Contrast echocardiography and medical economics: looking into the crystal ball

Looking into the crystal ball

Looking into the Crystal Ball: From Transistors to the Smart Earth

h IN 2003 AT the 40th DAC keynote and then in [1], the history of Electronic Design Automation was summarized following Giovan Battista Vico, the first philosopher who analyzed history and its patterns. Vico’s fundamental contribution was that history repeats itself with a regular pattern. He identified three phases: The age of gods, the age of heroes and the age of men. The age of gods is char...

Looking Into the Crystal Ball: Predicting Non-response to Ursodeoxycholic Acid in Primary Biliary Cholangitis

Primary biliary cholangitis, formerly designated primary biliary cir-rhosis, represents a model cholestatic liver disease characterized by chronic, progressive immune-mediated bile duct destruction mainly affecting middle-aged women. Though its distinct pathogenesis remains to be fully defined, complex environmental-host immunogenic interactions have been highlighted by large-scale genome-wide ...

A Look Into the 4G Crystal Ball

The time for reflections and visions about the Fourth Generation of Wireless Mobile Communication Systems (4G) is getting closer to the X hour, therefore the research community has to finally declare how 4G will really look like. Besides the no-boundaries visions, in this paper we have a look into the 4G crystal ball, attempting to define the forthcoming system fusing both the user and the tech...

Superantigens: Gazing into the crystal ball

The recently determined crystal structures of complexes between bacterial toxin 'superantigens' and MHC class II molecules shed light on the nature of the interactions between these two molecules.