COUNTER Project: Introductory remark

New opportunities in animal breeding and production - an introductory remark.

New opportunities in animal breeding and production will be offered by methods for embryo production and the introduction of precise genetic changes in livestock species. A review of current procedures shows that they have been improved during the last 4 years, but still have significant limitations. In the light of experience over the past 50 years it seems likely that these methods will contr...

A microprocessor design project in an introductory VLSI course

The introductory VLSI design course at the University of Michigan has been ooered for over 10 years. More recently, it has been reorganized around a microprocessor design project. This paper describes the course philosophy and content, and the baseline project from which class projects begin. The introductory VLSI course, EECS427, teaches mask-level layout and integrated circuit design veriicat...

A Project-Oriented Organization for an Introductory Computational Science Course

Dealing with students of diverse majors, mathematical background and programming experience presents a challenge to interdisciplinary courses such as “Introduction to Computational Science.” The author’s solution to this problem was to base the course on a sequence of interesting and illustrative problems/projects. This approach allows the physical models, mathematical models, numerical techniq...

Sports Law: Some Introductory Considerations

With the rise of importance of sport as a social phenomenon in recent decades, more public attention has been paid to the issue of the legal nature of the rules governing social relations in sports. The issue raised above are only a part of a much broader topic that involves questions of relations of a classical Westphalian state and changes in the international community as well as issues of t...

A Remark on a Remark by Macaulay or Enhancing Lazard Structural Theorem