Prof. Hong Jian: dreams come true—stay true to yourself!

World Trauma Congress: when dreams come true

Trauma is a major public health problem worldwide. More than 5 million people die every year as a consequence of traumatic injuries. This disease does not distinguish between developed or underdeveloped countries; it is a major challenge to modern societies. In many instances, injuries occur due to their responsible actions such as drug abuse, drinking and driving, etc. Interpersonal violence, ...

Dreams come true: the soul and spirit of orthopaedics

The Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) for 2014 will be held on May 22–25, at Kobe International Convention Center and Kobe Portpia Hotel. The main theme of this congress is ‘Dreams come true: the soul and spirit of orthopaedics,’ as seen in the title of this editorial. We all have dreams in our own professional careers. It is certainly not easy to make a dream come tr...

Making Doug’s Dream Come True:

Collaboratories consisting of systems of information tools are increasingly important as mediators of joint work in distributed groups. These systems should be constructed in a testbed development process. Such a process is far from trivial, and must be continuously improved. To aid in this improvement process, a tool context model is presented, in which the information system, work, design, an...

From oil to bioplastics, a dream come true?

Human overpopulation combined with the current lifestyle urges the rational, efficient and sustainable use of natural resources to produce environmentally friendly plastic materials such as polyhydroxyalkanoic acids (PHA), whose production/degradation cycle reduces undesirable wastes and emissions. In this issue Sabirova et al. (15) presents results of paramount importance: a PHA hyper-producer...

The time has come to promote true day surgery.