10 Years on – and 10 Questions for the Future

The future: cardiovascular medicine in 10 years.

In the last 10 years important developments have taken place in cardiovascular medicine, and it is necessary to consider these in order to understand fully what can be expected in the coming decade. Speaking to the Royal College of Physicians in London during 1944, Winston Churchill said “the more you can look back, the further you can look forward”. In the 1970s Julius Comroe, a physiologist a...

Microprocessors - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead

Informatics 10 Years Back , 10 Years Ahead

Interpretation is a theory of approximation of the be— havior of dynamic discrete systems such as the formal seman­ tics ofprograms. Since such behaviors can be characterized by fixpoints, the theory essentially provides constructive and ef— fective methods for fixpoint approximation and checking by abstraction. Non—conventionalapplications of abstract interpretation in— clude the design of hie...

Pfam 10 years on: 10 000 families and still growing

Classifications of proteins into groups of related sequences are in some respects like a periodic table for biology, allowing us to understand the underlying molecular biology of any organism. Pfam is a large collection of protein domains and families. Its scientific goal is to provide a complete and accurate classification of protein families and domains. The next release of the database will ...

Back to the future: 10 years of European health reforms.

The challenges facing European health systems have changed little over 30 years but the responses to them have. Policy ideas that emerged in some countries spread to others; however, the way policies were implemented and the impact they have had has been shaped by specific national contexts. Comparative policy analysis has evolved in response to this, moving away from simple classifications of ...