It is not all that long ago that the big credit crunch banks were being lambasted in some quarters for their plans to invest heavily in Chinese banks, and that at least one pundit was predicting “The Coming Collapse of China”. How things change! Now it is the titans of Wall Street and the City [...]

Background:
Genome-scale metabolic models are powerful tools to study global properties of metabolic networks. They provide a way to integrate various types of biological information in a single framework, providing a structured representation of available knowledge on the metabolism of the respective species.
Results:
We reconstructed a constraint-based metabolic model of Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1, a soil bacterium of [...]

This has gotta be one of the most spectacular stories we’ve read on Shanghai Daily. A 22 year old Zhejiang native has flown back from Italy to Shanghai to turn himself in to the police for a gang rape he was involved in six years ago. Shortly after the incident, the young man emigrated to [...]

Naval leaders must execute two great tasks simultaneously: 1) fight today’s war; and 2) position themselves for an uncertain future. They also face additional pressures that charge them to be better stewards of taxpayer dollars, with greater efficiency leading to improved effectiveness.
This has led to the pursuit of the following Navy mission: creation of greater [...]

A momentous day for both Chinese and Singaporean table tennis. China won three matches to zero in the finals of the first ever womens table tennis team event. Consisting of the best of five matches, China won the first three matches conceding only two games to Singapore.
Wang Nan of China lost the opening game of [...]

Introduced in the Fall of 2000, the Titleist Pro V1/V1x was one of the most revolutionary golf balls of all time by incorporating a multi-layer construction with a soft urethane-covering to virtually eliminate the traditional trade-offs between distance, spin, feel, and durability. Since then the Pro V1/V1x has been the dominant ball in golf. [...]

What makes a company? Is it the product, brand and profits or the people, purpose and culture? When — and how — does a group become a company? And what happens if a company simply remains a group? Does it matter?
I have been asking these questions recently because I’ve been helping one such [...]

I work with companies on a variety of application domains for technology and analytics. One of the questions that often arises is, “Where should we start?” They want to know where they can get the greatest return on their efforts. Increasingly I want to tell them—perhaps a bit more diplomatically—the title of this post. Pricing, [...]

What is Six Sigma?
The concepts surrounding the drive to Six Sigma quality are essentially those of statistics and probability. In simple language, these concepts boil down to, “How confident can I be that what I planned to happen actually will happen?” Basically, the concept of Six Sigma deals with measuring and improving how close we [...]