Tracheal surgery : past accomplishments and future challenges

Medicare at 40: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges

Horticultural Plant Breeding: Past Accomplishments, Future Directions

Genetic improvement of agronomic crops through breeding, which typically are marketed as commodities, are grower directed. Breeding objectives principally involve increasing yield, often based on resistance to biotic and non-biotic stress. For example improvement in hybrid maize yields have relied on increasing yield stability under high populations. In horticultural crops, breeding objectives ...

The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Community Reinvestment Act: Past Accomplishments and Future Regulatory Challenges

he U.S. Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in 1977 to encourage depository institutions to meet the credit needs of lower income neighborhoods. The CRA was built on the simple proposition that deposit-taking banking organizations have a special obligation to serve the credit needs of the communities in which they maintain branches. At the time of the CRA’s passage, banks and t...

Visual masking: past accomplishments, present status, future developments

Visual masking, throughout its history, has been used as an investigative tool in exploring the temporal dynamics of visual perception, beginning with retinal processes and ending in cortical processes concerned with the conscious registration of stimuli. However, visual masking also has been a phenomenon deemed worthy of study in its own right. Most of the recent uses of visual masking have fo...

Adaptive Graphical User Interfaces: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Future Directions

1. INTRODUCTION With the ever increasing ubiquity of computers, tablets, smart phones, and other digital devices, graphical user interfaces are reaching a wider audience than ever before. As this user population is highly variable in capabilities, experience, age, and other characteristics, personalization is essential to ensure everybody can interact with their device. User needs can also be a...