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Why Another Cancer Journal?

Why do we need yet another cancer journal? An excellent question, of course, in light of the profusion of general as well as specialized cancer journals in recent times. An easy answer would simply be to say that this journal will be better than the rest; however a less glib (and probably more accurate) response is simply that there is currently an explosion of new techniques and approaches in ...

Why We Do Need Another Medical Journal…

The English word "health" comes from the Old English word hale, meaning "wholeness, a state of being and feeling whole, sound or well" [1]. Hale comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "kailo", meaning "whole, uninjured, of good omen". Kailo comes from the Proto-Germanic root "khalbas", meaning "something (un)divided". [...].

SICOT-J: Why another Orthopaedic Open Access journal?

Over the last few years, Orthopaedics has been inundated with Open Access journals, the continued quality and survivorship of which is uncertain. SICOT, the only international society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology has therefore decided to participate and take a lead in this rapidly evolving field. SICOT-J has now been launched. It is backed by an internationally renowned Editorial Board and ...

Yet Another Matcher

Discovering correspondences between schema elements is a crucial task for data integration. Most matching tools are semi-automatic, e.g. an expert must tune some parameters (thresholds, weights, etc.). They mainly use several methods to combine and aggregate similarity measures. However, their quality results often decrease when one requires to integrate a new similarity measure or when matchin...