A Dialogue Among Patients, Families, and Professionals--Editor's Introduction

Publication: a dialogue between authors and editors.

Soon after we took over as editors of Sexually Transmitted Infections in 2003 we were alerted by a reader to a potential overlap of content between material published in Sexually Transmitted Infections and in The Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. We investigated this and took our concerns to The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We subsequently published a Notice of...

Dialogue Systems as Proof Editors

This paper shows how a dialogue system for information-seeking dialogues can be implemented in a type-theory-based syntax editor, originally developed for editing mathematical proofs. The implementation gives a simple logical metatheory to such dialogue systems and also suggests new functions to them, e.g. a local undo operation. The method developed provides a logically based declarative way o...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Introduction from the Editors

Recent evidence suggests that the prevalence of various allergic conditions such as allergic rhinitis, food allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is on the rise [1-3]. Over the last decade, there have been significant advances in our current understanding of these as well as other common allergic and immunological diseases. The purpose of this supplement entitled, A Practical Guide for All...