Packing quite a punch

Science with a punch

There are changes afoot in the way that US granting agencies, most notably the NIH, evaluate proposals. Change can be a good thing, and it is probably high time that the NIH reassessed how grants are evaluated. Frankly, I was becoming blasé about the entire granting process. It seemed that once I became inured to the low probability of funding, competition from the mega-labs, and the shift towa...

A punch drunk jockey?

The case is reported of a retired professional jockey with progressive memory loss. The concern is that he may be suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy or the "punch drunk syndrome".

A punch for Guthrie papers.

I quite fancy this: Quite as a degree modifier of verbs in written British English

This paper focuses on the readings of quite as a degree modifier of verbs in written English on the basis of the British National Corpus (BNC). The study explores the semantic constraints that govern the relationship between quite and the verbs it combines with in terms of their conceptualization, which reflects the presence or absence of boundaries, i.e. boundedness/ unboundedness. Two types o...

Digital Punch Cutting

Digital punch cutting is today’s font technology. There are three different methods available for getting alphabets into digital form : hand-digitizing, auto-tracing and direct design on a workstation screen. The advent of intelligent font scaling requires us to ensure the ‘optical’ quality of a font and also the ‘numerical’ quality of its data; this, in turn, means that new procedures have to ...