In February 2004, TechWise Research published a paper entitled: Total Cost of Ownership for Entry-Level and Mid-Range Clusters. That paper showed that HP OpenVMS/AlphaServer clusters cost, on average, $248,000 less to manage over a three-year timeframe than IBM AIX/pSeries clusters. TechWise Research decided to conduct a follow-up study to probe specifically into the area of cluster management ...

Kristin P. Beals is a graduate student of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has begun a line of research to examine the association between stigma management and well-being. Her first paper discusses how decisions regarding disclosure affected the romantic relationships of gay men and lesbians. Her current studies are focusing on possible processes that may exp...

There are significant differences among species in their ability to adapt to captivity. Some species breed well in captivity and usually show no apparent signs of poor welfare, while other highly similar species sometimes live only a short time, breed little or not at all and often show abnormal behaviours. Marine mammals provide several examples of these differences. Thus, the life expectancy ...

In 450 years of existence, the written press has never faced a change with the intensity and consequences as those of the Internet. The decision of going online represents a whole set of opportunities and threats that publishers must carefully weigh. Once they have made the step, newspapers find themselves in a completely different competitive environment. They deal with different competitors, ...

Reversible changes in how readily animals fight can be explained in terms of adaptive responses to differences in the costs and benefits of fighting. In contrast, long-term differences in aggressiveness raise a number of questions, including why animals are consistent with respect to this trait, why aggressiveness is often linked to general risk taking, and why aggressive and nonaggressive anim...

the broader context of service provision, it is important that this does not race ahead of clear prescribing policies, underpinned by pharmocoeconomic considerations. We agree with the respondents that since buprenorphine is more expensive than methadone, the pharmocoeconomic aspects of prescribing need rigorous investigation. Whilst the studies they cite provide preliminary evidence of equipoi...

Comparison of newly available sequence data facilitates reconstruction of the gene inventory of the Urbilateria, the last common ancestor of flies, nematodes and humans. The most surprising outcome is that human genes seem to be closer to the bilaterian roots than previously assumed.