Misplaced advocacy: What does better hepatitis C treatment really mean?

Misplaced advocacy: What does better hepatitis C treatment really mean?

What Does Exercise-Based Assessment Really Mean?

My commentary addresses Lance’s recommendation to reorient assessment center (AC) practice away from dimensions toward exercise-based assessment. As exercisebased assessment is dealt with only in general terms in Lance’s article, I aim to delineate what exercise-based assessment really means. Two points are made. First, I argue that taking dimensions away from ACs does not mean that assessee be...

Coordinated care: what does that really mean?

The healthcare system in Australia is struggling to meet the healthcare needs of the ageing population. The pressure on health systems to solve these complex problems can create a sense of urgency to find a panacea in concepts such as coordinated care. A common understanding of coordinated care is often assumed when, in reality, the concept is neither clearly defined nor completely understood. ...

Embryo metabolism: what does it really mean?

The study of early embryo metabolism has fascinated researchers in the field for nearly a century. Herein, we give a brief account of the general features of embryo metabolism and some consideration of the research performed to reach such conclusions. It is becoming increasingly obvious that metabolism informs many fate decisions and outcomes beyond ATP generation, such as DNA methylation, Reac...

What does Service-oriented Computing really mean?

If you take a closer look at current service-oriented architectures and their standards like Web-ser­ vices and compare them to other distributed computing approaches, then you will come to the fol­ lowing conclusion: Technically SOC does not provide any new possibilities or solutions which were not already available or implementable with the old approaches. It would be for example not a proble...