"I see it as a positive, in that allowing for soft skills to be evaluated equally may offer some opportunities to researchers at smaller institutions who may not have advantages in resources, instrumentation or corporate recruiting.
Selected recent research advances are highlighted, as they indicate new experimental successes, new insights into complex ion interaction mechanisms, and a fast evolving variety of advanced instrumentation and fabrication resources.
A baseline assessment of 13 laboratories (in the central, eastern, western regions) was conducted in November 1998 using a pre-defined (location, infrastructure, human resource, instrumentation, shipping of bacterial isolates and willingness to share bacterial isolates and data) assessment tool and nine laboratories were selected to implement the programme.
Because remote monitoring and control are also functions of LabExpert, the system allows full-time utilisation of analytical instrumentation and associated laboratory resources.
As a teaching aid, aimed at engineering students, virtual instrumentation is a powerful resource for the understanding of how monitoring and control of physical systems can be carried out.
Instead, many programs, including animal resources and shared instrumentation grants, will be part of a permanent-sounding "infrastructure entity".
Wulf defined a collaboratory as a "center without walls, in which the nation's researchers can perform their research without regard to physical location, interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, and accessing information in digital libraries" (Wulf W (1989) "The national collaboratory".
For their part, the French, always coloristically inclined, turned instrumentation into a principal compositional resource, so that in an unadorned piano transcription Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique retains little more than its basic contours.
(See also instrumentation; transposing musical instrument).
The PGRT infrastructure is designed to support advanced analysis for resource scheduling, application and instrumentation steering, and performance data mining.
