منابع مشابه
Sustaining an Industry Obsession
September–October 2002 0740-7475/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE DEVICE SCALING has long been an accepted mantra, even an obsession, in the semiconductor industry, and if recent predictions are true, the march of deep-submicron (DSM) devices into the nanoscale era will continue. Process and device engineers will somehow find a way to overcome the looming technical challenges, just like they always have f...
متن کاملGenomic Imprinting: An Obsession with Depilatory Mice
Excessive grooming in mice has been promoted as a model of human obsessive-compulsive disorders. A recent paper adds Grb10 to the list of genes with effects on behavioral hair loss, with the added twist that this time the gene is imprinted.
متن کاملAcademia's obsession with quantity.
We live in the era of rankings. Universities are being ranked, journals are being ranked, and researchers are being ranked. In this era of rankings, the value of researchers is measured in the number of their papers published, the citations they received, and the volume of grant income earned. Academia today is governed by one simple rule: more is better. The idea to reward those who are produc...
متن کاملThe Mass Distribution of White Dwarfs: An Unwavering Obsession
We discuss some of our current knowledge of the mass distribution of DA and non-DA stars using various methods for measuring white dwarf masses including spectroscopic, trigonometric parallax, and gravitational redshift measurements, with a particular emphasis on the problems encountered at the low end of the cooling sequence where energy transport by convection becomes important. 1. An Unwaver...
متن کاملThe organization of innovation--the history of an obsession.
The Economist s mission statement, printed on the contents page in every issue, proudly proclaims that it has been leading the debate about progress since 1843, yet the January 12, 2013 issue struck an uncharacteristically pessimistic note on this core topic. The cover carried an illustration of Rodin s The Thinker perched on a new base—namely a toilet with a cistern. A thought bubble over The ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nexus Network Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1590-5896,1522-4600
DOI: 10.1007/s00004-006-0011-0