Lobsters: ocean icons in changing times

Changing times and Paradigms

Colleagues at a large public university I recently visited are doing some excellent research on first-year engineering students—what attracted them to engineering, how they view engineering as a curriculum and career, how they feel about their first-year courses (it isn’t pretty!), their confidence levels before and after those courses, and why the ones who drop out do so. I sat in on one of th...

Asia: Changing Times and Changing Problems

disease rates), and other important factors (e.g., broad changes in regulatory approaches, improvements in control technology) will influence the extent to which exposure to air pollution affects the health of the Asian population over the next several decades. Because the effects on air quality of recent, rapid development are clearly apparent in many of Asia's cities and industrial areas, gov...

Changing times, moving ahead!

In last one decade there have been further advancements in understanding various aspects of psychiatric disorders. Hence, it was thought that time has come to acknowledge the advances in Psychiatry to be translated into the practice of Psychiatry in India. With this thinking, I must place on record that during Hyderabad ANCIPS on January 11th, 2015, the Executive Council, under the leadership o...

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Highway Administration and Changing Times

As a part of the theme of this session, which is concerned with the role of highways in the national transportation scene, your program committee wanted to have discussed some of the administrative aspects of highway transportation. In particular, it desired that comment be made on the problem of “Maintaining Effective Highway Adminis­ tration.” This is, I assume, subject to interpretation. If ...