Soviet science: Gorbachev demands more effort

Soviet Science

Ten years ago Dr. Belding brought out the first edition of this text and in the present volume follows the original plan of presenting "the protozoan, helminthic, and arthropod parasites of man, and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the diseases they produce." Although more material has been compressed into each page and thinner paper permits a convenient reduction in its thickness, t...

The phenomenon of Soviet science.

The grand "Soviet experiment" constituted an attempt to greatly accelerate and even shortcut the gradual course of historical development on the assumption of presumed knowledge of the general laws of history. This paper discusses the parts of that experiment that directly concerned scientific research and, in fact, anticipated or helped define important global changes in the functioning of sci...

Soviet-American cooperation in environmental health science.

Dynamic Bundling: Less Effort for More Solutions

Bundling of the values of variables in a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) as the search proceeds is an abstraction mechanism that yields a compact representation of the solution space. We have previously established that, in spite of the effort of recomputing the bundles, dynamic bundling is never less effective than static bundling and nonbundling search strategies. Objections were raised...

Why Has Work Effort Become More Intense?

Effort-biased technological change and other explanations for work intensification are investigated. It is hypothesised that technological and organizational changes are one important source of work intensification and supportive evidence is found using establishment data for Britain in the 1990s. Work intensification has also been stimulated by the use of highcommitment human resource policies...