Managing Nature Reserves Using Ecological Disturbances Can Easily Go Wrong

Offshoring: What Can Go Wrong?

tens of thousands of miles from the home base—a client in the US offshoring IT work to a vendor in India or China, for example. Can it be done well? Offshoring has recently sustained much criticism, mainly over the issue of whether shipping IT work abroad is good for the US as a whole. I have written in that context as well, but my focus here is at the company level. Does it benefit a US firm t...

Managing Nature Reserves for Cranes in China

During the past 15 years, China has established more than 300 nature reserves. Many of the wetland reserves have been created primarily to protect endangered cranes. This paper summarizes the status of 22 nature reserves, 13 for breeding cranes and 9 for wintering cranes. The nature reserves have often been established in areas heavily populated or intensively used for economic purposes. Many r...

Radiation sterilization failures what can go wrong?

Murphy's law—if anything can go wrong, it will

The quality of bacteriophage electron microscopy appears to be on a downward course since the 1980s. This coincides with the introduction of digital electron microscopes and a general lowering of standards, possibly due to the disappearance of several world-class electron microscopists The most important problem seems to be poor contrast. Positive staining is frequently not recognized as an und...

What Can Go Wrong with Statistics: Typical Errors

The poster will summarize and illustrate the most typical errors that appear in the presentations of newcomers, but also in the newspapers and even in the research papers where the statistical results are discussed. Although every classification is inevitably a simplification of the real situation I have divided typical errors into six big groups for the sake of clarity: unsuitable method for a...