Activities of the Terminology Research Group during past 20 Years

Plant science research productivity in Chile during the past 20 years.

The purpose of this study was to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the articles published in Chile during 1987-2006 that were categorized into the Plant Science discipline by ISI. The data was extracted from the Web of Science datábase, obtaining a total of 911 articles for analysis. Almost half of the articles were the outcome of an international collaboration, the United States being the c...

Past Research Activities

20 Years Past Weiser: What's Next?

I n 1999—almost a decade after Mark Weiser wrote his seminal article1—the then-popular search engine Alta Vista found seven hits in response to a “pervasive computing” search query. Today, Google responds with more than 1,900,000 search results (or 2,300,000 for “ubiquitous computing”). The dawning of this research field is over—we’ve reached the break of day! The question now is, what’s next? ...

Home visiting for the prevention of child maltreatment: lessons learned during the past 20 years.

For nearly two decades, home visitation has been promoted as a promising strategy to prevent child maltreatment, but reviews of the literature on home visiting programs have been mixed. This article examines how home visitation for the prevention of child maltreatment has evolved during the past 20 years. It reviews several home visitation programs focused on preventing child maltreatment and h...

History and Activities of the U.s.s.r. Academy of Sciences during the past Twenty-five Years.

Obituary: Charles Benedict Davenport: DR. OSCAR RIDDLE. Leroy Sheldon Palmer: DR. CORNELIA KENNEDY. Deaths and Memorials .................. 441 Scientific Events: The Hall of Mexican and Central American Archeology of 'the American Museum of Natural History; The Munsell Foundation to Promote Color Standardization; The North Carolina State College Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi; Election...