Forty two Paleocene benthic foraminiferal species of the Midway Formation in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas, USA were firstly investigated by Plummer (1927), and its paleogeographic distribution in some other countries in the Tethyan province were recorded: North America (USA, Mexico), South America (Argentina), Europe (North Sea Basin, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria), North Af...

Nimble Storage was founded in 2008 on the core belief that the storage industry would experience a major transformation over the next decade, driven by two fundamental catalysts: First, that flash technology would require a ground-up storage system redesign, rendering incumbent disk-centric storage architectures inefficient and ineffective. Second, that cloud-based management with granular real...

In 2007, the editorial home of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management will be leaving Asia for the first time—in fact leaving its founding school, the National University of Singapore (NUS), for the first time. Founded in 1983, APJM is the oldest and most prominent academic journal in the management field that is in Asia, on Asia, and of Asia. The move out of Asia is significant, because it una...

Policy Forum T he Chilean health system has been studied extensively [1]. Its current form is the result of a major reform undertaken by the Pinochet government following the coup d'état in 1973. Pinochet's reform established competition between public and private health insurers and promoted private health services, following neoliberal principles. Neoliberalism is an economic and political mo...

Cell division is a carefully orchestrated procedure. Bacterial cells have intricate mechanisms to ensure that genetic material is copied, proofread, and accurately partitioned into daughter cells. Partitioning now appears to also occur for some cytoplasmic proteins. Previously, using chromosomal fluorescent protein fusions, we demonstrated that a subset of Rhodobacter sphaeroides chemotaxis pro...