Editorial II: Solid as a ROC

Editorial II- EN.pmd

The SYNTAX trial, presented in the congresses of the European Society of Cardiology in Munich, Germany and the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2008, is the first study to compare the clinical results of the best technology of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) using pharmacological stents (paclitaxel-eluding stent – Taxus, Boston Scientific...

Guest editorial: wideband CDMA II

M OBILE communications services are penetrating our society at an explosive rate. The major services that the second-generation mobile systems provide are limited to basic services (e.g., voice and low-bit rate data). We have entered the 21st century, when demands for a variety of wideband services (e.g., high-speed Internet access and the video/high-quality images transmission) will continue t...

Editorial: Architecture as a Communicative Medium

Environmental psychology categorizes “physical environment” as “typically neutral,” only coming into selfconscious awareness when individuals form stable and enduring representations of it [1]. We see this manifest in the real world when the steeple of a church is able to communicate that it is a place for reflection and religious gathering; the bricks and ivy of Harvard Yard signifies years of...

Editorial: Metabolism As a Therapeutic Target

Editorial: Brain Injury as a Neurodegenerative Disorder

The acute stage of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) entails the rapid unfolding of pathophysiological processes secondary to biomechanical damage that eventually stabilize, typically leaving a combination of focal damage (visible as encephalomalacia) and more widespread lesions, both to the white matter (known as traumatic axonal injury) and to the microvasculature of the brain (Pov...