mortality between patients with and without myocardial infarction (MI) after successful intervention could still be clinically meaningful. But we must reject the other criticisms of Dr. Ioannidis and colleagues regarding the limitations of our study. The inferences are not based on a small number of unsuccessful procedures, but on an analysis of 5,850 patients with over 100 deaths, for which an...

I. The Problem of Cooperation A. Three Unusual Features of Human Societies Human societies exhibit cooperation, coordination, and division of labor, three features that place them at striking variance with most animals. Cooperation involves individuals doing something for the common benefit of everyone in a social group, as when soldiers defend a whole nation against its enemies. Coordination i...

This paper presents arguments for two claims. First, post-persons, beings with a moral status superior to that of mere persons, are possible. Second, it would be bad to create such beings. Actions that risk bringing them into existence should be avoided. According to Allen Buchanan, it is possible to enhance moral status up to the level of personhood. But attempts to improve status beyond that ...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems attract a high attention and open source software does it as well. The question is then if, and if so, when do open source ERP systems take off. The paper describes the status of open source ERP systems. Based on literature review of ERP system selection criteria based on Web of Science articles, it discusses reported reasons for choosing open source o...

In this paper, we describe the accomplishments of the initial phase of the Human Genome Project, with particular attention to the progress made toward achieving the defined goals for constructing genetic and physical maps of the human genome and determining the sequence of human DNA, identifying the complete set of human genes, and analyzing the need for adequate policies for using the informat...

co-organized by Bartt lomiej Grychtol, of the Fraunhofer Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology in Mannheim, Germany. A new award for best student paper was presented to Robert Winkler (Winkler et al 2014), and runner-up award to Melody Dodd (Dodd and Mueller 2014). This continues the tradition of successful conferences on biomedical applications of electrical impedance tomo...

Imagine having such poor vision that you have to rely on your toddler to ‘tell mummy when the big red bus comes’. This patient had had diabetes for most of her life and it had damaged most of her body. I felt sad but I also felt angry. How could this have happened? Of course, diabetes care cannot prevent complications in every patient, but surely we could prevent much of the tissue damage that ...