HESS Opinions: How should a future water census address consumptive use? (And where can we substitute withdrawal data while we wait?)

Parasitic manipulation: where are we and where should we go?

Review Parasitic manipulation: where are we and where should we go? Frédéric Thomasa,∗, Shelley Adamob, Janice Moorec a Centre d’Etude sur le Polymorphisme des Micro-Organismes, GEMI/UMR CNRS-IRD 2724, Equipe: “Evolution des Systèmes Symbiotiques”, IRD, 911 Avenue Agropolis, B.P. 5045, 34032 Montpellier Cedex 1, France b Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada c Departme...

Future collapse: how optimistic should we be?

Prof. Kelly FRS is optimistic about the chances of avoiding a collapse, but sadly we find his arguments entirely unpersuasive. For example, have Malthus (or we) really been wrong about food security? Roughly 850 million people are seriously undernourished (lacking sufficient calories) today, and perhaps 2 billion are mal-nourished (lacking one or more essential nutrients) [1]. When Malthus live...

Verifying Security: Where We Are and Where We Should Go

Verification techniques are increasingly being applied to the area of computer security. However, they vary greatly in the tpyes of approaches and areas of security they investigate. In this paper, we attempt to systematize the current state of verification in security and provide guidance to where research effort could be most effectively be spent in the future.

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

We Can, but Should We?

We can, but should we? After recently reflecting upon our profession as pediatric critical care physicians , I concluded that this one complex question gets asked many times throughout the day – or at least it should. A recent report discussed an emerging paradigm in pediatric critical care medicine (1). With more and more chronic patients filling our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), perha...