Spanish researchers reject xeno moratorium...

University Spin-off Creation by Spanish Researchers in Agricultural Engineering

This paper describes how a team of university professors and graduate students created a technology-based company (spin-off) to as a means to deliver their research findings to the agricultural sector. The spin-off company was based on the use of new methodologies, equipment, instrumentation and sensors initially developed for various research projects. Successful field tests and positive feedb...

Harmful moratorium on stem cell research.

Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol

Bill Crowther’s RFC No. 67 raised a much more fundamental issue than the question of marking. Any change to presently established protocol is going to involve changes in the hardware/software development efforts that have, in some instances, been going on for over 6 months. In the case of Multics, this effort has yielded programs either complete or in the advanced debugging stages. This is no d...

The H5N1 Moratorium Controversy and Debate

The pause in gain-of-function experiments involving highly pathogenic avian influenza virus to dissect mechanisms of mammalian transmission and virulence is a historic moment for science. The scientific community and the greater society that it serves are currently engaged in a vigorous debate on whether and how to carry out experiments that could provide essential information for preparedness ...

The Error-reject Tradeoff

We investigate the error versus reject tradeo for classi ers. Our analysis is motivated by the remarkable similarity in error-reject tradeo curves for widely di ering algorithms classifying handwritten characters. We present the data in a new scaled version that makes this universal character particularly evident. Based on Chow's theory of the error-reject tradeo and its underlying Bayesian ana...