Loose end

Loose end

old list of publications is just not good enough when looking for a job or applying for grants. Candidates' publications are now subjected to microscopic scrutiny but unfortunately not for their scientific content. What is looked for is with whom you write papers and where these are finally published. Today, God would never get a research grant. One member of the committee would deny it on the ...

Loose end: Molecular biology by numbers … one

eads lassical geneticists considered the C gene to be one indivisible unit of mutation, recombination and function. The picture was that of beads on string, with recombination taking place between the beads, and mutations creating altered bead states or alleles with different functions. How genes worked was a mystery, but the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis formulated by Beadle made the correct ...

Loose end: All the world's a lab … into a Director

Research Institute; I know this happened some time ago and I should have written then, but I now have so little to do that there doesn't seem to be much point in doing anything, even if I can remember to do it. No doubt you have already discovered that being the head of a large organization isn't all that it is cracked up to be, and that it is quite difficult to realize your plans. The problem ...

Loose Couplings

Loose Change

European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 379–381. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.40 In this issue of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), we have a Special Section on I.S. in Interorganizational Networks and four more Opinion papers. The papers in I.S. in Interorganizational Networks were edited by Diederik W. van Liere, Peter H.M. Vervest, Benn Konsynski and Chris Holland. Than...