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Technical vs peer review
25 May 2012, 9:12 am
What is the difference between a technical review and a peer review? Both reviews are initiated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and aim to improve the quality of audit and acceptability of the financial statements.
Kove® XPD™ L2 Sets 5 Microsecond Storage Latency World Record
9 May 2012, 6:18 pm
Kove, a leader in high performance storage, is pleased to announce at the grand opening of the Dell Solution Center in New York City, another first for low latency storage. Using Mellanox’s InfiniBand, the Kove® XPD™ L2 storage has achieved continuous and sustained 5 microsecond random storage read and write.
How was the vertebrate/arthropod LCA segmented? [Pharyngula]
7 May 2012, 12:34 pm
Vertebrates are modified segmented worms; that is, their body plan is made up of sequentially repeated units, most apparent in skeletal structures like the vertebrae. Arthropods are also modified segmented worms. Look at a larval fly, for instance, and you can see they are made up of rings stacked together. So here's a simple and obvious question: can we infer that the last common ancestor of ...
Biderman On The Fed: "They Control The Market, We Play With Their Money"
30 April 2012, 8:17 pm
The pastel-wearing President of TrimTabs proffers an entirely non-perfunctory prose explaining why he believes we are now due for a stock market decline . Echoing our thoughts, Charles notes that " It's the Federal Reserve that controls the market, it's their money, they're the boss, we play with their money that they print or stop printing ". Sadly true (especially for all the highly-paid ...
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Dust to Dust: The Death of an Exoplanet - news.discovery.com
26 May 2012, 5:50 pm
Kepler looks for planet-like objects by detecting tiny, but periodic, dips in a star's brightness. That
periodicity is a clue that there might be a planet orbiting the star. Whenever the planet passes in front of the star, it blocks the same small amount of light.
Interview/General V K Singh - rediff.com
23 May 2012, 12:36 am
We keep reviewing the threats from time to time. There is no fixed
periodicity. It happens almost every fortnight. We see how things are moving. Then we come to certain conclusions. When we look at our western neighbour, there is a lot of ...
Geology expert explains Texas fault lines - KLTV
18 May 2012, 11:43 pm
Buchanan says it does happen in cycles. "Now these are different from the faults that we see in California that cause the major earthquake, and theirs usually a
periodicity or a frequency to this kind of activity, these are relatively small faults," says Buchanan.
