The Patchwork Mandate

The Patchwork Mandate

One Australian university (Queensland University of Technology) that mandates deposit of its publications is leading the world in collecting 70% of its annual research output and the fraction is rising. This level of success is surprising, since the researcher's world is hemmed in with requirements to teach, to ask for student evaluations, to write and mark examinations, to supervise Ph.D. stud...

Graphene patchwork.

Graphene oxide (GO) holds tremendous potential for large-area electronics, high strength and conducting fillers in composites, and high-surface-area electrodes for energy storage. Graphene oxide for such applications will require manufacturing methods that are industrially compatible but also preserve its unique properties. Recent work by Korkut et al. describes a promising new scheme for conti...

Science fraud: from patchwork mouse to patchwork data.

Patchwork Terrains

We present a radically new method for the management, multi-resolution representation and rendering of large terrain databases. Our method has two main benefits: it provides a Ck representation of terrain, with k depending on the type of base patches; and it supports efficient updates of the database as new data come in. We assume terrain data to come as a collection of regularly sampled overla...

The patchwork: Health reform, American style.

0277-9536/$ e see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.10.016 American health care rightly has been characterized as a “paradox of excess and deprivation” (Enthoven & Kronick, 1989, p. 29). The United States spends more on medical care than any country in the worlddover $2.5 trillion or 17% of its gross domestic product as of 2009. At the same time, the U.S. is the only ...