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Friday, April 8, 2011
There Is No Hope Of Doing Perfect Research (Griffiths, 1998, P97)
for something complete and flawless but to err is the human so no human can ever be flawless. The process of research is totally a scientific process comprised of the different stages through which a research worker or group has to undergo. A perfect research demands absolute precision and accuracy throughout the process which is almost impossible to attain as we can never do away with human errors.
These errors affect the liability of a research work on a large scale and make it doubtful or imperfect. There are several things playing a pivotal role in shaping the research work like :
- Systematic or Random Errors.
- Biases.
- Limited access to the subjects of Research.
- Inadequate time or facilities to gather information.
Another such instance of an imperfect research was observed by me during my Post Graduate studies where I’d been studying Literature. As a final assignment the two groups of students were allocated with the task of finding out “whether American and English Literature has similarities between them regarding their themes and style or not.” By coincidence one of the groups came across such work in both literatures that had striking similarities in style and ideas, while the other came across the work which widely differed from each other in every way .As a result both of the groups came forward with conflicting results after their research work and both had quite strong evidences and examples to support their point making every one confused whether to rely on the work of one group or the other.
Hence it has become a crystal clear fact that Research is not a stale process but it is a continuous one, as every research gives way to another research which may prove the first one wrong. This quality of research has been a cause of many scientific innovations and new discoveries. Had a research work been accepted as a Perfect one there would not have been any growth in many fields like Science and education. During my graduation I had studied Genetics where I came across Gregor Mendel’s work who was considered as the Father of Genetics. Mendel's Second Law, which was result of his continuous research of several years, stated:
During the formation of sperm and egg, the segregation of alleles for
one gene is independent of the segregation of alleles for another gene.
This law was slightly more complex to demonstrate, requiring the
statistical analysis of offspring of plants that differed in two separate characteristics.
( Gregor Mendel, 1865 & 1866).This law is believed to be the foundation of genetics and was believed to be totally correct in its entire disposition but later the result of the experiments of Thomas Hunt Morgan questioned its complete truth. In 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan’s research in turn led to the idea of genetic linkage, which means that “when two genes are closely associated on the same chromosome, they do not assort independently”. (Morgan, 1911). Morgan's proposal was an early suggestion that “genes were real, physical objects that were located on chromosomes” (Robbins, 2000). Indeed, this knowledge of genetic linkage was critical to prove that genes were actual objects that could be inherited, undergo recombination, and be mapped to specific locations on chromosomes.
It is implied from the above given examples and research findings that there is no word like Perfection when we talk about a research work .These findings had convinced me to believe Griffith’s quote and I, myself is a strong supporter of the view that we can’t hope to come across a Perfect Research ever.
Works Cited
“Glossary of Terms”. Berkeley Education.n.p. n.d.
"Gregor Mendel." 123HelpMe.com. n.d
Morgan, T. H. “Sex-limited inheritance in Drosophila”. Science 132, 120–122 (1910) and Random segregation versus coupling in Mendelian inheritance. Science 34, 384 (1911)
T. H. Morgan “R. J. Introduction to sex-limited inheritance in Drosophila”.Electronic Scholarly Publishing, 2000
Friday, January 14, 2011
Small, Handy Ultrasound Scanner
This device is the smallest available form of presently used huge Scanners . as we all know that presently it is the key factor of innovation that things are to be made smaller in size to make them user friendly. This device has been invented with the objective to make it easier for every doctor to get latest scanner available at his place for immediate diagnosis. Furthermore this device is so portable that a doctor can easily carry it in Hospital, private clinic or any other place where it is required. This device is specially useful in case of emergencies where it is almost impossible to fetch the patient to a laboratory to get his scans done.
The handy scanners is also useful in some particular cases like accident cases with skull or bone injuries, trauma, seizure or strokes etc , where it is thought to be dangerous to move the patient from one place to another. Such a risk become inevitable because no further treatment is possible without the indication of the root of problem and its right spot. In such cases this scanner can prove to be a blessing for the doctors as well as the victims of such problems. The in time and on the spot diagnosis made by this gadget can decrease the risk level at a considerable rate and its timely suggested diagnosis can make it easier and simpler for the physicians or surgeons to complete their task.Thus the rate of survival and recovery for such patients can be notably increased.
By this we can conclude that this small gadget is really a Big invention which can bring revolution in the process of emergency diagnosis. The efforts of the inventors is really appreciable as they have come up truly with an amazing and wonderful invention which was the need of the time.
