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Your Magazine (From the Editor) - Control Systems Magazine, IEEE

Surely, you’ve read in-flight magazines, even when you’ve had work to do. Articles on fascinating subjects such as the science of laughter and the world’s best concierge are hard to resist. But suppose you’d tucked the magazine you’re now reading into the seat pocket in front of you and then inadvertently abandoned it upon reaching your destination. What chain of events might such an oversight ...

The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

Information and Communication Technology in Combating Counterfeit Drugs

Pharma frauds are on the rise, counterfeit drugs are giving sleepless nights to patients, pharmaceutical companies and governments. The laws prohibiting the sales of counterfeit drugs cannot succeed without technological interventions. Several analytical techniques and tools including spectroscopy, holograms, barcoding, differentiated packing, radio frequency identification, fingerprints, hyper...

From the Editor-in-Chief: Make Some Time to Share Your Creative Ideas and Best Practices!

Editorial May brings warmer weather, the end of a semester, and the beginning of what I like to call " conference season. " Conferences are an important venue for sharing our work and rejuvenating our teaching. Biology educators will have an opportunity to gather at many interesting meetings and conferences this summer to share new ideas and best practices. Of course, the American Society for M...

Letter to the editor--Combating bias: the next step in fighting cognitive and psychological contamination.