Teaching students aspiring to media work presents the educator with a fundamental dilemma. On one hand, require knowledge and skills necessary find sustain employment within existing industry practices, systems structures. other need be prepared for uncertain shifting nature of work, highly problematic aspects some those selfsame How do you ensure former without condoning or under-playing latte...

Any established or aspiring model organism must justify itself using two criteria: does the model organism offer experimental advantages not offered by competing systems? And will any discoveries made using the model be of wider relevance? This review addresses these issues for the social amoeba Dictyostelium and highlights some of the organisms more recent applications. These cover a remarkabl...

This is a must-have resource for biotech entrepreneurs and investors, as well as invaluable supplementary reading for students aspiring to a career in the industry. In particular, it illustrates the tensions between both sides based on their different backgrounds and expectations. The book outlines the various funding opportunities for the biotech industry in Europe and identifies ways for both...

In this paper we explore how platforms emerge and evolve due to independent actions by companies providing them or launching products on them. We use the software industry as the setting for our study. We analyze the pattern of evolution for Windows, Unix, and Linux over 14 years. Based on this, we derive some lessons for companies aspiring to compete in settings where platforms and complemento...

Emergency medicine is now proving a popular specialty in the United Kingdom. A recent report ranks emergency medicine second in specialties attracting the most applications for specialist registrar (SpR) interview. Numbered posts are becoming increasingly competitive as a result. This paper offers advice to aspiring emergency department SpRs. It identifies areas in which a curriculum vitae may ...