WARNER URGES BASIC CHANGES IN TRAINING CHEMISTS

Basic Training

Ang Cui, Angelos d. KeroMytis, And sAlvAtore J. stolfo Columbia University a whole. Yet skeptics (including some security professionals) argue that short-term expenditures on such “nonessential” items as analy sis should be curtailed, and that the results of any analyses should be kept secret. The return on investment in security isn’t visible in the short term, and, therefore, detractors feel ...

Predicting Basic Training Attrition

Given the considerable resources spent by military organizations on the training of new recruits, understanding the factors that lead to the successful completion of training is of utmost importance. A previous analysis of recruits who enrolled in the Canadian Forces (CF) between 2003 and 2005 emphasized the significance of good overall health (e.g., excellent self-rated health, minimal somatis...

Coordination Capacity Paul Warner

We develop elements of a theory of cooperation and coordination in networks. Rather than considering a communication network as a means of distributing information, or of reconstructing random processes at remote nodes, we ask what dependence can be established among the nodes given the communication constraints. Specifically, in a network with communication rates between the nodes, we ask what...

Gore Urges Action

Soft robotics for chemists.

In areas from assembly of machines to surgery, and from deactivation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to unmanned flight, robotics is an important and rapidly growing field of science and technology. It is currently dominated by robots having hard body plans—constructions largely of metal structural elements and conventional joints—and actuated by electrical motors, or pneumatic or hydrau...