Industrial Crystallization: Fundamental Understanding for Challenges Ahead

Challenges Ahead for Supermarkets

The story of food distribution in the United States is a remarliable one. As a nation, we are blessed with abundant agricultural resources. We have a national agricultural policy that has emphasized efficiency (output per unit of input). And, perhaps most of all, we tend to believe that markets seive consumers best. This belief has helped produce an industry characterized by change. Over the pa...

Industrial Science Looks Ahead.

vances ever closer to the post-war horizon. With Victory will come the day when the scientific instruments and processes of war will turn abruptly to peace. Machines and tools, as well as industrial and economic thinking, will be converted quickly from the demands of war to the needs of peace. Industry will be called upon to relieve the strains of war with utmiost speed by ministering anew to h...

The Challenges Ahead

Middleware Challenges Ahead

24 Computer Middleware Challenges Ahead I n the first attempts to define comprehensive software platforms for distributed applications 25 years ago, researchers created basic middleware elements such as remote procedure call, file service, and directory service based on dramatic advances in hardware technology and fast networking and workstation systems. Today, the scope of middleware is broade...

Ten big challenges ahead

1. Can We Cure AIDS? This is an intense area of investigation at the current time with much focus on the activation of latently infected cells within reservoirs by such agents as histone deacetylase inhibitors. However, there is concern about some of these approaches due to considerations of possible long-term toxicities involving the activating agents as well as questions about whether it will...