When most people hear the words affordable housing, they picture old-style urban public housing with apartments stacked end-to-end, replete with graffiti and shadylooking characters, unkempt and marked by a general malaise. Nothing seems healthy about it. But today’s affordable housing is different. Successful projects are well-designed, built to a reasonable scale, and have landscaping and ame...

At a recent demonstration by health care staff in Leeds, the banner held by three specialist rheumatology nurses read 'People with arthritis need staff who understand it – cuts are causing chaos'. So what has happened that has caused these normally calm and hardworking nurses to protest so vociferously? As is the case with many specialist nurses, their posts are under threat. This is rather per...

Modern China should be considered as an unique experiment and great world project of human civilization, effectively a co-product the Communist Party (CPC) West. The centuries-old concept free-market economy fell on fertile ground hardworking Chinese people in short historical period since beginning reform has finally bore fruit. Globalization digitalization have greatly helped to expand around...

The Abridged Big Five-Dimensional Circumple~ (ABSC; Hofstee, de Raad, & Goldberg, 1992) was used to locate consensus across different conceptualizations of the "Big Five" or Five-Factor ModeL Trait rating data from instruments representing four different versions of the Big Five (Goldberg, 1992; Hogan & Johnson, 1981; McCrae & Costa, 1985; Norman, 1963) were subjected to separate ABSC analyses ...

To hear Tom Cech tell it, he came by his prodigious success — Nobel Prize at 41, presidency of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) this year at 52 — thanks to lots of help from his friends. His 1982 discovery that RNA could behave like an enzyme and splice itself led to the 1989 Nobel in chemistry, which he shared with Sidney Altman. But he says he stumbled into the RNA World — then a sm...

At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR) in February 1995, the decision was taken to develop a regional respiratory journal in recognition of the perceived need to expand the activities of the APSR and cater for the broad educational requirements of its members. Twelve months later, in March 1996 Volume 1, Issue 1 appeared under the title “Res...

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Judging for the 2013 International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) Junior Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics was undertaken by a panel of six experts, selected by the IPA executive, which I had the honor to chair. All three award-winning papers appear in this issue of International Psychogeriatrics immediately following this guest editorial. I am confident that, like their many predecessors ...

.......My current position involves lots of interaction with people writing software. Unlike hardware design, where performance is a key criterion of design (and often the key criterion), performance is often an afterthought in software, if a thought at all. In addition, there seems to be little effective communication between people in software and hardware—despite such communication being hai...

S cientists of all stripes are failing miserably at one of the most important parts of our job—communication. On November 8, 2016, millions of Americans elected a man who denies human-caused climate change, and, in doing so, they voted against facts and against science. Donald Trump has vowed to withdraw from the international climate treaty negotiated last year in Paris, and says that once he ...