From your kidneys to your eyes: lessons from computational kidney models

See your brands through your customers' eyes.

Subaru markets an L.L. Bean Outback station wagon. Dell stamps Microsoft and Intel logos on its computers. Such inter-weaving of different companies' brands is now commonplace. But one of the central tools of brand management-portfolio mapping--has not kept pace with changes in the marketplace. Most conventional brand maps include only those brands owned by a company, arranged along organizatio...

Dry your eyes 1 Running head: DRY YOUR EYES Dry Your Eyes: Examining the Roles of Robots for Childcare Applications

Reflective Middleware: From Your Desk to Your Hand

Communication middleware simplifies the construction of component-based distributed applications [1] [2]. However, the lack of flexibility in the construction of the middleware itself imposes limitations and is a major concern [3-7]. While applications can detect changes in their execution environment, they cannot customize the underlying middleware to better accommodate these changes. To solve...

Lessons from aviation safety: “plan your operation – and operate your plan!”

The systematic implementation of surgical safety checklists in the past 5 to 10 years has contributed to a global decrease in morbidity and mortality after surgical procedures [1-5]. What I find intriguing about these data is that the significant reduction in adverse events with the utilization of a simple surgical check list did not require a costly, high-tech solution but rather a simple, alm...

Soap Gets in Your Eyes

We present a previously unreported series of five cases of acute angle closure glaucoma associated with watching the Australia soap opera "Neighbours". Two cases were bilateral and associated with watching two episodes of "Neighbours" on the same day. The pathogenesis, and possible role of watching soap operas in the causation of primary angle closure glaucoma is discussed.