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From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
Subject: Re: Other attacks on research (Was: Re: The Cold War: a Golden Age...)
Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:17:53 GMT

In article <19739@ector.cs.purdue.edu> sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin) writes:
>
>I must enter a dissenting opinion.  Tenure ensures that professors
>have at least some freedom of action.  Politics (at least in the CS
>departments I've seen and heard about) is vicious, and the only thing
>that protects the jobs of the political minority is tenure.  

It is also being used effectively against dissenting junior faculty .
If a of the senior faculty does not like for whatever reason a 
junior faculty member, he/she may vote against granting tenure. It
ensures that dissenting faculty would not even make it into the
department. I posted a while ago a letter from a tenured professor
at the University of Northern Colorado. He tells how senior faculty members
denied tenure to a couple of well-qualified junior faculty just
because they were a threat to senior faculty "do-nothingism". There
are many indications that it is not an isolated case.

>sjc@cs.purdue.edu               Steve Chapin           Today's Grammar Lesson:
>                    ect. is meaningless; etc. == et cetera

Dov
From: pjl2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Paul J Landsberg)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Re: US academic job market improving?
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:24:58 GMT
Reply-To: pjl2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Paul J Landsberg)
Organization: Columbia University

(Ken Mcdonald) writes:
>Guess again.  Read "Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences," a
>nicely done research book put out by two people over at Princeton.  Should
>be in your library.
>
>To summarize:  only the humanities/social sciences have any real prospect
>for a decent job market.  The hard sciences, nada.

Arh arh arh.  I had to wipe a tear from my eye after chuckling so hard.
The Humanities and social sciences haven't had much hiring in the past
two years.  That means there is roughly a 2 year pipeline of 'qualified'
people that could conceivably fill positions.  Of course these people
might be working as writers now, putting out books like "Prospects for
Faculty........"

>Remember a few points:
>
>1)  There are a lot of postdocs in holding pattern, waiting for jobs to
>open up.  Some will time out by the time you (generic) finish your
>Ph.D., many others will have built up a nice publication record.

And this isn't similarly true in the humanities?  They don't have 
postdocs per se but a lot of Ph.D. end up teaching in small colleges
on 1 year contracts.

>
>2)  The budget crunch will continue.  University funding will be cut,
>and (I suspect) there will be a growing realization that too many people
>in North America are taking degrees that they really can't use.  I
>suspect a real movement in the future to downsize universities, and move
>the teaching load to community colleges.

And this isn't true in the humanities.

>
>3)  Once the recession ends, enrolments will drop.  If it doesn't end,
>then enrolments will drop, because people will eventually run out of savings
>or monetary sources to keep attending school.

Ditto.

>4)  There are a lot of good faculty from Eastern Europe in various fields
>looking for jobs.
>
>5)  Even if you do get a job, the standard of living (leisure, pay, etc)
>which can be expected by new faculty continues to deteriorate.
>
>Sorry to be so pessimistic, but with a decision like this, people should
>be aware of the facts.
>
>Do read the book.  It's worthwhile.

If the book claims that employment for Ph.Ds is tightening up overall,
I probably agree heartily.  But to single out the sciences as being
hit harder.....................that just raises a logic alert!

Paul Landsberg
Xref: sparky sci.research:1117 sci.edu:1027
From: rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier)
Newsgroups: sci.research,sci.edu
Subject: Sigma Xi?
Date: 27 Sep 92 01:58:20 GMT
Followup-To: sci.research
Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Arizona

I've subscribed to `American Scientist' magazine for many years; ever since
I was a graduate student, in fact.  For those who haven't encountered it,
it's like `Scientific American' in its broad coverage of the sciences, but
it's intended for the practicing scientist or engineer rather than the
general reader.

However... `American Scientist' is also billed as an official publication
of Sigma Xi, which is described on the editorial page as "a national
science and engineering honor society".  This statement puzzles me.  How
active is Sigma Xi?  And how exactly does one join it?  I've never received
a solicitation to join, even though the editorial page says it has 100,000
members!  To the best of my knowledge I've never met any; are they really
that common?  Or are subscribers to the magazine counted as members?

