Safety concerns, yes – but also a crisis of confidence

A crisis of confidence.

STEM crisis or STEM surplus? Yes and yes.

The last decade has seen considerable concern regarding a shortage of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers to meet the demands of the labor market. At the same time, many experts have presented evidence of a STEM worker surplus. A comprehensive literature review, in conjunction with employment statistics, newspaper articles, and our own interviews with company recrui...

Small is Beautiful! Yes, But Also for Pixels of Digital Still Cameras?

In the rat race forever higher pixel counts for the digital still market, it is clear that if the chip size has to remain constant, then “more pixels” inherently means “smaller pixels”. The main driving force to keep the silicon area of the sensor as small as possible is the cost price of the sensor chip. Extra silicon costs quite a bit of money. A larger chip size also requires a larger and mo...

Suicide in adolescence: attempt to cure a crisis, but also the fatal outcome of certain pathologies.

BACKGROUND Teen suicide is an alarming public health issue. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the reasons behind attempting/committing suicide. Our research focuses on adolescent psychopathology and on pathologies that are considered as adolescent suicide risk factors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We conducted literature-based research. The first part of this research was based on ado...

Crisis of Confidence: Banks as a Source of Liquidity in a Financial Crisis