New drug targets for chronic cough: research you can literally sink your teeth into!

New drug targets for chronic cough: research you can literally sink your teeth into!

Affiliations: Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, King’s Health Partners, London, UK. Dept of Respiratory Medicine, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Health Partners, London, UK. Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, School of Transplantation, Immun...

Can you Trust your Data?

A new program analysis is presented, and two compile time methods for this analysis are given. The analysis attempts to answer the question: “Given some trustworthy and some untrustworthy input, can we trust the value of a given variable after execution of some code”. The analyses are based on an abstract interpretation framework and a constraint generation framework respectively. The analyses ...

Ask Not What Your SOA Can Do For You --- Ask What You Can Do For Your SOA!

Over the last few articles in JOT, I have focused on discussing the maturity of SOA, and the ever increasing need for a set of best practices to handle the complexities inherent in successfully implementing and realizing an enterprise architecture. As the enteprises' SOA matures, best practices are needed at many different levels encompassing a wide range of artifacts that need to target the ap...

Ask Not What Your Text Can do For You. Ask What You Can do For Your Text (a Dictionary’s perspective)

Ask not what your REB can do for you; ask what you can do for your REB.

Research ethics boards (REBs) are perhaps the most unloved component of the research endeavour. In this issue of Canadian Family Physician, Kotecha and colleagues (page 1165)1 join a chorus of voices decrying current governance of research by institutional REBs. In their article they describe the experiences of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network in securing ethics approval....