Dengue epidemic: What can we offer?

IAPT and Long Term Medical Conditions: What Can We Offer?

BACKGROUND The proposal of a 4-year plan to integrate treatment of people with long term medical conditions (LTCs) into the IAPT service (Department of Health, 2011) seeks for research to understand the effectiveness of IAPT interventions for this patient group. AIM The aim of this service development pilot work was to develop an intervention that is effective for people with Type 2 Diabetes ...

Congestive heart failure: what can we offer our patients?

What can biology really offer computer security?

Biological systems can offer computer security insights into how to engineer more effective artificial systems. While the authors believe this statement to be fundamentally true, it is unhelpfully vague what insights exactly? This paper argues that, in the light of recent paradigm shifts in a number of fields, a key insight biology can give us is a number of concrete engineering principles, in ...

TEACHING DIVERSITY: What Can History Offer?

To highlight how historical scholarship can be used to teach students about a range of topics in psychology, I have chosen three sample articles from the journal History of Psychology that address gender, race/ethnicity, and the intersection of sexuality and disability in historical perspective. I outline how these articles can be incorporated into courses across the curriculum to deepen studen...

What can artificial life offer ecology?

Artificial life is the simulation and synthesis of living systems, and ALife models show how interactions between simple entities give rise to complex effects. Ecology is the study of the distribution and abundance of organisms, and ecological modelling involves fitting a linear model to a large data set and using that model to identify key causal factors at work in a complex ecosystem. We are ...