The Bologna Process: A Weary Leap Forward

The great leap forward

Similarly, the theory of genome duplication, which was first seriously developed in 1970 by the Japaneseborn geneticist Susumu Ohno (1970), also cannot properly explain the great phenotypic changes that have occurred during the 75 million years since the human and mouse lineages split. Duplications, either of chromosomal regions or of whole genomes, occur naturally, for example, through errors ...

Great leap forward

One of Europe’s rarest small mammals — the flying squirrel — has been given a boost to save it from extinction, sparing the Finnish government from legal action by the European Commission. The Finnish government has changed its law to protect the squirrels and paid out one million euros in compensation to about 400 farmers and landowners who have to curb normal activities for the squirrels’ saf...

"Asia Pacific Allergy": A new leap forward

" Asia Pacific Allergy " : A new leap forward Asia Pacific Allergy, the official j o u r n a l o f t h e A s i a Pa c i f i c Association of Allergy, Asthma, a n d C l i n i c a l I m m u n o l o g y (APAAACI), celebrated its takeoff in a launching ceremony on November 6, 2010—a historic day for the new journal. Its first edition was released on April 30, 2011. Over the years, APAAACI has made ...

Leap Forward Virtual Clock : A New Fair

We describe an eecient fair queuing scheme, Leap Forward Virtual Clock, that provides end-to-end delay bounds similar to WFQ, along with throughput fairness. Our scheme can be implemented with a worst-case time O(loglog N) per packet (inclusive of sorting costs), which improves upon all previously known schemes that guarantee delay and throughput fairness similar to WFQ. Interestingly, both the...

China's next great leap forward.