Pen that Reduces Stress
The world is changing at a rapid speed and everyday we are coming up with new technologies and devices of which we can not even think few years back. In the coming future, more and more interactive products are going to come in the market. These products will be able to read between the lines what users are feeling and use that information in a smart way to reform or reconstruct their behavior. Miguel Bruns Alonso, an Industrial Design PhD student from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, came up with an innovative and unthinkable idea of creating an anti-stress pen. Miguel Bruns Alonso has developed a pen which can measure the stress levels of the person using it, and can actually help to reduce that stress. In experiments, the heart rate of people who used the anti-stress pen fell by an average of five percent.According to the inventor, the prototype pen is able to spot short-term stress in a person that uses it and it does not stop here but it has a mechanism to reduce some of that stress. The device identifies stress when it is being fidgeted with. As soon as the anti-stress pen detects fidgeting, it gets the person to stop by its special sensitive electromagnetic mechanism.
According to Alonso, experiments performed in the course of his research indicated that people tend to play with their pens when they're tense – We all know that we tend to do so when we are bored, but perhaps boredom counts as a type of stress or tension too. The inventor has kept this idea in mind and has equipped his invention with motion sensors. These are used to identify nervous movement and when that happens, the built-in magnets create a counterweight effect, which makes it difficult for the user to move the pen. Once the nervous movements stop, so do the effects of the electromagnets. The user, by this means is rewarded for ceasing behavior that not only indicates but sometimes apparently worsens the mental stress.
When the pen was tested on human subjects, those receiving feedback through the device had an average heart rate five percent lower than those who received none. These study groups did not know that the pen was equipped with any kind of motion sensors and it was designed to provide feedback, and the group that did receive it didn't claim to feel any less stress than the control group.
The conclusion to be drawn from this is that products which seek to reduce short-term stress should, preferably, intervene directly to modify that behavior, rather than warning the user about their stress levels, for instance. This could allow products to reduce stress in an unobtrusive way.” At present this pen is a prototype and not yet available for purchase, but it could become more useful invention with the passage of time to make a person's life much better by reducing some percentage of his stress and tension.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Midori
The Operating Systems are about to enter their 4th generation with a revolutionary change ,as technology is lagging behind what consumers need. Conventional operating systems like Windows are woefully inadequate to support applications that span multiple devices let alone distribute tasks and data among those devices and with the cloud. Writing those types of applications also requires a break from the past. Microsoft’s current technologies are laying the groundwork for that break to occur. Midori is the code name for a managed code operating system being developed by Microsoft Research. Very little is known about Midori as it is still under development. Development started around 2006. It has been reported to be a possible commercial implementation of the Singularity operating system, a research project started in 2003 to build a highly-dependable operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code. With the Internet increasingly taking on the role of the PC operating system and the growing prevalence of virtualization technologies, there will be a day when the Microsoft Windows client OS will become obsolete making way for a completely new OS.Microsoft seems to be preparing for that day with an incubation project code-named Midori, -A new OS that will take advantage of technologies not available when Windows first was conceived. Till now it’s in a state of incubation as InfoWorld's Randall C. Kennedy says “ Midori is a pipe dream at best”.
Midori is an operating system which will rely entirely on the Web and will integrate better with all the possibilities offered by the Network. Midori, according to the intentions, would be based on a two-tier system of kernels: the first, a microkernel, will manage the hardware, how threads are managed a multi-core CPUs and all the administration part and management of resources and consumption. The second will be instead on the management of applications and operating system features. Official listed features are:
Full integration with GTK+ 2
Fast rendering with Web Kit
Tabs, windows and session management
Flexibly configurable Web Search
User scripts and user styles support
Straightforward bookmark management
Customizable and extensible interface
Extension modules can be written in C
Support HTML5 on Youtube
Midori 0.1.6 passing the Acid3 Test
It will likely to give probably 10% better performance than Linux (significantly more on multi core) and 1/10th the security and reliability issues of the existing applications. It will also make maintaining or changing the operating system much cheaper and easier and reduce previous and future bloat by a significant margin ( due to a single large runtime/API) . Singularity is a new operating system being developed as a basis for more dependable system and application software. Singularity exploits advances in programming languages and tools to create an environment in which software is more likely to be built correctly, program behavior is easier to verify, and run-time failures can be contained. A key aspect of Singularity is an extension model based on Software-Isolated Processes (SIPs), which encapsulate pieces of an application or a system and provide information hiding, failure isolation, and strong interfaces.
So though there is no telling, at this point in time, where exactly Midori will end up but we might be seeing the end of Windows OS soon.