Craft Surrogates

Biomarkers, putative surrogates, surrogates, and decision making.

T he development of new therapies is slow, expensive, and frustrating. The failure rate for new molecular entities exceeds 90%, and total research and development costs per successful new molecular entity are currently estimated to be nearly $2 billion. 1 Consternation about the complexity of therapeutic development recently prompted a major report by the President's Council of Advisors on Scie...

Development of Interactive Multimedia Courseware (e-craft) for Craft Education

The e-CRAFT is specially designed for songket weaving course taught to certificate and diploma students from Fakulti Seni Kraf Tenunan in their first year study at Institut Kraf Negara, Malaysia (National Craft Institute). The courseware was developed in a web-based environment and overall development process was based on the Dick and Carey's process model and conceptual Instructional Design fr...

The Craft Consumer : Culture , craft and consumption in a postmodern

This article proposes that social scientists should explicitly recognize the existence of consumers who engage in ‘craft consumption’ and, hence, of an additional image of the consumer to set alongside those of ‘the dupe’,‘the rational hero’ and the ‘postmodern identity-seeker’. The term ‘craft’ is used to refer to consumption activity in which the ‘product’ concerned is essentially both ‘made ...

The Craft of Modeling

The craft of programming