Politics impacting on practice

Measuring impact and impacting practice

L es revues médicales existent pour avoir un impact. Apparemment axiomatique, le concept selon lequel les travaux publiés ont un impact sur les patients, les processus, le développement des médicaments et des disposi-tifs et une myriade d'autres facteurs pertinents est au coeur des activités des revues scientifiques. Cependant, comme il fallait s'y attendre, il est complexe de définir et de mes...

ScienceHumanities: Theory, Politics, Practice

Practice, politics, and possibilities.

Is general practice in trouble? The discipline of general practice has developed at a truly remarkable pace in the 56 years since the Foundation of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Humour me while I pretend that there is a single aggregated measure of the success of a discipline. And humour me even further while I plot this measure against time, starting in the early part of t...

Research Impacting the Practice of Congestion Control

Many algorithms proposed in networking research papers are widely used in many areas, including Congestion Control, Routing, Traffic Engineering, and Load Balancing. In this paper, we present algorithmic advancements that have impacted the practice of Congestion Control (CC) in datacenters and the Internet. Where possible, we also describe negative examples, ideas that looked promising on paper...

History, politics, and practice in knowledge construction

perceptions of Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory – from scarce knowledge of it, to seeing it as one among many accounts of social factors in child development, and eventually, to a wide acknowledgment that this theory provides a unique perspective on human development and implicates profound changes in many fields of psychology and education. As this approach is rapidly gaining in popularit...