Improving Nuclear Security—One Summit at a Time

Diarrhea at the summit.

TGF signaling at the summit

Ligands belonging to the transforming growth factor (TGF) superfamily have emerged as major regulators of a wide variety of developmental events, ranging from the earliest steps in germ layer patterning of the pre-gastrula embryo to tissue healing, regeneration and homeostasis in the adult. Recently, Caroline Hill and Bob Lechleider organized the third in a bi-annual series of FASEB meetings on...

Improving Efficiency by Weaving at Run-time

Since the appearance of Java several tools have been developed to allow making dynamic changes in Java programs. In general, these tools trades the flexibility for the efficiency of the program. In this paper I present RtJAC, an aspect-oriented framework for Java based on JAC [3], which makes possible to create aspects, specify their join points and weave them into an application, all at run-ti...

Improving Web Services Performance, One Step at a Time

Web Services were designed for Enterprise systems. They are a flexible but complex technology, with numerous performance pitfalls for developers. They also have significant overhead when compared with platform-specific solutions (e.g. Java RMI). The end solutions have to combine (virtualized) platform, application framework, and application-specific code. As a result of this complexity, the per...

Improving the system: One action at a time.

In a 2013 televised address the Chief of the Australian Army, Lt. Gen. David Morrison, said ‘The standard you walk past is the standard you accept’. While Morrison was talking about unacceptable behaviour in the Australian Army at the time, equally there are messages here for those who are involved in managing and leading health services. What is the standard of healthcare expected in Australia...