Concern grows for Turkey's academics

Getting Published for Academics

It is by no means a trivial matter to undertake a research project and produce an academic paper to a publishable standard. However, it is not as difficult as many university teachers who do not publish believe. The single most difficult step is the first one of getting started. Once this has been taken the apparent enormity of the problem often substantially dwindles. Eight points are suggeste...

Telepresence Robots for Academics

Telepresence robotics is a sophisticated form of robotic remote control in which a human operator has a sense of being on location – that is, of being telepresent. I propose a demonstration of two telepresence robots, one floor model (VGo) and one tabletop model (KUBI). In this proposal, I describe the technology and briefly summarize the research that led to the purchase of the robots. The res...

Why Government Grows (and Grows) in a Democracy

concern for globalization

today the term globalization is associated with concepts such as unity of economies and societies, the merging of civilizations, of manufacturing and trading companies with banks, change of customs’ policies, increase of trading relations, development of cultural and diplomatic relations, worries of developing countries. globalization is in the best interests of a country if that country has fu...

Bioethics Grows Up

W hen I taught my first course in bioethics to first-year students at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in the spring semester of 1981, bioethics was still in its formative years. There were scant few textbooks around and even fewer anthologies, and I could not assume that any of my students had ever read anything by a bioethicist or about bioethics. The key institutions ...