On Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks.

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks Implementing Organizational Learning in an Asian National Police Force

Teaching new dogs old tricks

It is much too early to discuss even preliminary results from our experiment with re-review opt-out [1], and will be for some time, although we may report on interesting anomalies if there are enough of them. But in the meantime, Virginia Walbot, in this issue of Journal of Biology [2], has a practical suggestion on the complaint that stimulated us to embark on the experiment: namely, referees ...

Teaching an Old Course New Tricks: A Portable Courseware Language Based on XML

Can old dogs learn new tricks?

Many of these old adages can’t be traced back to their origins, but the reference to senior dogs and their learning capacity has a documented origin. The source of these well-worn words is an English gentleman named Fitzherbert who wrote a treatise on animal husbandry in 1523. In the cumbersome vernacular of the times, he said that “the dogge must lerne when he is a whelpe, or els it wyl not be...

Old dogs: new tricks, old tricks, or no tricks.

tively referred to as “old dogs.” In some instances, the designation may be a term of endearment: in others, a term of derision. Virtually every chairperson must face the dilemma of dealing with these senior staff members. His or her decision will be based primarily on how productive the senior radiologist is. I have had the unique opportunity to practice radiology over the past 27 years in bot...

Teaching a new dog old tricks: identifying quantitative trait loci using lessons from plants.

Locating quantitative trait loci (QTL) in mammalian systems has proven difficult due to the lack of genetic control and reproducibility, as well as the expense of maintaining sufficiently large populations for genotyping and phenotyping. In plants, populations of recombinant inbred lines (progeny bred to homozygosity from a single cross) do not have these problems. Methods developed to identify...