Scholars and commentators have long argued that issue linkages provide a way to increase cooperation on global public goods by increasing participation in global institutions, building consensus, and deterring free-riding. ...

The <i>C. elegans</i> genome has been completely sequenced, and the developmental anatomy of this model organism is described at single-cell resolution. Here we utilize strategies that exploit this precisely defined ...

In the United States, the remuneration packages of top executives are characterized by a strong emphasis on pay-for-performance and by a highly lucrative "upside." There is much discussion of the possibility that executive ...

This thesis traces the history of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” story across three iterations and three decades of world development—the “Enders Game” novella (1977), the Ender’s Game novel (1985) and the subsequent ...

There is a large emphasis on intensive control of blood glucose in the ICU, but how accurate are the monitors we use to follow glucose? This episode reviews someof the limitations of deploying an instrument designed for ...

The heart must function properly to perform its essential role in supplying the body with the oxygen and nutrients required for survival. Over the course of a lifetime the heart will eventually be exposed to conditions of ...

Diabetes is characterized by excess levels of glucose and lipid in the blood, which have been proposed to directly and negatively impact islet β cells, exacerbating symptoms and promoting disease progression. Our understanding ...

Versatile model-based design demands languages and tools which are suitable for the cre- ation, manipulation, transformation, and composition of domain-specific modeling languages and domain models. The Meta Object Facility ...

After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese turned to Western models to modernize their government. Specifically, they hired former American Commissioner of Agriculture Horace Capron to advise the colonization of Hokkaido. ...