Limits to Sign

SLA: To Sign or Not to Sign

We present our experience of a three-week fieldwork in the form of a contextual inquiry with a service manager at the EPFL IT department. During these three weeks, we encounter a refusal of a user committee to sign a servicelevel agreement (SLA). We describe the context in which this refusal occurs, and we uncover our findings about the core of ITIL’s service-level management that building rela...

Limits to science or limits to epistemology?

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Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 2450•MHz electromagnetic field (EMF) (wireless internet frequency) on the growth and development of female Wistar rats. The study was conducted on three groups of rats. The prenatal and postnatal groups were exposed to EMF 1•h/day beginning from intrauterine and postnatal periods, respectively. The third group was the sham-expos...

Morphogen Gradients: Limits to Signaling or Limits to Measurement?

In Drosophila embryos, a concentration gradient of nuclear Dorsal protein controls pattern formation along the dorsal-ventral axis. Recent quantitative studies agree on the temporal dynamics of the gradient, but disagree on its spatial limits.

Generalized Covering Groups and Direct Limits