BACKGROUND As genomics becomes increasingly relevant to medicine, medical informatics and bioinformatics are gradually converging into a larger field that we call computational biomedicine. OBJECTIVES Developing a computational framework that is common to the different disciplines that compose computational biomedicine will be a major enabler of the further development and integration of this...

Rights: © 2013 SAGE Publications. This is the post print version of the following article: Kankaanranta, Anne & Lu, W. 2013. The Evolution of English as the Business Lingua Franca: Signs of Convergence in Chinese and Finnish Professional Communication. Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Volume 27, Issue 3. 288-307. ISSN 1050-6519 (printed). DOI: 10.1177/1050651913479919, which has...

We propose substantive universals in the relationship between social evolution and language change. Social anthropologists have categorized societies into roughly four broad types by social organization: bands, tribes, chiefdoms and states. This classification is evolutionary in the sense that the society types arose in human history in the sequence given above. We compare these society types t...

F or better or worse, English (with its many words annexed from Latin and other languages) is today's lingua franca in the medical and life sciences. It is nearly impossible to be a successful medical or life scientist without basic skills to read and communicate in English. There are, however, many other potential consumers of medical and scientifi c research results—health-care professionals,...

Braz J Cardiovasc Surg | Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc year to complete its 30th birthday, the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS) brings great news to its readers. As I advanced in the last edition, from now on the journal will be published only in English. This covers not only articles, but all content, from editorial to the ads. We are taking a historic step towards increasing our ...

Knowledge has always been a loyal company to men throughout his long journey in this world. Aristotle was the very first name to attempt to define it in the realm of philosophy. For this purpose, he categorized knowledge into three: Episteme (scientific), Techne (Skill and crafts) and Phronesis (Wisdom). Yet, a lot of water has flowed beneath the bridge since then and this original definition o...

1. The language and its speakers 1.1. Sociohistorical background Saramaccan is an Atlantic creole spoken primarily in Suriname, though there are also speakers in French Guiana as well as a substantial diaspora population in the Netherlands. The fifteenth edition of the Ethnologue estimates that there are about 26,000 speakers of the languages. It is a maroon creole—that is, a creole spoken by d...

ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination) has rapidly evolved over the past two decades, creating a unique interdisciplinary interface between medicinal chemists, biologists, formulators, toxicologists, clinicians, and regulators across industries, but has advanced most rapidly in the pharmaceutical industry. The implementation of ADME profiling of drug candidates, in conjunction...

There are problems about the limitations of medical skills, both generally and in the individual case. In sport every coach and athlete is almost uninterested in present knowledge and its limits. The coach only starts looking for new aids at the borders of the present knowledge. Therefore, the doctor is in the land of speculation, risk, research and new ground, new theory and new fact. In pract...

Like the first conference, held in 2002, on Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics (www.sofg.org), the second SOFG meeting brought together computer scientists, ontologists and biomedical scientists in Philadelphia to examine the state of the art in ontology technology, development and emerging standards for biomedicine. Briefly, an ontology is a means of formalizing knowledge about a...