Editorial: Big Science: Individual hopes, collective risks

small science , big hopes

A images of tumor cells being vaporized in beams of colorful light, a video produced by the National Cancer Institute proclaims, “the science is at our fingertips.” The science being referred to, which is 80,000 times smaller than the breadth of a single ridge of skin on a human fingertip, is cancer nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, the study of science on a level the width of ten hydrogen atoms,...

Editorial - Marketing Science and Big Data

Analysing the risks of individual and collective intentionality

Editorial Collective

This paper reports the findings of a small study undertaken in Scotland and England. The Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP) and Lucid Adult Dyslexia Screening (LADS) were used to interview a small sample of 50 drug treatment service users. Half of the sample were residing in a therapeutic community (TC), whilst the other half were attending a community drug project and, almost exclusively, were r...

Porous metal augments: big hopes for big holes.

The majority of acetabular defects can be reconstructed with a hemispherical acetabular component alone. However, severe bone loss encountered at the time of revision acetabular surgery can result in compromised initial fixation leading to component micromotion, failure of bone ingrowth, and mechanical failure. Porous acetabular augments offer a potential solution to enhance initial component f...