Stopping Trouble before It Starts

Stopping breast cancer before it starts.

Chronic headache: stop the pain before it starts.

Familiarity with the risks associated with medication overuse and the importance of headache prophylaxis is key to easing your patient's pain.

It starts with you ... the volunteer administrator.

We know how important our profession is. Yet we are often frustrated in trying to communicate its significance to our bosses, our board chairs, our funders, the not-for-profit and government community and, even, our families and friends. How we cringe when someone says, "we ought to start a volunteer program" and turns to someone on staff and says, "in your spare time, won't you look after the ...

Green IT: Everything starts from the software

In this position paper we discuss the importance of Green IT as a new research field that investigates all the environmental and energy issues related to IT and information systems in general. In particular we focus on the energy consumption of software applications, which is amplified by all the above IT layers in a data center and thus is worth a greater attention. By adopting a top-down appr...

Defining psychology: is it worth the trouble?

Henrique's thoughtful effort (this issue) to define psychology suffers from at least three shortcomings: (a) "psychology" is almost certainly an inherently fuzzy concept that resists precise definition; (b) attempts to define psychology are likely to hamper rather than foster consilience across scientific disciplines; and (c) Henriques incorrectly diagnoses the cause of the scientist-practition...