Commentary: Socioeconomic status and diabetes outcomes; what might we expect and why don't we find it?

What are we and what do we expect to become?

EDITORIAL What are we and what do we expect to become? ଝ ¿Qué somos y qué queremos ser? A major medical association needs a powerful, exciting, balanced, training medical journal, which is attractive to authors and readers, and which is also sustainable, so that it can endure. ActasUrológicasEspañolas, official journal of the Spanish Association of Urology and the American Urological Confederat...

Diabetes prevention and care: we know what to do, so why aren't we doing it?

Imagine having such poor vision that you have to rely on your toddler to ‘tell mummy when the big red bus comes’. This patient had had diabetes for most of her life and it had damaged most of her body. I felt sad but I also felt angry. How could this have happened? Of course, diabetes care cannot prevent complications in every patient, but surely we could prevent much of the tissue damage that ...

Workpractice Theory – What it is and Why we need it

This is an introduction to the panel “Workpractice Theory as Foundation for IS Research” on the ALOIS*2005 conference. It is also a position statement concerning workpractice theory. It describes the needs for a workpractice theory in information systems research. It describes briefly also the workpractice theory developed by Goldkuhl & Röstlinger. This is an example of a workpractice theory to...

Why We Need a Physically Embodied Turing Test and What It Might Look Like

machine was to be reduced to the problem of creating a thinking machine (Turing 1950). He observed, however, that such a goal was somewhat ill-defined: how was one to conclude whether or not a machine was thinking (like a human)? So Turing replaced the question with an operational notion of what it meant to think through his now famous Turing test. The details are well known to all of us in AI....

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?