T he Internet is a wonderful research tool. With the click of a mouse, you can beam yourself into what seems an infinite number of important lectures by eminent thinkers around the world. Just such an opportunity awaits if you search for Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, berkeley. The results of such a search include a video of Professor Muller castigating...

According to the notes on the jacket "this book has developed out of the authors' long collaboration in conducting management courses on industrial psychology and human relations"; and where the authors are discussing their own experiences and ideas it has an authentic and satisfying ring. Their synthesis of theoretical insight and awareness of the practical realities of the day-to-day industri...

Growth of cloud computing as a concept continues to pose challenges on how to deliver agile, yet secure, IT services to enterprises. While the hype surrounding cloud computing may have peaked, the concept of “cloudwashing” (adding the term “cloud” to an existing service for marketing reasons) continues to cause confusion and inflated expectations with enterprise buyers. This fear, uncertainty a...

The pervasiveness of academic ability grouping, or streaming, as a means of organising students into instructional groups in New Zealand schools remains a dominant discourse, despite international and New Zealand research that casts doubt on the benefits of this practice. This article documents teachers’ views on the effects of an innovative form of streaming in one small South Island secondary...

background: the presence of donor leukocytes in recipients of organ allograft has been shown even several years after transplantation. however, it remains unclear whether this donor cell microchimerism plays an effective role in allograft acceptance or is simply a consequence of immunosuppressive conditions in recipients. objective: to study microchimerism in a group of kidney transplant recipi...

Falsification of a universal statement such as “all swans are white” requires verification of a particular statement such as “this swan is black.” Verification is an inductive process because it consists in examining one feature of the bird after another. The color of the feathers is not sufficient (the bird with black feathers could be a crow); many other features have to be compared. The iden...

Probability can be used to measure degree of belief in two ways: objectively and subjectively. The objective measure is a measure of the rational degree of belief in a proposition given a set of evidential propositions. The subjective measure is the measure of a particular subject’s dispositions to decide between options. In both measures, certainty is a degree of belief 1. I will show, however...