All That Glitters Is Not Gold, But Is It Diamond?

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

As the leading employer of nurse expert witnesses, I welcome the work the RCN is doing to improve the standard of this service. Performance in the witness box not only reflects and exposes an individual's credibility, but also publicly demonstrates the professionalism of nurses in general.

Not all that glitters is gold

Type-2 clones are duplicated passages of source code that have identical sequences of tokens (whitespace and comments are ignored) except for the textual representation of identifiers and literals—parameters. Commonly, type-2 clones are detected by simply abstracting from the parameters’ textual representation. This normalization, however, frequently results in similar but otherwise unrelated c...

All that Glitters Is Gold !

Levosimendan in Cardiac Surgery: Is it all Gold that Glitters?

Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are becoming older and with greater comorbidities, carrying an increased risk for perioperative complications which result in higher mortality and higher costs for the health care service [1]. One of the most demanding complications, in terms of morbidity and costs, is the low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS), which occurs in 10-15% of patients undergoing cardi...