The automation of the Utility Enterprise is changing; objects are in to stay. This paper examines how electric utilities will automate to meet the competitive market. Deregulation has not only reshaped the organizational structure, but it is also reshaping the implementation of automation. A Distribution Management System must now be viewed as part of a technical enterprise and must exchange da...

We are on the threshold of a truly revolutionary era of discovery—ranging from the origins of the universe to new states of matter and microscopic machines, from a new understanding of the oceans and of the biological connections across the earth's species to the functioning of the human brain and the origins of consciousness. This "golden age" of discovery, with frequent breakthroughs occurrin...

UV radiation targets the skin and is a primary cause of skin cancer (both melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer). Exposure to UV radiation also suppresses the immune response, and UV-induced immune suppression is a major risk factor for skin cancer induction. The efforts of dermatologists and cancer biologists to understand how UV radiation exposure suppresses the immune response and contributes...

John Sulston, who coordinated the UK side of the international publicly funded efforts to sequence ‘the’ human genome, once said the endeavour was like a moon shot. He may only have referred to the scale and ambition of the project, but one could argue that, in both cases, outdated technology and extraordinary amounts of money were used to hit a highly visible and prestigious target, just to sh...

Whereas today's spectacular technologic progress seems to strongly confirm the utility of underlying scientific activities, the modern state of fundamental science itself shows catastrophically accumulating degradation signs, including both knowledge content and organisation/practice [1-52]. That striking contradiction implies that we are close to a deeply rooted change in the whole system of h...

In an impressive review of the impact of molecular biology and genetics on medical thinking, Dr. Deryck Taverner makes the telling point that medicine, far from becoming more scientific in our day, is merely becoming more technological. He demonstrates the limitations of the concept of disease as an entity, and of the nonsense of dividing illness into the real and the imaginary: it is noteworth...