History is Returning to Design

Is the antibiotic era joint the history?

For the last few years, antibiotic resistance has become one of the major concerns within medical society. On one hand, pathogens have mostly acquired resistance against the major conventional antibiotics used in the treatment of microbial infections. These included even first-line antibiotics, which are critical in the treatment of severe infections. This catastrophic situation has occurred du...

Returning to semi-bounded sets

Returning to more finished genomes

Genomic data have become commonplace in most branches of the biological sciences and have fundamentally altered the way research is conducted. However, the predominance of short-read sequence data from second-generation sequencing technologies has commonly resulted in fragmented and partial genomic data characteristics. In this opinion, I will highlight how long, unbiased reads from single mole...

Returning to play after concussion.

Most agree that organized sports provide a vital source of therapeutic satisfaction for our patients. It is our responsibility to encourage these activities, while also fostering safety and reducing the risk of injury. One such risk, concussion, has always been an inherent danger — one that medical professionals, trainers and equipment designers are still striving to understand. Recent reports ...

Eventually Returning to Strong Consistency

Eventually and weakly consistent distributed systems have emerged in the past decade as an answer to scalability and availability issues associated with strong consistency semantics, such as linearizability. However, systems offering strong consistency semantics have an advantage over systems based on weaker consistency models, as they are typically much simpler to reason about and are more int...