Industry 4.0: Is Indonesia Ready?

HealthVault: PHRs still growing, but is the industry even ready?

Fast forward to today. PHRs are definitely making inroads, but not necessarily in the way Microsoft (or competitor Google Inc., which in 2008 launched its own consumer-oriented PHR service) had hoped. A Forrester Research survey of more than 5,200 consumers conducted in late 2009 found that almost a third of respondents had some form of PHR-but the vast majority are getting them from their heal...

vertical gastric plication: is it ready for prime-time?

Capstone Design Courses: Producing Industry-Ready Biomedical Engineers

Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry

Product differentiation is well established as being the key source of the cereal industry’s high price-cost margins. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a source of profitability, and indeed, whether price even serves as a strategic variable in this industry. This paper seeks to resolve this debate by determining whether cereal firms strategically interac...

Is epidemiology ready for epigenetics?

The revellers depicted in the painting by the Dutch artist Judith Leyster (1609–60) (Figure 1) will not have given epigenetics a passing thought. Little were they to know that indulgences, such as drinking alcohol and smoking, would be contributing to their ‘exposome’ and marking their epigenome to potentially compromise their future health. The skeleton proffering an hourglass is perhaps a por...