Basin modelling: how well have we done?

Basin modelling : how well have we done ?

Model developers have been highly successful in building usable, useful, and reliable one-dimensional models, and in convincing explorationists to use them. Development of convenient, universal software played an instrumental role in the acceptance of 1-D modelling. The remaining weaknesses in technology and training, while serious, can be resolved through a few years of intensive work in certa...

What have we done for you lately?

The acute pain service (APS): How we should have done it.

‘Doctors think they deal with pain well. That this is a delusionary idea is well documented but still not accepted by most physicians. Since beliefs are not subject to normal rules of scientific persuasion, simple explanation of the self-evident does not alter medical practice; only social pressure or consumer demand seem effective. The first has driven the development of terminal care and the ...

From Procedures to Objects: What Have We (Not) Done ?

Programming education has experienced a shift from imperative and procedural programming to object-orientation. This shift has been motivated by educators’ desire to please information technology industry and potential students; it is not motivated by psychology of programming nor by computer science education research—there are practically no results that would indicate that such a shift is de...

"What went well"? "What could have been done better"?

http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Evaluations of the processes involved in an intervention are similar to the way in which diagnoses and treatments are defined in clinical medicine. Diagnoses and interventions cannot be accomplished without knowing the physiology/pathophysiology of the organ system(s) involved. Therapy is directed at the pathophysiology. As noted in...