V iruses and viral diseases have been at the center of science, agriculture, and medicine for millennia, and some of our greatest challenges and triumphs have involved virology. Smallpox is a prime example. This greatest killer of humankind changed the course of history during the European conquest of the New World and is also the only disease ever eradicated. This remarkable achievement began ...

When quoting some part of a document authors usually cut and paste the relevant content into the new document. Thereby the connection between this selected part and the original document is lost. Transclusions – first mentioned in 1960 by Ted Nelson – address this problem of ’lost context’. With transclusions it is possible to store information about the original document and the exact position...

United States is in the midst of an epidemic of obesity. Children and adults alike are increasing in girth at rapid rates. In the past four decades, the prevalence of childhood overweight, characterized by a body mass index greater than the norm for the 85th percentile, has risen by nearly 4-fold and continues to rise with each year (Ogden et al. 2002). Fifteen percent of children today are ove...

Immune (or idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is commonly encountered by the practicing hematologist. Clinical management decisions have traditionally been guided by individual training and past experience. Input from the literature has been more from observational reports of case series than from scientific results of hypothesis-driven research. Practice guidelines and several surveys ...

Although several medical technologies have been around since decades and are in the continuous process of development, some latest technologies are changing the way medicine would be practiced in the future. These technologies would allow medical practice from anywhere, any time and from any device. These include smart phones, Tablet PCs, Touch screens, digital ink, voice recognition, Electroni...

Management accounting has become a subject of hot debates over the last four decades and has undergone a major transformation. It is argued that traditional management accounting roles have either disappeared or been changed. The debate is based on the belief that roles of ‘Management Accountants’ require new forms of education and training,  with more emphasis on the practicality of the subjec...

T he excitement and challenges of computer design lie in meeting multiple design goals and constraints while riding the dual horses of fast-improving technology and changing application domains. The target market, available technology, and target applications impose the design goals and constraints. The architect attempts to build a machine that leverages particular technology and performs well...

range of subjects. This year’s offerings inanew technology...Retrospectiveassessments are undertaken in the hope of improving eluded a series of lectures entitled “In the ~ Year 2025: Forecasting for the Future,” ~ the anticipatory assessment of technologies emerging today and in the future.’ coordinated by two professional futurists: Joseph Coates. founder of a research company that specialize...