Considering all invited speakers (including declined invitations), 23% were women. This was lower than the baseline sex ratios of early-mid career stage scientists, but was similar to senior scientists and authors that have published in high-impact journals.
Speakers are invited to give a talk if they are prominent in their field, i.e., senior and/or published in high impact journals. What about the rest of the participants?
it is encouraging that the overall sex ratio of scientists presenting their work at the 2011 ESEB congress was nearly equal. Moreover, there was no strong deviation from this overall sex ratio compared to presenters of both poster categories and regular talks.
Perhaps a solution would be for organizations that promote women in science through grants and awards to increase the portions set aside for travel expenses?
fluorescent dyes are great, but they would also alert the criminals that they need to wash up. (blacklight flashlights cost less than $10 these days). DNA is great, but easily destroyed by 5% bleach. So long as the criminals throw away or bleach everything they brought with them (including themselves and the loot) this system is beatable.
I think the police would ban the use of thiols at crime scenes after their first investigation. "You want me to go IN THERE and bag evidence? Fuck that, I'm on sick leave as of 10 minutes ago". "You want me to put THAT GUY in our cruiser? We'll be smelling that for weeks! We'll smell like that for weeks!"
Those chemicals are really difficult to get rid of without peroxide or chlorine bleach. I used to work with them, a few microliters at a time in chemical hoods with great ventilation, and the odor would still get in your hair and clothes.
-A phone's serial number has to be embedded such that it can't be changed in any cost-effective way.
-A network needs to be able to unambiguously identify a phone's serial number in a way that the phone's software/firmware can't block or alter.
-A network needs to be able to send a kill message in a way that the phone's software/firmware can't block or alter.
Basically the kill functionality will need access to the radio that is independent from the rest of the phone. Both the firmware and the OS can be hacked: if Samsung can update the firmware in its phones so can hackers.
On a related note: Canada threw out the patent for Pfizer's Viagra for this type of reason (U.S.C. 112 down here in the US). Pfizer didn't actually identify sildenafil in their patent, they just gave a set of chemical formulas with some of the positions as variables, and then a list of functional moieties (methyl, ethyl, butyl, futile) that can be placed at each position. Each formula thus covered millions or more actual compounds - which is standard operating procedure for patents of small molecule drugs. But most small molecule frug patents also have a claim that identifies the actual molecule specifically. Chemical patents also have to disclose the "best method" (some arguments there - lets call it a "reasonably good" method) of making the drug.
For a software patent on an actual product to survive the same level of scrutiny, it would have to disclose both the source code and the techniques/APIs necessary for people skilled in the art to to write it, compile it, etc.
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Maybe it is lost in translation, but I think they would have to rule out mechanical and electro-mechanical computers from eligibility as the component. If they don't, everyone would claim their spreadsheet program is replacing a spreadsheet run on a Babbage machine. Might spur development of some pretty cool Colossus type computers though - that way the patent writers could point to an existing electro mechanical component.
I'm not sure how different the loss of biomass is between MPB and EAB, but I can say I've never seen ash forests tens of thousands of acres in size be completely devastated where tree mortality is clearly over 90%.
With MPB, you have a much larger (and concentrated) loss of biomass while at the same time it is occurring in less densely populated (human-wise) geographies.
I think pine trees might actually be a net source of particulates as far as air pollution goes. They emit a lot of terpenes, which get turned into particulates in sunlight.
How about Elm trees? There are plenty of neighborhoods in the midwest that lost 90%+ of their elms due to Dutch Elm disease. The house where I grew up lost 4 out of 5 in as many years, each easily 50 feet wide at the crown.
He doesn't seem to be planning to: "I do not expect to see home again".
One plus of outing himself in Hong Kong is that if he suddenly gets disappeared or extradited, it makes China look like U.S. puppets, which they bristle at.
The pessimist in me says that China might disappear him, blame it on the US, and then "question him". One thing I don't think they'll let him do is meet with whoever he wants, travel wherever he wants, etc. He's useful for embarrassing the US for the moment, but they'll either deport him or put him under something like house arrest pretty soon.
I'd still need MS Office for each time it turns out a feature of a spreadsheet/document/macro that I have to work with isn't compatible with LibreOffice.
The alternatives work well for one person, but things tend to fall apart when collaborators use different programs.
