Biology today is at a crossroads. The molecular paradigm, which so successfully guided the discipline throughout most of the 20th century, is no longer a reliable guide. Its vision of biology now realized, the molecular paradigm has run its course. Biology, therefore, has a choice to make, between the comfortable path of continuing to follow molecular biology's lead or the more invigorating one...

The choice of using electric, hydraulic, or pneumatic motion systems is a fundamental decision that affects performance, costs, maintainability, safety, ease of use, f lexibility, and reliability. Each discipline clearly has areas where it excels enough to be the obvious choice. In others, the needs of the application and the capabilities of the technology must be carefully evaluated—and then b...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the motives and reasons of non-physical education graduates to continue their education in postgraduate physical education discipline. research method was descriptive. the statistical sample of the research consisted of physical education students of the universities in tehran who were studying in 2009-2010 educational disciplines. 136 subjects were ...

the main purpose of this article is to draw the map of the discipline of public administration. due to the heuristic nature of the research and also regarding the fact that the investigation is a uni-variable study, the research does not require any hypothesis. the main question of the present research is: ‘based on the scientific articles of “isi” covering the years 2000 to 2010, how feasible ...

This paper provides a concept analysis of respite care for frail older people and their family carers. The authors re-examine the broader conceptualization of respite care delineated by Nolan & Grant, namely, users' needs for information, education and support about respite care, based on a review of recent literature and on a user focus group study. This work was undertaken by the Sheffield ar...

abstract: introduction: abiding with ethical discipline in nursing leads to improving nursing services and promoting the patient’s health. due to the fact that patients are the most critical elements in health care organizations, this study was carried out with the aim of determine compliance with professional ethics and its relationship with associated demographic factors from the vantage poin...

Generalized Processor Sharing(GPS) is an idealized fluid discipline with a number of desirable properties. Its packetized version PGPS is considered to be a good choice as a packet scheduling discipline to guarantee Quality-of-Service in IP and ATM networks. The existing Connection Admission Control(CAC) frameworks for GPS result in a conservative resource allocation. We propose an Optimal CAC ...

BACKGROUND Since 1994, higher education policy has been committed to equity of access for all, irrespective of race and gender. OBJECTIVES We investigated progress towards these goals in the education of medical doctors, with an emphasis on gender. METHODS Databases from the Department of Education (DoE), Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and University of Cape Town (UCT) F...

BACKGROUND Cardiology is one of the most popular of the hospital medical specialties in the UK. It is also a highly competitive specialty in respect of the availability of higher specialty training posts. Our aims are to describe doctors' early intentions about seeking careers in cardiology, to report on when decisions about seeking a career in cardiology are made, to compare differences betwee...