In a world of increasing emphasis on aesthetics and beauty, the tooth form, colour appearance has taken significant importance in overall makeover that many patients seek as part their quest for beauty youthfulness. Common concerns among relate to teeth. This dissatisfaction led an increased desire treatments improve dental aesthetics, including bleaching, which is conservative viable option at...

This issue's Recently published papers commentary considers the popular and muddy waters of glycaemic control, stops briefly to ponder the incidence of pulmonary embolus in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, promotes novel studies in the areas of traumatic brain injury and extracorporeal circuits, and rounds off with a potentially dogma-challenging study in cardiac ar...

This paper analyzes the bibliographic references made by all papers published by ACM in 2006. Both an automatic classification of all references and a human classification of a random sample of them resulted that around 40% of the references are to conference proceedings papers, around 30% are to journal papers, and around 8% are to books. Among the other types of documents, standards and RFC c...

Recent papers discussed include a positive trial of early tracheostomy, two negative studies of targeted noninvasive ventilation, the long awaited results of the high versus low positive endexpiratory pressure Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Clinical Trial Network trial and a simple but illuminating study into prognostic markers and end-points of resucitation.

The management of the obese patient in intensive care is fraught with difficulty, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. Two recent studies add to the growing evidence that the obese patient is not significantly disadvantaged in terms of outcome following intensive care admission. Another study highlights the increasing burden of end-stage renal disease on intensive care unit resource...

This paper proposes a formalism for the Trust requirements modeling framework, which can be used as a means of studying the trustworthiness of serviceoriented environments. We argue that a modeling framework, representing explicitly the underlying assumptions, essential factors, and reasoning rules about Trust, can not only describe the problem domain but also be reasoned formally. This model o...