How exactly does one distinguish between HTTP traffic of social media or messaging protocols and "allowed" traffic if those protocols may change or new ones can be invented at any minute?
By charging extra? I'm sure Verizon could be cajoled into adding a monthly "driver denial update fee" on all of its subscriptions.
The law won't apply to vehicles driven by a licensed chauffeur, if it's the passenger using the phone.
To avoid the wrath of politicians the system will have to let them use their device while an aide (not a chauffeur) drives them around. And the car companies are completely screwed if the system interferes with lawyers billing hours during their hourlong commute.
When you join the class, you are agreeing to the lawyers' negotiated settlement.
It's the class's negotiated settlement, not the lawyers'. The suit is started by the lead plaintiffs, who hire the lawyers. It is the lead plaintiffs that agree to any negotiated settlement, not the lawyers. The whole point of the action is to satisfy the interest of the class, not the lawyers. I realize that these principles are often abused, but those are the principles nonetheless. Lawyers who get too careless with them get jail time: just ask Bill Lerach.
The primary point of a class action lawsuit isn't to "fight for the little guy," it is to punish companies that do wrong. If lawyers end up making $2 billion off a lawsuit, well, that's $2 billion out of the company's coffers.
No.
Punitive damages do that. Compensatory damages are intended to make the plaintiffs "whole". The jury or judge will make it clear which damages are intended to do what. Remember, class actions aren't just for pizzas, they're also for injuries and death caused by negligence.
Either way, I think there should be parity in awards to the attorneys and the plaintiffs in a class action suit, both in time and monetary value. If the class is paid in coupons, the attorneys are paid in coupons.
The attorneys are free to sell the coupons for cash.
If the plaintiffs are paid cash over a period of time - say a trust has been established that pays medical bills- the attorneys should be paid incrementally as the trust is used up. The attorneys certainly have the option to sell that revenue stream for an immediate payment - they'll probably get 50-70 cents on the dollar.
The point is that class action attorneys should have their interests tightly aligned with those of the class, otherwise they will cut deals that benefit only themselves. The best and simplest way to do that is to reward them as a percentage of the net present value of the market value (not face value) of the plaintiff's share of the award.
CPUs: The low price AMD units win the performance/purchase price competition. Low price Intel units win the performance/(purchase + operating costs) competition, at least they do if your computer is on very much and you pay for your own electricity.
Boats have been built with a wind turbine connected to an underwater prop; they can sail directly upwind. There's a lot more drag involved than with a cart, so I don't know if one has been built that can sail directly downwind FTTW.
Per kwh, your average coal fired powerplant is probably in China burning high sulfur coal, so I'm not sure about it polluting less than the average Camry. On the bright side, while those Chinese powerplants pollute quite a lot the excess sulfur means more smog, clouds, and particulates, which sucks for China but actually decreases global warming (for now).
Granted, Teslas won't be charging up on power generated in China, but their Panasonic batteries (and many if not most car parts) are made there.
So long as solar panels are silicon based it's going to be hard to compete with third world countries wherever they are located. Purifying silicon and manufacturing photovoltaic cells generates a lot of pretty nasty waste. The US and the EU have quite a bit to say about how you dispose of it and whether or not you have keep it separate from your workers. I have no idea how Mexico will stack up in that regard, but hopefully better than China.
Unfortunately same goes for India, at least when it comes to pharmaceuticals. Ranbaxy (a generic drug manufacturer) just received a $500M fine from the FDA for basically faking all of their QC paperwork (ISO and GMP) and FDA applications for all of their products. The FDA did on-site inspections but they were always announced months in advance so Ranbaxy had plenty of time to prepare. They copied and faked bioequivalence and QC documents and submitted them to the US, EU, South American countries, South Africa... They only got caught because whistleblowers (who previously worked for US pharma companies) spent months begging the FDA to investigate.
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Considering all invited speakers (including declined invitations), 23% were women. This was lower than the baseline sex ratios of early-mid career stage scientists, but was similar to senior scientists and authors that have published in high-impact journals.
Speakers are invited to give a talk if they are prominent in their field, i.e., senior and/or published in high impact journals. What about the rest of the participants?
it is encouraging that the overall sex ratio of scientists presenting their work at the 2011 ESEB congress was nearly equal. Moreover, there was no strong deviation from this overall sex ratio compared to presenters of both poster categories and regular talks.
