Joint Commitment: How We Make the Social World

How do we make Scholarship Semantic?

I am grateful for the opportunity to comment on the opportunities and challenges of using semantic approaches in scholarly publishing. (“Scholarship” covers many fields of endeavour and should extend beyond the ivory tower of academia.) We were asked to provide crazy ideas and a polemic, where arguments are backed by personal conviction as much as proven experience. The primary aim of a polemic...

How we make cell therapy in Italy

In the 21st century scenario, new therapeutic tools are needed to take up the social and medical challenge posed by the more and more frequent degenerative disorders and by the aging of population. The recent category of advanced therapy medicinal products has been created to comprise cellular, gene therapy, and tissue engineered products, as a new class of drugs. Their manufacture requires the...

Commentary: how can we make diagnosis safer?.

Diagnostic errors are common and are a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction and malpractice suits. Because of its traditional heavy reliance on memory and lack of standardization, the diagnostic process is particularly error prone. A study by Zwaan and colleagues on diagnostic failures in treating dyspneic patients makes several important contributions: examining the process behind the diag...

How can we make them work ?

How fast can we make interpreted Python?

Python is a popular dynamic language with a large part of its appeal coming from powerful libraries and extension modules. These augment the language and make it a productive environment for a wide variety of tasks, ranging from web development (Django) to numerical analysis (NumPy). Unfortunately, Python’s performance is quite poor when compared to modern implementations of languages such as L...