Papa Lyman Remembers- (Part of) The XX Century

A XXI-century alternative to XX-century peer review

The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante topdown PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficiency and effectiveness criteria. It then goes on to analyse the roles of Peer Review and how good the system is at fulfilling those roles. The paper then proposes an alternative system for evaluation o...

The heart remembers.

a ,b , d a a ,c * Michael R. Rosen , Ira S. Cohen , Peter Danilo Jr. , Susan F. Steinberg Department of Pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, US...

Episodes of Xx Century Cosmology: a Historical Approach

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Cosmological lessons from earlier centuries 3. From nebulae to galaxies 4. The emergence of the idea of expansion 5. The principal cosmological models of the first half of the century 6. The discovery of background radiation and some implications 7. The COBE results and the analysis of the fluctuations 8. Changes in the epistemological status of cosmological research...

Part XX . Effects of Particles on Cells TRANSDUCTION AND TRANSFORMATION

A perspective on the development of genetics in Spain during the XX century.

At the beginning of the XXI Century, Spanish Biology lives a period of unprecedented growth and development. This situation owes much to the stability of the last few years and breaks a pattern in which Science was the activity of a few self-taught individuals working within an indifferent environment. The development of Genetics is a good example of these factors. A long isolated period dating...