The run up to the year-end was marked by World Biomaterials Congress (WBC), with what has now become a typically virtual affair. Covering broad range of topics from material modifications clinical applications, international forum facilitated presentation and discussion innovative new findings related biological interactions engineered systems. This article shares few my highlights congress whi...

The Edge represents a fresh approach to organizational design. It appears to be particularly appropriate in the context of modern military warfare, but also raises issues regarding comparative performance of alternate organizational designs. Building upon prior C2 research, we seek to understand the comparative performance of the Edge and all organizational forms, across 21 Century and all miss...

The recent excellentessayby Robic (2010) awakened an old concern of mine regarding whether “sequences,” be they protein or nucleic acid, have escaped the limits of their useful abstraction and acquired the status of a nonexistent physical reality. The original observation that formed the basis for this notion lies with the widespread belief that protein folding involves a change of dimensionali...

A group of 1st-graders who were administered a battery of reading tasks in a previous study were followed up as 11th graders. Ten years later, they were administered measures of exposure to print, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and general knowledge. First-grade reading ability was a strong predictor of all of the 11th-grade outcomes and remained so even when measures of cognitive ability w...