When Agile Harms Learning and Innovation: (and What Can Be Done About It)

Bullying in Schools: What Is It and What Can Be Done About It?

Molly Chamberlin ([email protected]) is an IEPC Research Associate for Indiana K-12 Education Policy. According to a recent study, nearly 30% of American youth reported involvement in bullying, with 13% reporting being the aggressor, 11% the victim, and 6% both bullies and victims. Although it is often dismissed as a part of growing up, bullying can have serious and long-lasting consequences...

The Objectization Problem - What It Is And What Can be Done About It

The packaging of both data and procedures into autonomous units is one of the key insights exploited in object-oriented programming. By projecting the system state space into independent object spaces and by limiting the effects of one object’s actions on another through an object’s methods, implementation changes in one object will not be visible to other objects. This clean delineation into o...

What is osteopenia, and what should be done about it?

Why aren’t depot antipsychotics prescribed more often and what can be done about it?

Long-acting depot antipsychotics were developed specifically to promote treatment adherence (compliance) and they are a valuable option for patients requiring maintenance medication for schizophrenia. Depot use has fallen in recent years, perhaps owing to the introduction of oral atypical antipsychotics. Psychiatrist and patient acceptance of depot medication is variable. The depot formulation ...

Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?

An analysis of the failure statistics of a commercially available fault-tolerant system shows that administration and software are the major contributors to failure. Various approaches to software fault-tolerance are then discussed -notably process-pairs, transactions and reliable storage. It is pointed out that faults in production software are often soft (transient) and that a transaction mec...