In this speculative look of design thinking through the lens Renaissance, author draws our attention to shocking similarity between transition in today's world and Industrial Era. comparison, he emphasizes similar role “arts Renaissance” concept Design Thinking. perspective, author's concern is not about discussing how Thinking process will be new era, but just speculating its as a tool such tr...

This paper addresses whether the initial declines in the manufacturing and real wages in transition economies were anything unexpected to justify policy reversal, and whether the “often-recommended” foreign aid would have helped them curb these declines in any significant way. It answers these questions with the help of a two-sector three-factor small open economy model and simulation exercises...

It has been shown, for non-Communist developed and developing countries, that earlier development of agriculture, a dense population, and a state-level polity is associated with a higher income and more rapid economic growth in the late 20 Century. We investigate whether this was also the case for countries under Communism and for the same countries in transition to a market economy. Our findin...

As semiconductor manufacturing entered into nanoscale era, performance degradation due to Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) became one of the major threats to circuits reliability. In this paper, we present a model and analysis of NBTI impact on circuit delays. First, we model NBTI impact on gate intrinsic delay and output transition delay. The insights of our models reveal that NBTI...

In an era where development processes seem best characterized by a continuing cycle of macroeconomic crisis and recovery, a critical question for students of the political economy of development concerns identification of the factors that facilitate recovery from economic shock. Recent work on this question has moved beyond a focus on specific macroeconomic policy adjustments toward analysis of...

“In the old era, it was almost unquestioningly accepted that science would improve the lives of American citizens and make us safe in the dangerous world of the Cold War, but those certainties have now disappeared,” Michels said of his reasons for applying for the APS Congressional Fellowship. “The present is an uncomfortable transition period where fundamental questions are being asked about t...

Having access to mild and operationally simple techniques for attaining carbohydrate targets will be necessary to facilitate advancement in biological, medicinal, and pharmacological research. Even with the abundance of elegant reports for generating glycosidic linkages, stereoselective construction of α- and β-oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates is by no means trivial. In an era where expande...

The transition from miasma to germ theory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century has been widely documented in narratives about the discovery of microbes, the evidence of contamination, or the procedures for sterilizations. This was a radical change in the history of understanding disease, treating and preventing it, and that shift marked a new era in medicine. However, it is import...

Database systems are very important in any HEP2 experiment in the world. HEP community in LHC3 era is in transition from FORTRAN to C++ and from data streams to persistent objects. Together with that a new data management will be necessary, which would allow transition from “files and tapes” approach towards the access to data in form of objects by selection of their required physics contents. ...

In the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic transformation known as the Industrial Revolution. While the typical reader may think of Dickensian mills when hearing of the Industrial Revolun the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic transformation known as the Industrial Revolution. It’s commonly believed that this era opened as new inventions improved...