Twenty years' travel in Persia

Twenty Years in the Making

Department Editors Beyond Wires Yih-Farn Robin Chen • [email protected] Big Data Bites Jimmy Lin • [email protected] Developing World Kamal Bhattacharya • [email protected] Internet Governance Virgilio Almeida • [email protected] Internet of Things, People, and Processes Schahram Dustdar • [email protected] Linked Data Carole Goble • [email protected] Natural Web Interfaces Muni...

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Twenty years of technology.

In looking back at previous issues of RNA and my own eight RNA papers, what strikes me, in addition to all the great science that’s been published in our society journal over the past 20 years, is the evolution (or more properly, revolution!) in the methods and technologies we use. Equally striking has been the exponential increase in the amount of data in each published paper. In two decades, ...

Twenty years of marriages.

In 1994, a total of 159,959 marriages were performed in Canada, up only slightly from 159,316 the year before. This small increase had no effect on the crude marriage rate, which remained at 5.5 marriages per 1,000 population. Aside from a brief uptum in the late 1980s, Canada's marriage rate has fallen quite steadily since the early 1970s. The overall decline is also evident when rates are dis...

The Next Twenty Years

Much has changed in international finance in the twenty years since UNU-WIDER was founded. This paper identifies five broad contours of what we might expect in the next twenty years: the flow of capital from ageing societies to the more youthful economies of the South; the growth in the financial services industry in emerging economies and the consequences for their capital flows; the current s...