Understanding Dubious Future Problems

Automatically controlled continuous positive airway pressure. A bright past, a dubious future.

Prediction of future urban growth scenarios using SLEUTH model (Case study: Urmia city, Iran)

Rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. Rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. Urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...

The Future of Online Learning

Technology, they say, should not drive content. However, when technology is the bottleneck through which instruction must be delivered, then technology, if it does not drive content, most certainly limits content. Today, institutions offering online learning must live with the reality that instructional material must be delivered through narrow pipes to underpowered computers running dubious so...

Incidence of bacterial pathogens in equine uterine swabs, their antibiotic resistance patterns, and selected reproductive indices in English thoroughbred mares during the foal heat cycle

Fertility problems of mares on a well-managed breeding farm with thoroughbred stallions have been ascribed mostly to contamination of the reproductive apparatus of females with pathogens, particularly those of bacterial origin. This study presents a summary of the frequency of bacterial pathogens isolated from 437 cervical swabs which were collected from English thoroughbred mares intended for ...

Will There Be Any Neat Solutions to Small Problems in Cognitive Science?

The question is prompted by Eugene Charniak's (1978) recent editorial introducing the new 'Theoretical Notes' section. The idea of such a section is excellent, but I am dubious about one aspect of it. Charniak writes that one of its functions will indeed be to present neat solutions to small problems. He illustrates the idea with R. McGuire's observation of the difference in the acceptability o...