Chagas Disease Has Now Gone Global

Chagas Disease Has Now Gone Global

1 Department of Pathology (Division of Parasitology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, 2 Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Disease), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, 3 Global Health Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, 4 Jacobi Medical Cen...

Managing Open Systems Now that the Glass-house Has Gone

Knowledge reuse through networks of large KBS p. 13 Expressing temporal behaviour with extended ECA rules p. 23 Temporal databases: an event-oriented approach p. 38 Object comprehensions: a query notation for object-oriented databases p. 55 Expressivity of typed logic paradigms for object-oriented databases p. 73 Algebraic computation of the weak well-founded model for general deductive databas...

Coronavirus: Where Has All the Health Economics Gone?

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...

Has the manual gone mental?

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), to be published in May, will include highly controversial changes. Some diagnoses have been broadened to include a range of behaviours hitherto considered normal. As the coverage of mental disorder diagnoses increases, is there any space left for normal biological variability in human behaviour? Michael Gros...

Has Goodwill Accounting Gone Bad?