We love to talk about the unintended consequences of others’ technological innovations. document air pollution and traffic congestion accompanying automobile dependence, surrender personal privacy in order gain online convenience, political violence abetted by social media algorithms optimized generate advertising revenue.

In this month's editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors discuss the challenges of addressing a growing population with Alzheimer disease and dementia amidst disappointing news from the pharmaceutical industry.

BACKGROUND: Nurses as health workers at the frontline have major challenges in dealing with COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic can cause risk of psychological changes nurses maintaining quality public services. AIM: This study aims to explore nurses’ experiences through their when giving treatment patients. DESIGN AND METHOD: qualitative research employed a phenomenological approach. Purposive sam...

The travel agency industry is currently experiencing profound changes such as commission caps and cuts, increased popularity of online travel agents, and the emergence of automated travel management systems. These developments forced many travel agents to exit the market or to surrender to lower profitability. This case study examines how a mega-agency responded to these threats, the obstacles ...

article looks at definitions of peace from a cultural studies perspective, suggesting that binary oppositions governing such fields as peace and war, individual and society, tradition and modernity offer few grounds for progress towards peace. The article suggests instead that the utopian principle of hope can be recruited for a culture of peace based on the surrender to difference, at a subjec...

When embarking on such an uncertain project as the creation of a new journal in what is not exactly a recognized academic field — a print journal, no less, for the discussion of systems for electronic text markup — it is difficult to avoid the temptation to explain the rationale and goals of the journal. We have neither avoided nor attempted to resist that temptation, and this essay is the resu...

We show how group discounts can be offered without forcing buyers to surrender their anonymity, as long as buyers can use their own computing devices (e.g. smartphone, tablet or computer) to perform a purchase. Specifically, we present a protocol for privacy-preserving group discounts. The protocol allows a group of buyers to prove how many they are without disclosing their identities. Coupled ...