Joining the mainstream

to the Mainstream

Despite an increasing arsenal of effective treatments, there are mounting challenges in developing strategies that prevent and control cardiovascular diseases, and that can be sustained and scaled to meet the needs of those most vulnerable to their impact. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to conducting research by equitably partnering researchers and those directly a...

Finding the Mainstream

GIS began as a highly specialized application of information technology, with its own hardware devices for input and output, its own data structures, and its own algorithms for data processing. Through time more and more aspects of GIS have become mainstream, and more and more standard approaches have been adopted to replace earlier specialized ones, taking advantage of the economies of scale i...

DSP Processors Hit the Mainstream

E ngineering terminology has a way of creeping into the public tongue, often initially by way of product marketing. For example, the time is long gone when only a few people were familiar with the unit " megahertz. " Although people are perhaps not entirely certain what a mega-hertz is, they are perfectly comfortable discussing and comparing the megahertz ratings of their computers. In a simila...

The GPU Enters Computing's Mainstream

Joining the Regulatory Fold

T hepolice profession hasmuch to gain by recognizing its kinship with a broad range of regulatory professions. Law-enforcement agencies, security and intelligence organizations, and social regulatory agencies all exist primarily to protect society from a variety of harms. Such harms include crime, pollution, occupational hazards, transportation hazards, corruption, discrimination, various forms...