Blood Pressure Out of the Office: Its Time Has Finally Come

Bioimpedance: Has Its Time Finally Come?

Bioimpedance, themeasurement of the frequency-dependent resistance to the flow of low energy electrical currents between two electrodes on or within the body, has been investigated for various medical applications for over 50 years. Applications in cardiology date back to at least 1966 and have included attempts to estimate stroke volume, cardiac output, cardiac contractility and lung fluid vol...

The time has (finally) come for the digital hospital.

Cancer and the circadian clock: has the time finally come?

W ithout the concept of time, there would be no physics, chemistry, or geology, but in medicine, time often gets short shrift. Yet in recent decades a small cadre of clinical investigators has found associations between the body's daily rhythms and the effectiveness of cancer treatment. Working in tandem, biologists have dissected the molecular underpinnings of the human circadian clock, a feed...

Has It Come Out of Its Marginality?

This paper explores the role migration has played in development studies, and in debates on economic growth and poverty. It argues that, despite a recent surge of interest in international migration and remittances, research on human mobility particularly for labour within poor countries does not have the place it deserves, and that it used to have in the classical development literature. Revie...

XML Databases: An Idea Whose Time has Finally Come

The demand for an efficient means to manage XML content is increasing proportionately with our increased dependence on XML-based applications, messaging and distributed computing. This white paper examines current market forces, available technology and the emerging XML landscape to gauge the value and, by extension, the demand for an XML-centric database that can sit alongside the many flavors...