Accord renewed

Renewed Interest in Regenerative Medicine

On November 16, 2017, the US FDA announced a comprehensive policy framework for the development and oversight of regenerative medicine products, including novel cellular therapies. This risk-based framework includes a suite of guidance documents focusing on safety and effectiveness of these therapies, and reiterates FDA’s commitment to bring new effective therapies to patients as quickly and sa...

SUSY Les Houches Accord 2

The Supersymmetry Les Houches Accord (SLHA) [1] provides a universal set of conventions for conveying spectral and decay information for supersymmetry analysis problems in high energy physics. Here, we propose extensions of the conventions of the first SLHA to include various generalisations: the minimal supersymmetric standard model with violation of CP, R-parity, and flavour, as well as the s...

New Basel Capital Accord

Tuberculosis and HIV: renewed challenge.

HIV infection is responsible for an increased incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in several areas of the world (MC Raviglione et al. 1995 JAMA 276: 220-226). In general, active TB happens as a consequence of a recently acquired exogenous infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or of endogenous reactivation of old infection. In some regions, besides the increase of the incidence, an import...

Csound 6 : old code renewed

This paper describes the current status of the development of a new major version of Csound. We begin by introducing the software and its historical significance. We then detail the important aspects of Csound 5 and the motivation for version 6. Following, this we discuss the changes to the software that have already been implemented. The final section explores the expected developments prior t...