Caught between hope and reality: how citizens reconcile ambitious dominant energy imaginaries with everyday service shortfalls

Personalized medicine: caught between hope, hype and the real world

Genomic and personalized medicine have become buzz phrases that pervade all fields of medicine. Rapid advances in "-omics" fields of research (chief of which are genomics, proteinomics, and epigenomics) over the last few years have allowed us to dissect the molecular signatures and functional pathways that underlie disease initiation and progression and to identify molecular profiles that help ...

Counselling the elderly between hope and reality.

In the Western world, nowadays, senior citizens (i.e. those ≥65 years) constitute ∼16% of the general population, a proportion predicted to increase to 23% in 2030 and >30% by 2050. The past decades have already witnessed significant changes in the demographic characteristics of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), mainly due to an increase in elderly patients over the age of 65 years ...

Icelandic Citizens' Everyday Life Health Information Behaviour

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How are citizens' public service choices supported in quasi-markets?

Many countries have introduced quasi-market reforms that enable citizens’ choice in education, healthcare, and other public services. The research question in this paper is the following: How canWeb-based decision support help citizens to make calculated public service choices in quasi-markets? In Section 3, the paper focuses on how decision support design helps citizens make such choices as th...

Everyday Virtual Reality