Perhaps a solution would be for organizations that promote women in science through grants and awards to increase the portions set aside for travel expenses?
I think the police would ban the use of thiols at crime scenes after their first investigation. "You want me to go IN THERE and bag evidence? Fuck that, I'm on sick leave as of 10 minutes ago". "You want me to put THAT GUY in our cruiser? We'll be smelling that for weeks! We'll smell like that for weeks!"
Those chemicals are really difficult to get rid of without peroxide or chlorine bleach. I used to work with them, a few microliters at a time in chemical hoods with great ventilation, and the odor would still get in your hair and clothes.
For a kill switch to work:
-A phone's serial number has to be embedded such that it can't be changed in any cost-effective way.
-A network needs to be able to unambiguously identify a phone's serial number in a way that the phone's software/firmware can't block or alter.
-A network needs to be able to send a kill message in a way that the phone's software/firmware can't block or alter.
Basically the kill functionality will need access to the radio that is independent from the rest of the phone. Both the firmware and the OS can be hacked: if Samsung can update the firmware in its phones so can hackers.
intel chips tend to be slightly faster, but much more expensive.
That depends on whether you pay your own electric bill. If the machine is turned on much of the time operating costs come into play.
On a related note: Canada threw out the patent for Pfizer's Viagra for this type of reason (U.S.C. 112 down here in the US). Pfizer didn't actually identify sildenafil in their patent, they just gave a set of chemical formulas with some of the positions as variables, and then a list of functional moieties (methyl, ethyl, butyl, futile) that can be placed at each position. Each formula thus covered millions or more actual compounds - which is standard operating procedure for patents of small molecule drugs. But most small molecule frug patents also have a claim that identifies the actual molecule specifically. Chemical patents also have to disclose the "best method" (some arguments there - lets call it a "reasonably good" method) of making the drug. For a software patent on an actual product to survive the same level of scrutiny, it would have to disclose both the source code and the techniques/APIs necessary for people skilled in the art to to write it, compile it, etc.
4. to restrict patent law protection to software supportable teachings in which the co mputer program serves merely as a replaceable equivalent for a mechanical or electro - mechanical component, as is the case, for instance, when software - based washing machine controls can replace an electro - mechanical program control unit consisting of revol ving cylinders which activate the control circuits for the specific steps of the wash cycle;
Maybe it is lost in translation, but I think they would have to rule out mechanical and electro-mechanical computers from eligibility as the component. If they don't, everyone would claim their spreadsheet program is replacing a spreadsheet run on a Babbage machine. Might spur development of some pretty cool Colossus type computers though - that way the patent writers could point to an existing electro mechanical component.
I'm not sure how different the loss of biomass is between MPB and EAB, but I can say I've never seen ash forests tens of thousands of acres in size be completely devastated where tree mortality is clearly over 90%.
With MPB, you have a much larger (and concentrated) loss of biomass while at the same time it is occurring in less densely populated (human-wise) geographies.
I think pine trees might actually be a net source of particulates as far as air pollution goes. They emit a lot of terpenes, which get turned into particulates in sunlight. How about Elm trees? There are plenty of neighborhoods in the midwest that lost 90%+ of their elms due to Dutch Elm disease. The house where I grew up lost 4 out of 5 in as many years, each easily 50 feet wide at the crown.
But that doesn't mean the trees are what's making people healthy... it could just be that the absence of pollution is.
I agree they needed better matching controls in the study, but one thing trees do in urban environments is help remove air pollution.
and posting your indignant observation, please check and see if they did.
He doesn't seem to be planning to: "I do not expect to see home again".
One plus of outing himself in Hong Kong is that if he suddenly gets disappeared or extradited, it makes China look like U.S. puppets, which they bristle at.
The pessimist in me says that China might disappear him, blame it on the US, and then "question him". One thing I don't think they'll let him do is meet with whoever he wants, travel wherever he wants, etc. He's useful for embarrassing the US for the moment, but they'll either deport him or put him under something like house arrest pretty soon.
This man may well be our Jesus. The government is going to crucify him in their fury.
Except, of course, he's unlikely to come back from the dead, or for his death to provide a means of eternal life.
So exactly like Jesus then.
ChemOffice has a lot of inertia.
