Editor's perspectives – November 2014

National Diabetes Month — November 2014

Rui Li, PhD1, Sundar S. Shrestha, PhD1, Ruth Lipman, PhD2, Nilka R. Burrows, MPH1, Leslie E. Kolb, MBA2, Stephanie Rutledge, PhD1 (Author affiliations at end of text) Diabetes is a complex chronic disease that requires active involvement of patients in its management (1). Diabetes selfmanagement education and training (DSMT), “the ongoing process of facilitating the knowledge, skill, and abilit...

National Epilepsy Awareness Month — November 2014

November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Epilepsy is a brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizures and affects an estimated 2.3 million adults and 450,000 children in the United States (1,2). Eighty-seven percent of parents of children with epilepsy have reported needing care coordination, and of these, 45% had unmet needs (3). Community-based care coordination can improve outcomes...

Internet - Draft TCP - aNCR November 2014

This document specifies an adaptive Non-Congestion Robustness (aNCR) mechanism for TCP. In the absence of explicit congestion notification from the network, TCP uses only packet loss as an indication of congestion. One of the signals TCP uses to determine loss is the arrival of three duplicate acknowledgments. However, this heuristic is not always correct, notably in the case when paths reorder...

World Pneumonia Day — November 12, 2014

From the Editors: Perspectives on turnaround time.