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Newsgroups: sci.research
From: J103680@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: X-ray map of Northern California
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 21:11:03 GMT

I am searching for an X-ray map of N. CA to reveal caves and
caverns underground.  Do you know of any sources?
Xref: sparky sci.research:1121 talk.politics.misc:48410
From: allens@yang.earlham.edu (Allen Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.research,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: fyi #129:  House Committee's Report on the He
Date: 29 Sep 92 06:38:21 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <1992Sep26.150435.29536@relay.nswc.navy.mil>, rsherme@diamond.nswc.navy.mil (Russel Shermer (R43)) writes:
> House Committee's Report on the Health of US Research
> 
> A first step toward creating "a more rigorous and
> socially-responsive science policy," the report says, "is to define
> goals toward which the research should be expected to contribute."
> Examples include achieving national energy security, enhancing
> environmental protection, improving human health, increasing the
> productivity and profitability of high technology industries,
> maintaining a healthy research infrastructure, expanding the
> knowledge base, educating future scientists, and creating a
> scientifically and technologically literate work force.  Both Brown
> and Boucher stressed that the creation of new knowledge, through
> basic research, should continue to be a priority.  According to
> Brown, this review of science policy is "not intended to diminish
> the importance of basic research."
> 
	Let's see; what things are within what the government has as its 
basic business, according to (for instance) the Declaration of Independence?
	National energy security? The security part, yes, but that often 
goes too far in the direction of protecting what's already around. Enhancing
environmental protection? Only in building better detection devices for from
where pollution is coming from; let the private companies (with taxes on those
who are emitting the pollution) come up with the pollution control devices.
Improving human health? Private companies can do that just fine. Healthy
research infrastructure? This is rather vague; I'd say government intervention
is probably not required here. Expanding the knowledge base? Same as 
above. Educating future scientists? Only to the level of the last 
objective, which I agree with.
	All in all, another attempt to pretty up government sticking its 
nose in where it doesn't belong.
	-Allen
From: egb008@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr R D Felton)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Re: NASA TMs/TPs:would you like to ftp them?
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:32:54 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <BvIB1I.9ov@news.larc.nasa.gov> M.L.Nelson@LaRC.NASA.GOV (Michael Nelson) writes:
>
>My question is if NASA-Langley Technical Memorandums
>and Technical Papers were available in PostScript form
>for anonymous ftp, would you find this desirable?
>
>I am contemplating making them available and would like
>to have some feedback to determine if such a service is waranted.
>
>Caveat #1 - The files would be available in directories 
>corresponding to the year that they were released.  An ascii
>Index of titles and possibly abstracts could be provided.
>Thus, searching is limited to perusing the abstract list.
>
>Caveat #2 - Some figures in the documents might not be availiable
>in electronic form.  That is, some pictures and such that are
>part of the final TM/TP do not exist electronically.  I have no
>idea how many papers this affects and to what extent.
>
>If you have feelings about this service, one way or another,
>please contact me.  I have set follow-ups to sci.research, but 
>email would be the easiest method.  I can post the results of the
>inquiry and the status of the project if it is desired.
>
>thank you for your time,
>
>Michael Nelson
>NASA-Langley Research Center
>M.L.Nelson@LaRC.NASA.GOV


Yes, sounds like a good way to reduce inter-library-loan costs.
It might be useful to include some way of doing a subject, author, title,
keywords, etc type of search.

Richard Felton.
FCS group, SECAMS, Lancaster University, U.K.
E-mail : egb008@uk.ac.lancs.cent1
From: b5249-23@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Kurt Stocklmeir)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: cancer
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:42:49 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.


    A photoactive dye called haematoporphyrin is used in photoradiation.
Photoradiation is a method used to kill cancer cells.  This dye is absorbed by
almost all cells.  But cancer cells keep this dye in them for a much
longer time as compared to normal cells.  After this dye has left
the normal cells, and while it is still in cancer cells, red light
is used to put it into an excited state.  The dye goes into an
excited state, and transfers energy to oxygen molecules.  The oxygen
molecules then go into an excited state and kill the cell they are
in.  The problem with this method is that red light will go through
only about 1/3 in. of a person.
    Red light has an energy of about 1.8 ev.  Because a molecule is
photoactive, does not mean there are not other methods to put it in an excited
state.  For example, collisions with other particles can cause a molecule to
go into an excited state.  This method and others could maybe excite
haematoporphyrin in all parts of a body.
    Since people are mostly made of water, many molecules are in a
form of ions.  Positive ions and protons tend to be around the cell wall on
the inside of cells.  Most of the positive ions are K+.  Negative ions are
on the outside of the cell wall.  Theories state that cancer cells
may have a larger negative charge on the outside of cell walls as
compared to normal cells and because of this there is an imbalance
between forces of negative charges and forces associated with
molecules.  This maybe is why cancer cells can move to different
parts of a body.
    Charged particles can be accelerated using electric fields.  I
am not saying the following can be done, but I am saying it maybe
can be done.  Alternating electric fields can accelerate charged
particles in cells and outside of cells.  As the charged particles
are accelerated, they will have various amounts of kinetic energy.
Some of the particles could maybe have about 1.8 ev of kinetic energy while
most will not.  If that is true, then those particles with 1.8 ev
can collide with molecules of haematoporphyrin and excite them.
If a reasonable amount of this dye is excite in a cell, the cell
will then be killed.  Even if this happened only a small amount
of the time, this method could be used to kill cancer cells.
In my opinion, it would be better if the above only happened a
small amount of the time, since killing all cancer cells in a person
at 1 time could kill the person.
    If anybody has any suggestions about this method or would
like to experimentally try this method and would like my suggestions,
please send mail.
From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Re: Sigma Xi?
Date: 27 Sep 92 18:29:04 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department

