A Quarter Century of Disk File Innovation

A quarter of a century with Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine

ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM INSTITUTE OVER TIME: A QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF EXPERIENCE

Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute (EMRI) was established in 1993. EMRI has progressed step by step from the beginning and has reached maturity in the last 25 years. EMRI has expanded, advanced in human resources and infrastructures (laboratories and new technologies) and gained first rank in endocrine research in various fields. It has also worked with regional and international o...

A Quick Review of On-Disk Layout of Some Popular Disk File Systems

: Disk file systems are being researched since the inception of first magnetic disk in 1956 by IBM. As such, many good disk file system designs have been drafted and implemented. Every file system design addressed a problem at the time of its development and efficiently mitigated it. The augmented or new designs rectified the flaws in previous designs or provided a new concept in file system de...

ACHIEVEMENTS AND ADVANCES IN DIABETES RESEARCH OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY: A REVIEW OF THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE

Background: Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute (EMRI) is one of the largest research institutes in Iran, which has been established to develop research strategies and manage endocrine and metabolic diseases such as diabetes. The purpose of this report is to review and summarize research activities related to diabetes over a quarter of a century at EMRI. Methods: A comprehensive se...

The Rational View of Product Innovation: A Critical Investigation

This paper seeks to trace some of the roots and problems of the rational view of innovation. Concentrating primarily upon product innovation, we point out that the eighteenth century notion of social progress in the light of reason has gradually given an enormous impetus to a rational view of product innovation in modern organizations. We summarize several decades of research into management of...