One of the premier scientists of all time, Louis Pasteur, made an important statement for students and educators: "In the field of observations, chance favors only the prepared mind." Many well trained scientists have made discoveries while seeking other results or methods that their background learning and experience called to...
Chances are good that if you're a drug-industry scientist, you already know Derek Lowe's blog In the Pipeline, which often as not focuses on the complexities of chemical synthesis and research management. Even though he works at a lab bench, Lowe also has an excellent sense of what makes pharmaceutical...
The Department Of Agriculture Soil Scientist job description template includes the following job summary: To plan and conduct research on the chemical, physical, biological, and mineralogical composition of soils as they relate to land treatment management and to plant or crop growth. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional...
The nation's health, wealth, and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets processes and organizations across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures. The paper depicts that issues in critical infrastructure protection include how to integrate cyber...
If one goes to hire top scientists, he needs to understand them what books are on their shelves, what they listen to on the radio, who confesses to sometimes stealing a peek at the desktop clutter of scientists as part of his research. This case study of Chiron Corporation, a...
Hard work; defining physical work performance requirements. Sharkey, Brian J. and Paul O. Davis. Human Kinetics Pub. 2008 237 pages $64.00 Hardcover RC963 This resource focuses on physically demanding occupations that require strength and...
Microcosm: E. coil and the New Science of Life Carl Zimmer [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When science writer Zimmer looks into a petri dish teeming with E. coli, he sees himself, humanity and all life. In Microcosm, Zimmer traces the lessons biologists have learned from the...
Picture Post Watch and learn, son, watch and learn. Is that what this adult orang-utan has told the youngster that dangles from the branches on the top left of the picture? Learning by example, as scientists have long known, is one of the many human-like skills that...
Air is a big tease. Nothing against oxygen, of course, but air is 78 percent nitrogen. Nitrogen is often the deal-breaker for life on Earth, the nutrient that sets the limit for how much of what grows where. Yet even a bonanza of airborne nitrogen passing through lung or leaf...
An ambitious expedition led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, to a chain of little-known islands in the central Pacific Ocean has yielded an unprecedented wealth of information about coral reefs and threats from human activities. The exploration of four atolls...
Resources for healthcare research--both human and monetary--are finite. Competition for these resources is fierce. Bench scientists compete with clinicians; trials of potentially therapeutic drugs, surgical treatments, or genetic and immune modulation compete with outcomes trials; evidence-based protocols compete with everyone and everything else. How then,...
Stories of modern technology failures and cognitive engineering successes. Cooke, Nancy J. and Frank Durso. CRC Press 2008 123 pages $35.36 Paperback TJ153 In this behind-the-scenes look at human-technical interface problem-solving in cognitive systems...
Ecology of weeds and invasive plants; relationship to agriculture and natural resource management, 3d ed. Radosevich, Steven R. et al. Wiley-Interscience 2007 454 pages $75.00 Hardcover SB611 "Weeds are now at the forefront of...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83722) has announced the addition of Bioceramics and Their Clinical Applications to their offering. - provides an authoritative review of this highly active area of research - discusses issues of significance to a range of bioceramics such as their structure,...
Competing claims in work and family life. Ed. by Tanja van der Lippe and Pascale Peters. Edward Elgar Publishing 2007 278 pages $110.00 Hardcover HD4904 As "time poverty" spreads in the globalized economy, the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I am a Korean living here with my wife and our child who are also Korean since September 2004. I worked first as a senior scientist with an L-permit, and have since been a project manager with a B-permit. The current...
Employers are also gearing up for a fight over a new OSHA rule. The Occupational Safety and Health Admin. is expected to propose changes in exposure limits to diacetyl, a butter-flavor chemical additive tied to a rare but sometimes fatal lung disease known as "popcorn lung." ...
A feisty breed of terrier could stop scientists from barking up the wrong tree as they research a deadly lung disease in humans. a death toll equivalent to that of breast cancer. A fatal condition that looks remarkably like IPF also strikes the diminutive West Highland White terrier ("Westie"), however....
The incidence of poverty worldwide is a major concern for social scientists and lay people and a challenge for governments and policy makers. It is estimated that 3 billion people--half of the world's population-are poor. The situation is particularly critical in developing countries where the majority of the poor live....
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Harriette Johnson, Media Relations Manager of TheHeartland Institute, +1-312-377-4000, hjohnson@heartland.org Proposals based on flawed science and economics CHICAGO, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An open letter to theUnited Nations Secretary-General, issued during the recentlyconcluded climate change conference in Bali, characterizes attemptsto prevent global climate change as...