In article <RSM.92Sep26185820@coral.math.arizona.edu> rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) writes:
>I've subscribed to `American Scientist' magazine for many years; ever since
>I was a graduate student, in fact.  For those who haven't encountered it,
>it's like `Scientific American' in its broad coverage of the sciences, but
>it's intended for the practicing scientist or engineer rather than the
>general reader.

>However... `American Scientist' is also billed as an official publication
>of Sigma Xi, which is described on the editorial page as "a national
>science and engineering honor society".  This statement puzzles me.  How
>active is Sigma Xi?  And how exactly does one join it?  I've never received
>a solicitation to join, even though the editorial page says it has 100,000
>members!  To the best of my knowledge I've never met any; are they really
>that common?  Or are subscribers to the magazine counted as members?

Sigma Xi is, as stated, an honor society.  The name means, "Companions in
Zealous Research."  As such, one must be elected to it by a chapter of the
society.  The requirment, as stated, consists of demonstrated ability to make
significant original contributions to scientific knowledge.

Many science departments at major universities nominate and elect most of
their successful PhD candidates to membership.  Universities with active
chapters also do this for their faculty members, although many of them 
prefer to have the degree granting institution do this for those cases
in which that school has an active chapter.  Whether someone becomes a
member may depend more on the activity of the local chapter than just on
demonstration of the requirements.

I have been a member since before my degree, on the basis of research which
I had already done.  I have not been an active member for many years, however.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
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From: bush@wigner.physics.upenn.edu (Judith Bush)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Feminism in/and Science and Technology, the e-mail list
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:11:12 GMT
Organization: UPenn Physics Pharm
Status: R


Thought I'd pass this on:

   FIST@hamp.hampshire.edu
   Feminism in/and Science and Technology, the e-mail list.

   Because of the recent interest generated, a new list has been
   created.  This list is for discussion of feminism and science and
   technology.  This will be an unmoderated list.  If you are a
   scientist and a feminist this list is for you.  If you are a
   feminist, and interested in science and technology, check it out.
   The idea of this list is to discuss critiques of science and move
   beyond these critiques into the realm of how do we create a feminist
   science?  What do we need to pay attention to?  How does one do this
   and get tenure?  How do we teach science?

   To get on this list, send a message to
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   Send all adminstrivia there too (getting off the list, changing
   addresses, etc.)

   *** Please include a paragraph introducing yourself and what you do. ***

   Please be patient with the list subscription requests (I need to
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   To send a message to the whole list, send to
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From: ojuarez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Octavio Juarez Espinosa)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Looking opinions about financial sources research
Summary: help
Keywords: research financial
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:33:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: mtecv2.6085
Organization: I.T.E.S.M. Campus Monterrey

Hi,


In my country the applied research projects are supported by sponsors of
government. I think my country must to support basic science research.
I'll appreciate if you send me information about sponsors in other
countrys. Which are the conditions.

Thanks in advance and excuse me my bad english.

Octavio Juarez
ojuarez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
Monterrey, Mexico.

-- 
Octavio Juarez Espinosa
Gabriel Valerio 1134 
Saltillo, Coahuila    CP 25000
Mexico  email ojuarez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
From: cm9@prism.gatech.EDU (MCKEITHAN,CLIFFORD M.)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Re: NASA TMs/TPs:would you like to ftp them?
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:14:05 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Most emphatically, please make the NASA pubs
available by FTP.  The more the better.  One
of the most useful things that NASA could do
is to make RECON available over the internet
to that individuals could do subject searches.
If you have any input to that process, please
exercise it.


