Naturalism has replaced Christianity as the main religion of the Western world. Though the teaching that natural evolutionary processes can account of the origin of all living species has never been proven, that teaching is central to the philosophy that now dominates Western scholarly thinking. Even evangelicals have become less willing to defend the early chapters of Genesis against the encro...

Providers and users of chemical libraries must adopt quality and reporting standards to advance the impact of small-molecule high-throughput screening.

This paper presents an agent-based model to support the formation of Virtual Enterprises. The model proposes the main concepts of a Virtual Enterprise: goals, activities, roles, agents and skills and competencies. One of the main steps in the formation of a VE is the selection of partners. We believe that this step can be delegated to agents, where the agents represent the partners of a VE. Our...

As a reader of this journal you are probably a professional scientist with an interest in communicat­ ing the importance of what you do to the world at large. We share that interest, and advertise to journal­ ists the work we publish that we feel most likely to be of general interest, via press releases on the EurekAlert! website. This works very well, and papers in Current Biology are frequent...

Norway has the preconditions for world-class health services. They should enjoy the confidence of all social strata, be organised by the state and provide maximum benefit in exchange for the resources that the community invests in them. Everybody agrees to these general goals. The disagreement pertains to the means. The Minister of Health prescribes a steady course; we believe that a steady cou...

We all like to believe that our qualif icat ions determine whether we are invited for job interviews and that our performance dictates whether our employers think well of us. Obviously, employers are better of f if they hire the most qualif ied applicants. And of course, the goals of business and government goals are furthered when managers rate employees according to how well they perform thei...

While the tone of this paper is informal and tongue-incheek, we believe we raise two important issues in robotics and multi-modal interface research; namely, how crucial integration of multiple modes of communication are for adjustable autonomy, which in turn is crucial for having dinner with R2D2. Furthermore, we discuss how our multimodal interface to autonomous robots addresses these issues ...

Software Product Lines (SPL) and Agile practices have emerged as new paradigms for developing software. Both approaches share common goals; such as improving productivity, reducing time to market, decreasing development costs and increasing customer satisfaction. These common goals provide the motivation for this research. We believe that integrating Agile practices into SPL can bring a balance...

Although a Web search is typically regarded as a solitary activity, collaborative search approaches are becoming an increasingly relevant topic for HCI and distributed user interfaces (DUIs). Today’s collaborative search systems lack comprehensive search support that also involves preor post-search activities such as preparing for a search or making sense of search results. We believe that post...

BACKGROUND Residents are commonly involved in establishing goals of care for hospitalized patients. While education can improve the quality of these conversations, whether and how postgraduate training programs integrate such teaching into their curricula is not well established. The objective of this study was to characterize perceptions of current teaching and assessment of goals of care conv...