Spade and Screen

Calling a spade a spade: meaningful definitions of health conditions.

This issue of the Bulletin features an article on a new definition of “drowning” (1). Most of the time we intuitively know what drowning is until someone asks us explicitly to define it. In scientific research, meaningful definitions are essential for comparability and reproducibility. Drowning has been listed as the second leading cause of death from unintentional injury in WHO reports, after ...

Ocular surface squamous neoplasia: Are we calling a spade a spade?

Proposed by Lee and Hirst, the phrase ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) includes the clinical continuum of mild, moderate, and severe dysplasia, carcinoma in situ, and invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).[1] It is important to understand that dysplasia and carcinoma in situ, together constituting conjunctival intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), are premalignant by definition, and SCC is ...

Scaling SPADE to "Big Provenance"

Provenance middleware (such as SPADE) lets individuals and applications use a common framework for reporting, storing, and querying records that characterize the history of computational processes and resulting data artifacts. Previous efforts have addressed a range of issues, from instrumentation techniques to applications in the domains of scientific reproducibility and data security. Here we...

Project : Architecture Exploration (spade 2)

PROJECT : Architecture Exploration (SPADE 2) REPORT : 1 SUBJECT : State of the Art in the Fields of System Specification and Architecture Exploration DATE : June 19th, 2001 ABSTRACT : In this report we present an overview of system level design methodologies and tools. 8 different tools and their underlying methodologies were analysed. We found that existing tools are not mature enough to compl...

Supporting Cooperation in the SPADE-1 Environment