Obama: From Promise to Power

Clean Energy Diplomacy from Bush to Obama

From promise to practice

The work by the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier in the late eigh­ teenth century on the law of conser­ vation of matter and the oxygen theory of combustion helped to ignite a ‘chemical revolution’ that shifted the field of chemis­ try from observational studies to synthesis applications. The improved understanding of chemical reactions and the increasing ability of chemists to synthesize compo...

Nanoparticles in wound healing; from hope to promise, from promise to routine.

Chronic non-healing wounds represent a growing problem due to their high morbidity and cost. Despite recent advances in wound healing, several systemic and local factors can disrupt the weighed physiologic healing process. This paper critically reviews and discusses the role of nanotechnology in promoting the wound healing process. Nanotechnology-based materials have physicochemical, optical an...

The Polypill: From Promise to Pragmatism

Mark Huffman asks what happened to the polypill to reduce cardiovascular risk, explores the promise it still holds, and considers how best to turn promise into reality.

From Pipedreams to Products, and Promise!

This demonstration provides a historical perspective of a number of research and commercial systems in Spoken Language Technology over the past 20+ years. A series of chronologically ordered video clips from many sources will be presented to illustrate the many steps and the tremendous progress that has been achieved over the years. The clips themselves are drawn from diverse academic and comme...