Filling the Talent Gap

Collective Intelligence: Filling the Insurance Talent Gap

Biosensors: filling the gap.

A common practice for coal miners in the nineteenth century was to take a canary in a cage underground with them to warn against odourless gases such as methane or carbon monoxide. A sudden change in the usual singsong behaviour of the birds was a signal to leave the mine immediately. Indeed, it was the ability of the canaries to quickly metabolize toxic substances and the clear indication that...

Filling in the gap

ow do you construct a channel between cells ? The first step in answering this question was to isolate the components of one type of channel—the gap junction. H Daniel Goodenough had been pursuing gap junction proteins since his days as a graduate student in the mid-1960s with Jean-Paul Revel, who helped discover the structures (Revel and Karnovsky, 1967; see “Defining gap junctions” JCB 169:37...

Filling the perceptuo-motor gap

Introduction The session under focus deals with phonetic articulatory-acoustic variation and with the link between phonetic detail and phonological modelling. The underlying question was to estimate the impact of phonetic detail on the phonological status of a given unit, and to attempt to better understand how details are produced by the speaker or exploited by the listener to access (encode o...

Filling the Translation–Policy Gap

A 125 Formulating health policy without a thorough understanding of the implications of the environment's influence on health can be compared to building an airplane without an understanding of basic physics: though it may appear to have all the appropriate parts in the appropriate places, without the underlying engineering required for flight, it will never get off the ground. Or worse, it wil...