Monodisperse macromolecules – A stepping stone to understanding industrial polymers

A Stepping Stone to Pluripotency

Somatic cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells via either expression of transcription factors or addition of small molecule chemicals only. Zhao et al. reveal a unique intermediate state during chemical reprogramming allowing a significant improvement in its efficiency and kinetics.

Information Extraction as a Stepping Stone toward Story Understanding

Historically, story understanding systems have depended on a great deal of hand-crafted knowledge. Natural language understanding systems that use conceptual knowledge structures [Schank and Abelson, 1977; Cullingford, 1978; Wilensky, 1978; Carbonell, 1979; Lehnert, 1981; Kolodner, 1983] typically rely on enormous amounts of manual knowledge engineering. While much of the work on conceptual kno...

Imitation as a Stepping Stone to Innovation

By creating a knowledge base that reduces innovation costs, imitation can serve as a stepping stone enabling …rms from lagging countries to undertake innovation. This paper constructs a product cycle model with this feature to determine what forces could cause a lagging country to shift R&D from imitation toward innovation. Increasing resources or subsidizing R&D in the lagging South increases ...

Stepping Stone Detection Analysis

Information Systems And Employment: From Idealization To Understanding As Stepping Stone To Action

Digitization and its effect on employment has been discussed within the discipline of Information Systems (IS) for a long time. The net effect of digitization on job creation and job loss has never been clear. However, it seems obvious that today's IS and the accompanying digitization of data and processes may destroy jobs among knowledge workers just as automation replaced the need for manufac...