Bacteriophage ecology of fermented foods: anything new under the sun?

NAFLD: Is There Anything New under the Sun?

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an "umbrella" definition that encompasses a spectrum of histological liver changes ranging from simple steatosis to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with/without fibrosis, "cryptogenic" cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), occurring in a dysmetabolic milieu, though in the absence of excessive alcohol consumption and other competing etiolo...

Replicated Data Management in Mobile Environments: Anything New Under the Sun?

The mobile wireless computing environment of the future will contain large numbers of low powered palmtop machines. Replication will be an essential technique in this environment, providing data availability to the system. In a mobile environment it is important to have dynamic replicated data management algorithms that allow for instance copies to migrate from one site to another or for new co...

Something new under the sun

Innovation, long the preserve of technocratic elites, is becoming more open. This will be good for the world, argues Vijay Vaitheeswaran alent of 100 miles-per-gallon using alternative energy. The charitable arm of Mr Page's rm has already taken hybrid petrol electric vehicles, like the Toyota Prius, and turned them into even cleaner plug inn versions which can be topped up from an electric soc...

Malpractice: new under the sun?

In a quotation which opens the very first section of Kenneth Allen de Ville's magnificent work "Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America" [1], the author cites J.R. Weist's 1884 observation on the malpractice law suits of the time, that the "remedy of these evils in the profession involves many and grave problems in sociology which I cannot now stop to consider" [2]. He might well have...

Future of Fermented Foods