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We've got to stop meeting like this.

Meetings are an integral aspect of healthcare management. Too often, however, they are run inefficiently and with the wrong emphases, thus diminishing their inherent value. The words of wisdom from this veteran of innumerable meetings should provide readers with some pointers on how to get their meetings back on track.

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EDITOR'S NOTE - About This Supplement

In 2011, the National Academy of Medicine of Korea organized an academic forum, entitled “Salt and Health” in collaboration with the Research Institute of Salt and Health and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. After the forum, national campaigns began in order to increase public awareness of health hazards due to high salt intake and also to encourage low salt intake. The forum stressed defi...

About this Business of Metadata

A brief discussion presents some of the opportunities and challenges involved with creating metadata-centric businesses that bring Music Information Retrieval technologies to the marketplace. In particular, two related difficulties -that of the difficulty of proving incremental value for new metadata systems, and that of the relative influidity of the marketplace for MIR -are highlighted. Poten...

EDITOR'S NOTE - About This Supplement

Given the recent statistics showing that one out of every four Koreans is diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, cancer is no doubt a major public health burden in Korea. In response to this, the Korean government has recently made a series of efforts to cope with this deadly disease, the most recent one of which is the legislation of the Cancer Control Act in 2003 and subsequent formulat...