Consumer demands for high-quality foods with ‘‘fresh-like’’ characteristics that require only a minimum amount of effort and time for preparation has led to the introduction of convenience foods preserved by mild treatments. Non-thermal methods allow the processing of foods below temperatures used during thermal pasteurisation, so flavours, essential nutrients, and vitamins undergo minimal or n...

The intrinsic properties of antibodies has resulted in them becoming widely exploited as tools in both basic research and the treatment of human disease. This, especially the latter, has been made possible through our increased understanding of antibody structure. The sequences of thousands of antibodies has been determined, and as an early example of the use of bioinformatics, the mechanism by...

Many body parts, personal characteristics and imaging methods have been suggested and used for biometrics systems: fingers, hands, feet, faces, eyes, ears, teeth, veins, voices, signatures, typing styles and gaits. Literature contains a wide range of techniques occupying a large number of implemented algorithms regarding biometrics. In this paper we will introduce the latest improvements on bio...

THE Emerging Technologies Subcommittee was initiated in 2005 and reorganized as an official subcommittee of the Technology Assessment Committee of the Society of Interventional Radiology in 2007. Recognizing that research and development plays a vital role in the success of any technologydriven enterprise, one of our principle goals is to encourage and facilitate dissemination of medical resear...

E-learning offers a tremendous amount of new features, including time and location independent studying, consolidation of a bundle of learning resources over the Internet, and presentation of e-learning content in various media types. These benefits significantly improve the effectiveness of learning for e-learning users. Hence, many institutions or organizations have already adopted or had a t...

Several emerging or disruptive technologies can be identified that might, at some point in the future, displace established laboratory medicine technologies and practices. These include increased automation in the form of robots, 3-D printing, technology convergence (e.g., plug-in glucose meters for smart phones), new point-of-care technologies (e.g., contact lenses with sensors, digital and wi...

THE Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) recognizes that research and development of new techniques and therapies is vital for the continued success of interventional radiology and medicine as a whole. Dissemination of knowledge of groundbreaking information to potential researchers in interventional radiology is clearly a critical part of this process. Consequently, in 2005, the SIR Opera...