisite for the validation of many hypotheses. Capturing and combining data from heterogeneous and globally distributed sources is a non-trivial and time-consumi...

Pay for Performance: A Reflection on How a Global Perspective Could Enhance Policy and Research

Pay-for-performance (P4P) is the provision of financial incentives to healthcare providers based on pre-specified performance targets. P4P has been used as a policy tool to improve healthcare provision globally. However, researchers tend to cluster into those working on high or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with still limited knowledge exchange, potentially ...