Pharmaceutical Characterization meets Forensics Science: What Happened to Our Product?!

What has happened . to our water ?

This Study Guide is intended as an orientation to the four parts of the film WATER AND THE DREAM OF THE ENGINEERS. It presents the perspective of the film and offers general background material for teachers unfamiliar with .the subject. For further reading, a brief bibliography is provzded. At the end of the notes for each section is a set of study questions teachers might use with their studen...

What ever happened to accountability?

When leaders don't fire underperforming executives, they send a bad message to the whole organization. A case in point is the U.S. Army. "To study the change in the army across the two decades between World War II and Vietnam," Ricks writes, "is to learn how a culture of high standards and accountability can deteriorate." In this essay, adapted from his new book, The Generals: American Military...

What Happened to Software Metrics?

The software community of the 1980s was abuzz with seemingly endless approaches to producing higher-quality software. At the forefront was software metrics and its corresponding techniques, tools, and process-improvement schemes. Cyclomatic complexity, Halstead metrics, source lines of code (SLOC), Fagan inspection, defect counting, number of defects prediction, reliability estimation and model...

What Happened

Alcohol primarily interferes with the ability to form new long-term memories, leaving intact previously established long-term memories and the ability to keep new information active in memory for brief periods. As the amount of alcohol consumed increases, so does the magnitude of the memory impairments. Large amounts of alcohol, particularly if consumed rapidly, can produce partial (i.e., fragm...

What Happened to Home Economics ?