Twenty-First Century Military Multilateralism: “Messy” and With Unintended Consequences

Twenty-first century vaccines.

In the twentieth century, vaccination has been possibly the greatest revolution in health. Together with hygiene and antibiotics, vaccination led to the elimination of many childhood infectious diseases and contributed to the increase in disability-free life expectancy that in Western societies rose from 50 to 78-85 years (Crimmins, E. M. & Finch, C. E. 2006 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 498-5...

Twenty-First Century Assurance

Every aspect of the accounting profession is being pervasively affected by advances in information technology (IT). IT shifts power from producers (such as accountants and auditors) to consumers (such as investors, creditors, and other information users). Present and potential users of accounting and auditing services have increasing needs for relevant, reliable, and timely information, and IT ...

Twenty-First Century Piano

“The reinvigoration of the role of the human body” as John Richards recently described trends in using homemade electronics to move away from laptop performance [1] is mirrored in an ambition of instrumentalists to interact more closely with the electronic sounds they are helping to create. For these players, there has often been a one-way street of the ‘instrument feeds MAX patch’ paradigm and...

Twenty-First Century Management Systems for Twenty-First Century Zoo Exhibits

This paper suggests the need for more integration between design and management, and surveys a series of such systems already at work in American zoos and aquariums. Several of these establishments take an entrepreneurial and team approach to all elements of institutional management. This trend may blossom into the next major evolutionary step in the future of American zoos and aquariums. As we...

Technology and Command: Implications for Military Operations in the Twenty-first Century