It starts with TIRs

It starts with you ... the volunteer administrator.

We know how important our profession is. Yet we are often frustrated in trying to communicate its significance to our bosses, our board chairs, our funders, the not-for-profit and government community and, even, our families and friends. How we cringe when someone says, "we ought to start a volunteer program" and turns to someone on staff and says, "in your spare time, won't you look after the ...

Green IT: Everything starts from the software

In this position paper we discuss the importance of Green IT as a new research field that investigates all the environmental and energy issues related to IT and information systems in general. In particular we focus on the energy consumption of software applications, which is amplified by all the above IT layers in a data center and thus is worth a greater attention. By adopting a top-down appr...

Stopping breast cancer before it starts.

Chronic headache: stop the pain before it starts.

Familiarity with the risks associated with medication overuse and the importance of headache prophylaxis is key to easing your patient's pain.

Metamorphosis starts with Met.

J uvenile hormone (JH) has long been known to be a potent regulator of metamorphosis in most insects, but learning how it acts has been hindered until now by failure to find an entry point for its mechanism of action. Using the beetle Tribolium castaneum, Konopova and Jindra (1) have achieved a result long and fruitlessly sought in Drosophila, which is reported in this issue of PNAS. They have ...