Forced Migration Studies: Could We Agree Just to 'Date'?

What Did We Just Agree To? Analysis and Rewriting of the Dentist's Pledge.

We don't need to agree to coordinate

Autonomous mobile entities are playing an ever increasing role in our everyday lives. When such entities operate in the same environment, they need to coordinate their behaviour in order to ensure system-wide safety constraints. As these entities are mobile, they can only communicate over wireless (possibly ad hoc) networks. In wireless networks, however, communication is unreliable, therefore ...

Phage taxonomy: we agree to disagree.

Bacteriophage (phage) researchers are in universal agreement that phage biology has undergone a renaissance in recent years. No longer just tools of molecular biology, phage are now recognized to play critical roles in bacterial pathogenesis (3, 29) and bacterial population dynamics (5, 10). Likewise, phage therapy is enjoying renewed interest in Western medicine (24). Phage-derived proteins ar...

Diabetes Care to Date: “The Hits Just Keep on Coming!”

W ith this issue, we complete 18 months as the editorial team for Diabetes Care and document our progress for the preceding 6 months. We had provided a comprehensive update in January 2013 (1), and one would think that by this point in our tenure, the changes and updates would be minimal. However, as will be appreciated, nothing could be further from the truth. The changes have been many, and t...

Can we at least agree on something?

During a session of the INEX 2006 workshop in Schloss Dagstuhl the first at-INEX experiment was run. Participants were asked to assess topics in order to increase the number of multiple assessed topics available for analysis (and in order to increase the number of assessors per topic). This contribution presents the experimental set-up, the experiment, and an analysis of the results. When exami...