Word: peering
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...lesson from the 2003 blackout is that utilities needed more oversight. Before the blackout, Daigle notes, regulations on utility reliability depended on little more than "peer pressure." That's been beefed up in the years since, with tougher audits of utility systems and steeper fines for failures. But more importantly, we need to enhance what Daigle calls "situational awareness," or, in other words, the intelligence of the grid. The system failed in 2003 not so much because of unkempt trees and a few sagging lines, but because no one knew what was going on until it was too late. Utilities...
...have a vast repository of content created by faculty and peer reviewed internally," Komaroff said. "Our goal is to distribute high quality health information to the general public—and that's part of Harvard Medical School's educational mission...
...profession may have been derelict in its housekeeping duties, the inevitable improvement should not come through governmentally related professional-review organizations. The change for the better is already occurring from inside the profession with the appearance of a new generation of doctors who approve of using the system of peer review. This younger breed of physicians is devoted to ensuring the supremacy of U.S. medicine and patient care and does not want the Government to do our housecleaning for us. Alan Hollingsworth, M.D. Marina del Rey, Calif...
...Flat World's offerings won't differ much from a typical textbook in content. All have been authored by established academics and peer-reviewed before publication. It's the distribution method - via the Internet - that is a radical change. Video and audio clips are embedded in most texts, often adding timely examples from real-life practitioners. Plus, the texts are produced on an open-source platform, meaning they can be updated easily and professors can customize each textbook to match a particular lesson plan. Those are major advantages over paper editions, says Dana Lanham, an advertising professor at University...
...nearly 3% had tried cocaine by the same age. Those percentages jumped to 54% and 16%, respectively, by age 21. That finding isn't surprising, says Dr. Richard Schottenfeld, a professor of psychiatry and a drug expert at the Yale University School of Medicine, since peer influence has a significant impact on the prevalence of drug use. In the Netherlands, for example, there is a large, vocal and homogeneous conservative population that is staunchly opposed to marijuana, says Schottenfeld. And anti-drug activists have made recent attempts to tighten the country's cannabis policies...