A lot of the functionality (ChemDraw, etc) has been available (and very popular in academic labs) on Macs since sometime in the '90s.
The alternatives work well for one person, but things tend to fall apart when collaborators use different programs.
How exactly does one distinguish between HTTP traffic of social media or messaging protocols and "allowed" traffic if those protocols may change or new ones can be invented at any minute?
By charging extra? I'm sure Verizon could be cajoled into adding a monthly "driver denial update fee" on all of its subscriptions.
The law won't apply to vehicles driven by a licensed chauffeur, if it's the passenger using the phone.
To avoid the wrath of politicians the system will have to let them use their device while an aide (not a chauffeur) drives them around. And the car companies are completely screwed if the system interferes with lawyers billing hours during their hourlong commute.
When you join the class, you are agreeing to the lawyers' negotiated settlement.
It's the class's negotiated settlement, not the lawyers'. The suit is started by the lead plaintiffs, who hire the lawyers. It is the lead plaintiffs that agree to any negotiated settlement, not the lawyers. The whole point of the action is to satisfy the interest of the class, not the lawyers. I realize that these principles are often abused, but those are the principles nonetheless. Lawyers who get too careless with them get jail time: just ask Bill Lerach.
The primary point of a class action lawsuit isn't to "fight for the little guy," it is to punish companies that do wrong. If lawyers end up making $2 billion off a lawsuit, well, that's $2 billion out of the company's coffers.
No.
Punitive damages do that. Compensatory damages are intended to make the plaintiffs "whole". The jury or judge will make it clear which damages are intended to do what. Remember, class actions aren't just for pizzas, they're also for injuries and death caused by negligence.
Either way, I think there should be parity in awards to the attorneys and the plaintiffs in a class action suit, both in time and monetary value. If the class is paid in coupons, the attorneys are paid in coupons.
The attorneys are free to sell the coupons for cash.
If the plaintiffs are paid cash over a period of time - say a trust has been established that pays medical bills- the attorneys should be paid incrementally as the trust is used up. The attorneys certainly have the option to sell that revenue stream for an immediate payment - they'll probably get 50-70 cents on the dollar.
The point is that class action attorneys should have their interests tightly aligned with those of the class, otherwise they will cut deals that benefit only themselves. The best and simplest way to do that is to reward them as a percentage of the net present value of the market value (not face value) of the plaintiff's share of the award.
for desktops, that is.
It's the same story every generation.
CPUs:
CPUs: The low price AMD units win the performance/purchase price competition. Low price Intel units win the performance/(purchase + operating costs) competition, at least they do if your computer is on very much and you pay for your own electricity.
Boats have been built with a wind turbine connected to an underwater prop; they can sail directly upwind. There's a lot more drag involved than with a cart, so I don't know if one has been built that can sail directly downwind FTTW.
Can we just call this a Monty Hall problem which also includes a force vector for lift generated by a rotating foil?
Per kwh, your average coal fired powerplant is probably in China burning high sulfur coal, so I'm not sure about it polluting less than the average Camry. On the bright side, while those Chinese powerplants pollute quite a lot the excess sulfur means more smog, clouds, and particulates, which sucks for China but actually decreases global warming (for now). Granted, Teslas won't be charging up on power generated in China, but their Panasonic batteries (and many if not most car parts) are made there.
Forget the panels - how many of the manufacturing or installing companies will be around in 15 years to honor the warranty?
So long as solar panels are silicon based it's going to be hard to compete with third world countries wherever they are located. Purifying silicon and manufacturing photovoltaic cells generates a lot of pretty nasty waste. The US and the EU have quite a bit to say about how you dispose of it and whether or not you have keep it separate from your workers. I have no idea how Mexico will stack up in that regard, but hopefully better than China.
Unfortunately same goes for India, at least when it comes to pharmaceuticals. Ranbaxy (a generic drug manufacturer) just received a $500M fine from the FDA for basically faking all of their QC paperwork (ISO and GMP) and FDA applications for all of their products. The FDA did on-site inspections but they were always announced months in advance so Ranbaxy had plenty of time to prepare. They copied and faked bioequivalence and QC documents and submitted them to the US, EU, South American countries, South Africa ... They only got caught because whistleblowers (who previously worked for US pharma companies) spent months begging the FDA to investigate.