Post-development Possibilities: A Conversation

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Barriers and Possibilities

The burden of disease associated with problematic alcohol and drug use demands a strategic approach to workforce development as much as it does to other areas of policy development and implementation. However, health workforce development, and in particular health workforce planning, has had a checkered career internationally. Barriers to health workforce development have included a failure to ...

Growth and Functional Development in 6 to 10 Years Old Soccer Players: Constraints and Possibilities

Sport and more specifically football is an important asset in youth lives. It is widely considered that biological maturity influences physical performance. Relationships between body size and performance are partly confounded by age. In fact, age is positively associated to strength and motor performance, even when height and weight are controlled. Studies on young footballer have been start...

Post-Publication Peer Review: Opening Up Scientific Conversation

Conventional peer review: rights and wrongs Peer review is broken. We have all heard that phrase many times in recent years. It’s become a truism, a shorthand complaint about the status quo that rarely extends into a proposal for change. And even those who do not believe standard peer review is beyond repair acknowledge that there are problems; everyone can see the cracks. So what’s wrong? From...

Color Television Possibilities for the Post War Era

A quantum conversation.

Alice: The problem with that is the scaling to problems that are nontrivially large. If the number of molecules you need is exponential in the size of a problem (as it is for searching for the bits of an entry in an unordered list, like your database), then you’re going to need an awfully big test tube to get anywhere. After all, 10 molecules used this way can solve an exponential problem for j...