Are Busy Boards Effective Monitors?

DisA, a Busy Bee That Monitors Chromosome Integrity

When nutrients are limited many prokaryotic and some eukaryotic cells tuck their chromosomes safely away in resistant spores. However, before starting the sporulation process, the prokaryote Bacillus subtilis wisely ensures that its chromosome is intact. In this issue of Cell, Bejerano-Sagie et al. (2006) describe a protein, DisA, that is responsible for the surveillance of chromosome integrity...

Effective boards in the NHS?

Are we too busy to be happy?

Busy Boards, Corporate Liquidity and Financial Risk: Evidence from UK Panel Data

This study examines a relationship between corporate financial risk and board “busyness”. We offer new insights by evaluating two conflicting views on the quality of service that busy directors provide to corporate boards and their impact on board effectiveness. One view claims that directors who serve on multiple boards improve board decision making ability as they have better experience and b...

Are Virtual-Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right?

A paper by Hand et al. at the recent HotOS workshop re-examined microkernels and contrasted them to virtual-machine monitors (VMMs). It found that the two kinds of systems share architectural commonalities but also have a number of technical differences which the paper examined. It concluded that VMMs are a special case of microkernels, “microkernels done right”. A closer examination of that pa...