Extra duties offset NSF gains

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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) facilitate largescale identification of genomic variants that are associated with complex traits. However, susceptibility loci identified by GWAS so far generally account for a limited fraction of the genotypic variation in patient populations. Predictive models based on identified loci also have modest success in risk assessment and therefore are of limit...

Nsf Grant #0755995 Nsf Program Name: Nanomanufacturing

This technical paper reports progress on two fronts on the proposed research in the field of Nanoxerography. Aspect 1 reports on a new nanolens approach on the basis of charged resist structures to print nanoparticles with high resolution – a 3 fold size reduction has been observed between the structures and the assembled particles. Directed assembly was observed due to a naturally occurring in...

Conflicting clinical duties.

The first three articles in the Clinical Ethics section of this issue of Journal of Medical Ethics address potential conflicting duties of physicians. The first paper, by Niklas Juth and Niels Lynöe (see page 215, Editor’s choice), reports results of an empirical study of Swedish physicians’ attitudes regarding the provision of virginity certificates or hymen restorations requested by women, of...

Rights and Duties

Evolutionary Computation: Challenges and duties

Evolutionary Computation (EC) is now a few decades old. The impressive development of the field since its initial conception has made it one of the most vigorous research areas, specifically from an applied viewpoint. This should not hide the existence of some major gaps in our understanding on these techniques. In this essay we propose a number of challenging tasks that –according to our opini...