Nature's Protest against Change

Assessment change sparks protest

research councils and other funding agencies around the world, it has in recent years made headlines by investing record sums in infrastructure projects. In the Joint Infrastructure Fund, the grants given by the trust in partnership with the UK government and its research councils are often used as a lever to make government money available. For instance, the trust might approach the government...

Spanish Protest against Proposed Nuclear Waste Storage

Siting the nuclear cemetery in Zarra would compromise the safety of the Valencians, said Juan Cotino, third vicepresident of Valencia's regional government earlier, in a reversal of the initially mild opposition to the ATC. Zarra could not satisfy the safety requirements for such a sensitive installation, he says. Most of the subsoil in the area ia a combination of clay and loam and could be ge...

The Natures of Nonconfigurationality

Population, development, and human natures

At the dawn of this new millennium, the human enterprise is quickly becoming a globally unified one. Yet numerous obstacles and pitfalls remain in the path of a full and fair unification. A substantial fraction of the world’s population is well-off and increasingly connected through trade and communications systems. But an even larger fraction is struggling to make ends meet and is only sketchi...

Natures and Perspectives

“Nature” and “Perspective” have similar meaning for Eclipse developers and for personnel in a software product line organization. The nature of product line work differs from one part of the organization to another. A developer using Eclipse switches among perspectives to have ready access to the specific tools needed for the nature of the current work such as testing, modeling, or plug-in deve...