Immaturity of Chance

The Immaturity of CMM

The Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) gets a lot of publicity. Given that the institute is funded by the US Department of Defense to the tune of tens of millions of dollars each year [1], this should come as no surprise=97 the folks at the SEI are the official process mavens of the military, and have the resources to spread the word about what they do. But, ...

Immaturity substances: material basis for immaturity in Paramecium.

Cells of Paramecium caudatum in the immaturity period of the life cycle contain substances which repress the expression of mating ability when introduced into mature cells. When 5 x 10 /tm of immature cytoplasm were injected into mature cells, loss of mating ability occurred and it continued for more than 15 fissions after the injection. The effective substances are contained in the soluble fra...

Newborn Physiological Immaturity

BACKGROUND Most standardized nursing care plans for healthy neonates include multiple nursing diagnoses to reflect nurses' judgments on the infant's status; however scientific literature concerning this issue is scarce. Newborn physiological immaturity is a concept in the ATIC terminology (architecture, terminology, interface, information, nursing [infermeria], and knowledge [coneixement]) to r...

Immaturity and Irresponsibility

Give chance a chance

How did I get to become a cell biologist? Or, more generally, why do things happen the way they do? The answer provided by the philosopher Democritus and later adopted by Jacques Monod is "everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." While I read Monod's book Chance and Necessity as an undergraduate student, little did I appreciate the accuracy of this citation and...