We Still Need New Ideas

ROMA Do we still need new Alias Analyses ?

Alias analysis is one of the most used techniques that aim to optimize languages with pointers. It is no surprise that this topic has received much attention in many fields including compilation and program verification. However, despite all this attention, a deep study of its state-of-the art shows that it is not handled satisfactorily, by far. In this paper we demonstrate that, although many ...

Hepatitis A - Do we still need new vaccines?

We still need to operate at night!

INTRODUCTION In the past the National Confidential Enquiry into Peri-operative deaths (NCEPOD) have advocated a reduction in non-essential night-time operating in NHS hospitals. In this study a retrospective analysis of the emergency general surgical operative workload at a London Teaching centre was performed. METHODS All general surgical and vascular emergency operations recorded prospectiv...

Yes , we still need Universal Grammar

In a recent paper [Lidz, J., Gleitman, H., & Gleitman, L. (2003). Understanding how input matters: Verb learning and the footprint of universal grammar. Cognition, 87, 151–178], we provided crosslinguistic evidence in favor of the following linked assertions: (i) Verb argument structure is a correlate of verb meaning; (ii) However, argument structure is not directly available to learners as a c...

Do we still need organic nitrates?

rganic nitrates are still quite frequently used for the reatment of acute and chronic angina, and acute and hronic congestive heart failure. When given acutely, their ffectiveness is undisputable; however, their long-term effiacy is substantially limited due to the development of olerance (1) and the induction of endothelial dysfunction (2), parameter that has prognostic significance in patient...