Information science beyond the border

Cross border E-Science and Research Partnership: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Media

  E-Science is a tool that helps scientists to store, interpret, analyze and make a network of their data, and it can play a critical role in different aspects of the scientific goals and research. This commentary, under the topic of Cross Border E-Science and Research Partnership: Bridging the Gap between Science and Media,[1] attempts to shed light on E-Science with emphasis on three importa...

The roots of Knowledge and Information science

Knowledge and Information science is rooted in philosophy and its branches are in sociology. This does not impair its interdisciplinary position. In Iran, the name of "LIS" has undergone a little change and called "knowledge & Information Science (KIS)". Through this change, the importance of philosophy in this discipline has reached its highest level. Knowledge science has a great relationship...

Reproductive Health Surveillance in the US-Mexico Border Region: Beyond the Border (and Into the Future)

This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) celebrates the completion of a highly innovative and bold reproductive health surveillance initiative: the Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project for Women’s Health (BMSCP). This project, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and made possible through binational institutional collaboration, met the challenge of obtain...

Beyond science: the salt debate.

Beyond science: the salt debate

Man is the only mammal that consumes large amounts of salt. It is also the only species in which hypertension occurs. Obviously there is a relation between these two facts. Indeed, the internist Professor Borst from Amsterdam put forward experimental proof for this notion. By expelling salt with (imperfect) diuretics, patients with even severe hypertension were cured. Later, in an exemplary exp...