Online reports

Web reports: critically appraising online resources

The Internet is an invaluable resource for critical care clinicians. However, the search for useful Internet resources can be frustrating and time-consuming. In this issue, Critical Care launches a new section entitled ‘Web Reports’, which will regularly provide critical appraisal of Internet resources that may be of interest to critical care health care workers.

New online-only Case Reports - May listing

Online Reports of Foodborne Illness Capture Foods Implicated in Official Foodborne Outbreak Reports

OBJECTIVE Traditional surveillance systems capture only a fraction of the estimated 48 million yearly cases of foodborne illness in the United States. We assessed whether foodservice reviews on Yelp.com (a business review site) can be used to support foodborne illness surveillance efforts. METHODS We obtained reviews from 2005 to 2012 of 5824 foodservice businesses closest to 29 colleges. Aft...

MATHEMATICAL ENGINEERING TECHNICAL REPORTS Online Minimization Knapsack Problem

In this paper, we address the online minimization knapsack problem, i. e., the items are given one by one over time and the goal is to minimize the total cost of items that covers a knapsack. We study the removable model, where it is allowed to remove old items from the knapsack in order to accept a new item. We obtain the following results. (i) We propose an 8-competitive deterministic algorit...

Acta E transforms from Structure Reports Online to Crystallographic Communications

At the start of the millennium, the IUCr decided to launch its first fully electronic journal, Structure Reports Online (Section E of Acta Crystallographica), with its founding Main Editors William Clegg (Newcastle, UK) and David Watson (Cambridge, UK). The first issue appeared on 1 January 2001 reporting crystal structure results across a wide range of inorganic, organic and metal-organic mate...