Immunotherapy in Cancer: Incremental Gain or a Quantum Leap?

AbstractFollowing the 1997 financial crisis, Korea underwent a dramatic overhaul of its corporate governance framework. Drastic changes in its legal and regulatory infrastructure led to more transparent and accountable companies. Boards of directors, shareholders, stakeholders, and auditors began to function effectively and even a corporate control market emerged. Many forms of internal and external corporate governance and market-oriented discipline were established. Korean companies are poised to make a quantum leap to reach the most competitive international levels of corporate governance. This paper argues that Korea must continue its reform efforts. It first discusses the Asian financial crisis and the first stage of reforms that followed. It then explores the areas where Korea needs to undergo the next stage of reforms. It will argue that only then can Korean corporations receive proper valuations. Korean companies have indeed come a long way but lingering perceptions of weak corporate governance thwart them from becoming world-class competitors.

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Progress In Design and Applications Of CCD Cameras For Electron Microscopy

Microscopy Today ◽

10.1017/s1551929500065652 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 3 (10) ◽

pp. 12-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kenneth H. Downing

Keyword(s):

High Sensitivity ◽

Ccd Cameras ◽

Video Cameras ◽

Quantum Leap ◽

Fluorescent Screen ◽

Lower Beam ◽

Video Systems ◽

On Line ◽

Specimen Quality ◽

Electron Microscopes

Over the last several years the long-awaited revolution in direct-digital readout systems has begun, with the introduction of efficient slow-scan CCD cameras. Earlier, the introduction of video cameras to electron microscopes had brought a quantum leap in the speed and efficiency of carrying out a host of operations. The high sensitivity of the video cameras provided the ability to see the image in much more detail and at a lower beam intensity than had been previously possible by viewing the fluorescent screen. The ability to assess, on line, characteristics such as specimen quality and image focus, even qualitatively, gave feedback to the operator that previously took hours to obtain. Due to the low resolution of these video systems, however, they were rarely useful for data recording.

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Biomedical engineering in Israel: a quantum leap

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine ◽

10.1109/memb.2000.827400 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 21-23

Author(s):

S. Einav

Keyword(s):

Biomedical Engineering ◽

Quantum Leap

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Pressure gain combustion advantage in land-based electric power generation

Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society ◽

10.22261/jgpps.k4md26 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. K4MD26 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Seyfettin C. Gülen

Keyword(s):

Power Generation ◽

Power Plant ◽

Gas Turbines ◽

Combined Cycle ◽

Cycle Performance ◽

Heavy Duty ◽

Quantum Leap ◽

Pressure Gain Combustion ◽

Industrial Gas Turbines ◽

Plant Efficiency

AbstractThis article evaluates the improvement in gas turbine combined cycle power plant efficiency and output via pressure gain combustion (PGC). Ideal and real cycle calculations are provided for a rigorous assessment of PGC variants (e.g., detonation and deflagration) in a realistic power plant framework with advanced heavy-duty industrial gas turbines. It is shown that PGC is the single-most potent knob available to the designers for a quantum leap in combined cycle performance.

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