Now the Hard Work Begins

Modernising medical careers; the really hard work now begins.

After the search is over ... the work begins

I am a musician who became interested in using computers in the mid-1980s in the hope that they might help me with the musicological work that was beginning to occupy more and more of my time. I am still waiting ... Even though much research work has been done on the low-level feature-extraction and matching tasks of music information retrieval (MIR), relatively little effort goes into matching...

Legacy, Leisure and the ‘Work Hard – Play Hard’ Hypothesis

Do people who work hard also tend to play hard? We tested this hypothesis using an online questionnaire-based study of a large volunteer sample of university undergraduate students. Participants responded to questions designed to detect variation in attraction to accomplishment/fame (or ‘work’) and attraction to leisure (or ‘play’). Additional questions were asked, for use in posthoc explorator...

Work Hard, Play Hard - A Work Ethic Forged in the Group Oppolzer.

The author gives an account of his work as post-doc at the University of Geneva in the group of W. Oppolzer, putting emphasis on scientific rigour and ingenuity.

Metabolic consequences of hard work.

When an animal has to meet increased demands on its working capacity, for example, for thermoregulation or parental care, two strategies are available. The animal can reallocate energy from costly maintenance processes - such as immunological defence or DNA repair systems (compensation hypothesis) - or it may try to increase the rate of energy intake or efficiency of digestion by increasing the...