The grand challenges in biology today are being shaped by powerful high-throughput technologies that have revealed the genomes of many organisms, global expression patterns of genes, and detailed information about variation within populations. We are therefore able to ask, for the first time, fundamental questions about the evolution of genomes, the structure of genes and their regulation, and ...

Research has shown that warmth and competence are core dimensions on which perceivers judge others and that warmth has a primary role at various phases of impression formation. Three studies explored whether the two components of warmth (i.e., sociability and morality) have distinct roles in predicting the global impression of social groups. In Study 1 (N=105) and in Study 2 (N=112) participant...

In recent years, knowledge management systems (KMsystems) for handling organizational knowledge have been the subject of sizeable interest within the research fields of CSCW and IS. However, information technology (IT) for managing competence has been debated less extensively. This paper describes and evaluates the design of Competence Visualizer (CV), which is a KM-system generating competence...

As a consequence of rapid globalization, the need for a coherent system of global health law and governance has never been greater. This article explores the health hazards posed by contemporary globalization on human health and the consequent urgent need for global health law to facilitate effective multilateral cooperation in advancing the health of populations equitably. It sets forth the fi...

American agriculture has enjoyed momentous success over the past 50 years as measured by the quantity, quality, variety and cost of food and fiber. In the years proceeding World War II, the U.S. agricultural sector has experienced a significantly high rate of growth in productivity—a level more than three times the magnitude of the nonfarm industrial sector. Into this agricultural system with a...

Manufacturing industry has over the last decade become global and is operating in an integrated supply chain using e-work technology. In order to meet this challenge, education must reflect these changes and must become globally oriented. For this reason the IMS project “Global Education in Manufacturing” (GEM) has been launched. The main objective of GEM is to develop a new curriculum covering...

For the production in an e-business environment digitalisation of economy requires an excellent coordination in virtual customer-related organisations. The efficiency depends on the competence to integrate knowledge into processes. Therewith the value of products and production in an information age society is based on the value of knowledge. The effects of this development can be seen in innov...

although the hiv pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the middle east and north africa (mena) has a rapidly growing hiv problem. while generating hiv data has been consistently increasing since 2005, mena’s contribution to the global hiv literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. sever...

In this paper, we analyze important trends both in technology and in society in order to understand the new demands and challenges to the design profession. We conclude that, in order to respond to these challenges, there is a need for a new type of design research, as well as new ways of teaching design. We suggested that, in this context, “Designed Intelligence” and “Competence-based learning...

Research has shown that warmth and competence are core dimensions on which perceivers judge others and that warmth has a primary role at various phases of impression formation. Three studies explored whether the two components of warmth (i.e., sociability and morality) have distinct roles in predicting the global impression of social groups. In Study 1 (N= 105) and Study 2 (N= 112), participant...