Clean energy transition—our urgent challenge: an editorial assay

Monitoring adherence to antiretroviral treatment in Brazil: an urgent challenge.

The aim of this study was to describe the effect of non-adherence on the main laboratory outcomes, TCD4+ lymphocyte count and viral load, routinely used to monitor patients initiating treatment according to three different approaches to measure adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Among 288 participants, 22.9%, 31.9% and 74.3% were considered non-adherent, according to medical charts, self-repo...

Aggregates Disclosure in Hidden Web Databases: an Urgent Challenge

Hidden web databases are widely prevalent on the Internet. Security issues specific to hidden databases, however, have been largely overlooked by the research community, possibly due to the (false) sense of security provided by the restrictive access (i.e., web interface) to such databases. We argue that an urgent challenge facing today’s hidden databases is the disclosure of sensitive aggregat...

Guest Editorial Meeting the challenge

It is a great privilege to be asked to contribute some comments to this special issue of JIS. I have enjoyed reading these papers, and seeing how much our field has moved on since the Journal of Documentation attempted a similar historical survey in 1994 [1], just as the internet was ‘taking off’. My first thoughts were of Jason Farradane, who played such a big part in founding the Institute of...

Global clean energy in 2017.

uring the November 2016 Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh, much talk centered on implementation of the political commitments made in Paris in 2015. Governments are now focused on putting their words into action as they prepare for the first official stocktake in 2018. Innovation will have an essential role to play. In November 2015, 20 nations, including the United Kingdom, launched a new ...

Materials for Clean Energy Conversion