Editorial: Don't despair, be inspired

Guest editorial bio-inspired networking

521 echnology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global Internet scale down to micro-and nano-devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally distributed and unsupervised way. fundamental research challeng...

Guest editorial: bio-inspired information hiding

Welcome to this Special Issue on Bio-Inspired Information Hiding. Research in information hiding started in the early 1990s. With the widespread use of Internet and wireless networks, and the blooming growth in consumer electronic devices and advances inmultimedia compression techniques, multimedia streams are easily acquired nowadays. Hence, how to achieve copyright protection of the above-men...

Editorial: New Generation of Psychotherapies Inspired by Cognitive Neuroscience Development: Emergence of Neurocognitive Therapies

Fisheries: hope or despair?

Recent work suggesting that fisheries depletions have turned the corner is misplaced because analysis was based largely on fisheries from better-managed developed-world fisheries. Some indicators of status show improvements in the minority of fisheries subjected to formal assessment. Other indicators, such as trophic level and catch time series, have been controversial. Nevertheless, several de...

Despair on disparities.

In this issue of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Sokka et al (see page 1666), by analysing the data from the Quantitative Standard Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis (QUEST-RA) cohort, with over 6000 patients from 25 countries, warn us of possible disparities in the health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. This international team of researchers found a clear association between gross dom...