Ten Commandments of a Winning MDM PoC

Ten commandments of enzymology, amended.

Reflections on advances and retreats in biochemistry have, over the years, generated several maxims. The late Efraim Racker’s ‘don’t waste clean thinking on dirty enzymes’ has been one of the most durable. On the occasion of a lecture in Jerusalem a decade ago, I framed a list of the ten ‘best’ maxims as ‘commandments’, which were later published as a ‘Guest Commentary’ in the Journal of Bacter...

Ten commandments for motivating language learners: results of an empirical study

The question of how to motivate language learners has been a neglected area in L2 motivation research, and even the few available analyses lack an adequate research base. This article presents the results of an empirical survey aimed at obtaining classroom data on motivational strategies. Two hundred Hungarian teachers of English from various language teaching institutions were asked how import...

Designing green network architectures using the ten commandments for a mature ecosystem

The Climate Group notes that energy consumption by ICT activities represented 2 % of global human activity in 2009 [1]. ICT is therefore a sector contributing both to natural resource depletion and to greenhouse gas emission. Moreover, ICT generates considerable quantities of electronic waste, it emits radio waves (including GSM and WiFi) that can adversely affect human and animal health, and i...

Ten Commandments Ten Years On: An Assessment of Formal Methods Usage

The application of formal methods has been slower than hoped by many in the formal methods community. Over the last decade, there have been some advances and important developments. Despite this, formal methods remain a specialist area, but have an increasingly important niche in the development of critical systems, especially where safety and security are involved. In this paper we examine the...

The Network Commandments: Ten Ways to Improve Quality and Performance