radio station in Kalamazoo to begin broadcasting in stereo. Over the years, as the station’s popularity has grown so has their signal strength. From a meager 400 watts in 1951, today, WMUK broadcasts at 50,000 watts. Today, after 50 years, WMUK is a cornerstone of the Kalamazoo community. I am pleased to say that WMUK is now on the air 21 hours a day offering a wide variety of programming to su...

Root architectural traits are important for the selection of crops and cultivars that are most efficient in the acquisition of nutrients and water from soil. Increasingly laboratory-based methods are being used to screen large numbers of plants and to measure selected architectural traits. Our research with temperate cereals demonstrates that while such methods may allow numbers of root axes an...

We live in an incredibly fast-moving scientific world: what was valid yesterday is outdated today and perhaps long-forgotten tomorrow. The same applies to psychiatry. In the increasingly swift stream of psychiatric knowledge, one work stands out as a sheer immovable rock: Karl Jasper’s General Psychopathology. What other medical work can lay claim to be just as topical and valid today as it was...

As the number of processor cores available in Cray XT series computers has rapidly grown, users have increasingly encountered instances where an MPI code that has previously worked for years unexpectedly fails at high core counts (“at scale”) due to resource limitations being exceeded within the MPI implementation. Here, we examine several examples drawn from user experiences and discuss strate...

policy leaders and social scientists have grown increasingly concerned about a societal split between those with and those without access to computers and the Internet. The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration popularized a term for this situation in the mid-1990s: the “digital divide.” The phrase soon became used in an international context as well, to describe the s...

Association football is becoming increasingly competitive and the financial stakes involved are causing football clubs and football leagues to become more professional. Over the past 25 years, club budgets have grown enormously due to ticket sale revenues, broadcasting revenues, merchandising, and prize money. Recently, player tracking systems were introduced and are producing overwhelming amou...