Far more parallel experiments can be performed in shaken microtiter plates (MTPs) (Duetz et al., 2000 John et al., 2003 Minas et al., 2000).
Now, six years later, after coaxing a new Iranian government into negotiations even many of Mr. Obama's top aides predicted were doomed to failure, the outreach to Iran has morphed into a far more complex experiment in engagement than Mr. Obama's previous two, first with Myanmar, then with Cuba.
The U.S., itself, was a far more successful experiment because of that approach, expressed in James Madison's view that, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary". Marc Hodak is managing director of Hodak Value Advisors, a firm specializing in the finance and compensation issues of corporate governance.
(See the sidebar "Are You Part of the Problem?") This is particularly important because, in management research, studies that use surveys or data from company records to correlate practices with various performance outcomes are far more common than experiments.
These developments, combined with the widely held disenchantment the public feels toward large financial institutions, make consumers far more likely to experiment with new service providers.
The House of Representatives has been far more forward-thinking, experimenting with crowdsourced legislation, an online petition process for pending laws, and making data on legislation open to the public.
That means far less scrutiny from regulators and far more room to experiment with the pile of cash it stands to make in the customized security software market as well as all the new cores it has no choice but to add to each new generation of chips.
The next-generation sequencing platform can generate far more data per experiment than traditional sequencing technology.
The far more scientific Alexander von Humboldt experimented on himself, even pushing an electrode into the cavity left by an extracted tooth.
Recently a new experimental method, RNA-Seq, has emerged that has a number of advantages over conventional EST sequencing: it uses next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies that can sample the mRNA with fewer biases, it generates far more data per experiment, and it generates data that can be used as a direct measure of the level of gene expression.
