Cluster busters.

Bye, bye blockbusters, hello niche busters.

time for a great white shark named Bruce. A mechanical beast weighing 1.5 tonnes, Bruce was the star of Jaws, a movie that grossed US$260 million in the United States, ushering Hollywood into the summer blockbuster era. Like the movie industry, the pharmaceutical sector has in recent decades come to rely on annual blockbusters to drive profits. But it appears the blockbuster model is broken. Un...

Time busters: a lean team tackles OR turnover.

Health corruption busters reveal the monster in our midst.

Security Busters: Web browser security vs. rogue sites

URL blacklists are used by the majority of modern web browsers as a means to protect users from rogue web sites, i.e. those serving malware and/or hosting phishing scams. There is a plethora of URL blacklists/reputation services, out of which Google’s Safe Browsing and Microsoft’s SmartScreen stand out as the two most commonly used ones. Frequently, such lists are the only safeguard web browser...

Atmospheric Rivers as Drought Busters on the U.S. West Coast

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) have, in recent years, been recognized as the cause of the largemajority of major floods in rivers all along the U.S. West Coast and as the source of 30%–50% of all precipitation in the same region. The present study surveys the frequencywith whichARs have played a critical role as a common cause of the end of droughts on the West Coast. This question was based on the o...