Yet he does uncover interesting material on China, like the technique devised there for making compasses in the shapes of turtles or soup ladles.
The professor's work fits into a current fascination with "anti-aesthetics," in which artists devise systems for making art that defy traditional notions of composition and taste.
In addition to seeing patients, Michael McWilliams, associate professor of health care policy, studies the health care that millions of Americans receive, identifying where the systems have gone awry, and devising strategies for making improvements.
Most of the company's innovations concern not the content itself but how it is promoted and packaged: placing unusually large share buttons at the top and the bottom of posts; experimenting with which headlines and photographs would be more seductive; devising strategies for making posts show up prominently in Facebook's news feed.
Preparation of such kinds of maps before setting up strategies could be helpful in devising ways for making sustainable ecosystem management.
In the eighteen-fifties, a French chemist devised a method for making a few grams at a time, and aluminum was quickly adopted for use in expensive jewelry.
A team led by Farren J. Isaacs and George M. Church of the Harvard Medical School has devised a method for making hundreds of changes in a genome simultaneously.
Post-punk made the most of internal frictions — choppy guitars and sustained melodies, abrasiveness and elegance, desire and defiance — and devised durable strategies for making lean, dramatic songs.
Recently, he and collaborators at the University of California, Santa Barbara, devised a method for making silicon wires just a few nanometers wide, about ten times smaller than the smallest features in today's integrated circuits.
It then devised a plan for making those drugs more affordable (for example, by offering smaller packs with fewer pills), established a network of local distributors to ensure dependable supplies, and enlisted hundreds of local educators to teach people how to improve their health and refer them to physicians for treatment.
