…private, institutions to divide and arrange their activities into separate categories has been inescapable. Sheer scale has made it a management imperative for large organizations to delegate authority and organize…
…including tractors, seeds, chemicals and irrigation, joined through timely information flows and better organized markets, raised yields to feed billions more without clearing new fields. In fact, since mid-century global…
…for industry organization because they especially reward producers who are the most efficient and lowest cost – in short, the most competitive. They often witness a big restructuring of the…
…preset the starting point and the slope on the basis of the effects one wants to reach. More importantly, one can avoid the wild, painful excursions around the trend organized…
…of Life: www.eol.org Barcode of Life Database: www.barcodinglife.org Consortium for the Barcode of Life: barcoding.si.edu Barcoding marine species: www.marinebarcoding.org FishBol: www.fishbol.org Barcoding blog: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog Ten Reasons for Barcoding Life: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/TenReasonsBarcoding.pdf “Barcode of Life” Scientific American, October 2008: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/BarcodeScientificAmerican.2008.10.pdf…
…the nation and reflecting glory instead of disenchantment on the university. Another positive prescription is reducing the cost of research without a youthful army of exploited inductees minimizing labor cost….
…holidays”2 -1,744 -8,534 -10,278 -720 -3,280 -4,000 Shorter/Longer Work career3 +11,674 -13,779 -2,105 -2,675 +19,268 +16,593 TOTAL -26,830 -34,810 -61,640 -22,240 -710 -22,950 1Changes in hours worked per week (lower…
…the improved variety resists pests, it lessens the external effects of pesticides compared to a sprayed crop. By minimally changing the external effects of things that farmers do per area,…
We celebrate recent achievements in biodiversity informatics. Â Enjoy exploring the new GBIF interface for the global mapping of occurrence records. Try zooming and using the time slider: Â https://www.gbif.org/occurrence…
…sources, public and private. The main cost of the program will be the field projects, likely to cost about $5-$25 million each. While Sloan and other private funders can catalyze…