-- 
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Newsgroups: sci.research
From: saeed@a.cs.okstate.edu (SAEED FAISEL)
Subject: what do you know about IDS model ?
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 23:15:55 GMT

I need some info on the IDS model suggested by Cornsweet & Yellot.
And I want to start with a comprehensive bibliography on IDS.

Any email containing any pointers like any work done related to IDS,
specially any publications, etc will be appreciated.

I would also like to correspond with anyone currently working on it.


-- 

Faisel Saeed
Computer Science Department,   Oklahoma State University,   Stillwater, OK 
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Newsgroups: sci.research
From: rowland@zorba7.larc.nasa.gov (Michael W. Rowland)
Subject: Env. Satellites Shutdown in Dec. 1992
Keywords: satellite, ozone layer, aerosols, budget cuts
Reply-To: rowland@zorba7.larc.nasa.gov (Michael W. Rowland)
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681  USA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:43:43 GMT

 We at Langley Research Center received news on Thursday, October 2,
1992 that NASA intends to shutdown the following satellites in
December to save about $15M:

     NUMBUS-7

     ERBS

     NOAA-9

     NOAA-10

The following experiments will not be operational while
the satellites are shutdown:

     Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement II  (SAM II)

     Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBS) (3)

     Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE II)

There were no plans stated to restart the satellites at a
later date.

Also UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) may go after its
18 months are completed!

Mike Rowland

Mike Rowland, Aerosol Research Branch, MS 475
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA 23681
internet: rowland@zorba7.larc.nasa.gov
From: ai686@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ishaq Syed)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Gentics
Date: 4 Oct 1992 02:01:31 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


Am looking for NEW and exciting gentics project that can be done by
highschool studetn.  Please resopond with any ideas you might have for 
a science fair project. Thank you.

				Ishaq
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Newsgroups: sci.environment
From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
Subject: Re: Anti-Gore article
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:29:03 GMT

Thomas F. Donnelly (donnelly@nosc.mil) wrote:

: 
: What is this non-issue doing on sci.environment?  Please don't answer.
: 			    T. Donnelly
: 			    donnelly@cod.nosc.mil
: 

	I, for one, thinks it's an issue (and I started it, so there).
Why?
	Because the original title of this thread is "Anti-Gore" article,
and it appears that we are discussing peripheral issues to the presidential
campaign, which has a contrast in significantly different platform 
positions regarding the environment.  I'm defending the Clinton/Gore ticket,
whose environmental positions I support, against scurrilous attacks 
which don't have much to do with the environment.  I probably won't
change Josh's mind, but I had to think about this issue regarding a vote
for Clinton/Gore.  Did it change my mind?  Do I abandon my support because
of some peccadilloes a college student committed while trying to avoid
having his ass blown off in a swampy jungle?  Yeah, maybe Clinton prevaricated
about his draft record.  According to Secord, Bush was "in the loop"
regarding the Iran-Contra decision-making process, and a Weinberger memo
reportedly supports this.  Now who do you trust?  And if true, who's been
lying to the American public?
	Relevance to sci.environment:  Major.

	Jim Acker
	jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: sci.environment
From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
Subject: Re: Spotted Owl (Re: The Human Niche
Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 12:42:53 GMT

In article <1a37fqINNku8@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:

>> our economic system, just as the tailing of diamond mining are worthless.

> That's odd.  I thought coal was considered to be a valuable resource.

Are you under the misapprehension that diamonds come from coal mines?
Diamonds come from peculiar rocks called kimberlites, which come from
deep under the continents.  They don't contain coal.

	Paul F. Dietz
	dietz@cs.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: sci.environment
From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
Subject:  CFC short in "New Scientist"
Summary: CFC atmospheric plateau
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:15:37 GMT


	From "New Scientist" October 3, 1992:

HALON PLATEAU

	Concentrations of ozone-depleting halons in the lower atmosphere
are levelling off, according to research carried out by US scientists 
working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 
Boulder, Colorado.
	The finding, after decades of increases, is reported in the
latest issue of "Nature".  The NOAA team, led by James Butler, credit
the improvement to a combination of voluntary controls and measures
adopted under the Montreal Protocol.


The issue also has a short article concerning great tits.  Honest.

	Jim Acker
	jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov