Handle With Care? and Standing Ovation: Performing Social Science Research About Cancer

The standing ovation problem

Over the last decade, research topics such as learning, heterogeneity, networks, diffusion, and externalities, have moved from the fringe to the frontier in the social sciences. In large part this new research agenda has been driven by key tools and ideas emerging from the study of complex adaptive systems. Research is often inspired by simple models that provide a rich domain from which to exp...

Handle with care

Human resource management (HRM) accounts for almost one-third of the Organisational Management syllabus, so it is crucial that you familiarise yourself with the subject, which covers the key activities concerning the management of people. These include human resource planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, reward and motivation, career and succession planning, induction, ...

Handle Atoms with Care

Atoms of a (regular) language L were introduced by Brzozowski and Tamm in 2011 as intersections of complemented and uncomplemented quotients of L. They derived tight upper bounds on the complexity of atoms in 2013. In 2014, Brzozowski and Davies characterized the regular languages meeting these bounds. To achieve these results, they used the so-called “átomaton” of a language, introduced by Brz...

Liquid Biopsies: Handle With Care

Possibly the first mention of the term ‘liquid biopsy’ (as it is understood today) in the scientific literature appears in a report about the 7th International Symposium on Minimal Residual Cancer (ISMRC) held in Athens, Greece in 2009.1 The symposium had focused on, among other things, Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) and their relationship to Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs). In that symposium, it was ...

Handle with (faith-based) care.