Keeping hope afloat

Keeping Afloat: A Strategy for Small Island Nations

Background: Orthology is one of the cornerstones of gene function prediction. Dividing the phylogenetic relations between genes into either orthologs or paralogs is however an oversimplification. Already in two-species gene-phylogenies, the complicated, non-transitive nature of phylogenetic relations results in inparalogs and outparalogs. For situations with more than two species we lack semant...

Climate change, sea-level rise, and conservation: keeping island biodiversity afloat.

Island conservation programs have been spectacularly successful over the past five decades, yet they generally do not account for impacts of climate change. Here, we argue that the full spectrum of climate change, especially sea-level rise and loss of suitable climatic conditions, should be rapidly integrated into island biodiversity research and management.

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

Calcifications afloat: bad omens in maxillary sinus augmentation.

To cite: Di Pasquale D, Saibene AM, Bebi V, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-201581 DESCRIPTION A 60-year-old patient was referred to our ear nose and throat (ENT) clinic for facial pain, bilateral midface swelling and purulent nasal discharge. The patient had undergone a bilateral maxillary sinus augmentation procedure 3 weeks before. ...