Heat-powered cycles: are the process industries ‘missing the boat’?

Which industries are sensitive to business cycles?

An analysis of the 1994-2005 projections can be used to identify industries that are projected to move differently with business cycles in the future than in the past, and to identify the industries and occupations that are most prone to business cycle swings.

Arduino for Teaching Embedded Systems. Are Computer Scientists and Engineering Educators Missing the Boat?

In this work, we look at the Arduino as a design platform for a course on embedded systems and ask the question, is the Arduino platform suitable for teaching computer engineers and computer scientists an embedded system course with? To examine this question, we describe a project based learning embedded system course that we have taught and identify which topics are covered in it compared to t...

School daze: why are teachers and schools missing the boat on media?

Most American schools are 50 years behind in incorporating new technology into the classroom and using media wisely. Some experts estimate that 65% of today's grade-school students may end up doing jobs that have not even been invented yet. Abundant evidence now exists that children and teens learn preferentially from the media, yet the media are often frowned on as too distracting for students...

Systemic helter-skelter: are current child psychiatric services missing the boat?

Missing the boat on freshwater fish conservation in California

Theodore E. Grantham, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California ([email protected]) Kurt A. Fesenmyer, Trout Unlimited, Boise, Idaho ([email protected]) Ryan Peek, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California ([email protected]) Eric Holmes, Center for Watershed Sciences, Univers...