Curbing Tregs’ (Lack of) Enthusiasm

Curbing Inflammation

1 Edmund Cohen Laboratory for Vascular Research, The University of The West Indies, Bridgetown BB11115, Barbados 2 Rheumatology Research Group, School of Immunity & Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK 3 Laboratory of Cardiovascular and Endothelial Function, Department of Surgery and Anatomy, Ribeirão Preto Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, 900 Sao Paulo, SP, ...

Enthusiasm: it's catching.

Curbing Android Permission Creep

The Android platform has about 130 application level permissions that govern access to resources. The determination of which permissions to request is left solely to the application developer. Users are prompted to approve all application permissions at install time, and permissions are silently enforced at execution time. Although many applications make use of a wide range of permissions, we h...

On Curbing Virus Propagation

Let A and B be two sets of computers (not necessarily inanimate). Each computer in A needs to interact once with each computer in B. The order of interaction is not speciied. Each computer might be infected by a virus, hence interactions are carried out using interfaces. Conceptually, an interface has two sides and no virus can move from one side of an interface to the other. This allows for po...

Breaking the Wave of Enthusiasm?

The natural history of all substantial innovative medical procedures generally follows the same archetype. A new, potentially revolutionary treatment approach for a certain disease is introduced and initial first-in-men, feasibility, and safety studies are conducted by expert operators in highly specialized centers and selected patients. Given promising initial results, this triggers a wave of ...