A Future Look

A Look toward the Future

Diabetes: a look to the future.

Diabetes was seriously underrated as a threat to global public health until very recently. However, the situation is now changing and the world can no longer ignore the inexorable rise in prevalence of type 2 diabetes in particular. A collection of Reviews in The Lancet and The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, released to coincide with the World Diabetes Congress 2013 in Melbourne, VIC, Austral...

Science Education: A Look into the Future

This paper presents the author’s thoughts about some of the problems faced by current science curricula. These relate, in the main, to a separation of school science from the practice of professional science and to a lack of investigations in school science. He suggests ways in which these could be remedied by taking a more inclusive, integrated approach to the teaching of the various science s...

New developments: a look to the future.

Inflammatory cytokines plus the human immunodeficiency virus Tat protein apparently trigger the development of early Kaposi's sarcoma. Activated spindle cells provide a self-perpetuating, autocrine-supported mechanism for further development of hyperplastic lesions. In more advanced stages, a true neoplastic process may develop.

Linguistic Phonetics: A Look into the Future

This paper exemplifies the need for collecting extensive experimental data on the languagedependent articulatory and acoustic characteristics of vowels and consonants. It reports data on constriction location for (alveolo)palatal consonants, and on the F2 frequency for allophonic realizations of different varieties of /l/, in several language groups.