Multimorbidity: will it stand the test of time?

Hepatitis B virus genotyping: will it stand the test of time?

IDDQ Test: Will It Survive the DSM Challenge?

As transistor geometries are reduced, leakage current increases. Due to increased levels and process variation, IDDQ test faces difficult challenges for deep sub-micron technologies. Several solutions have been proposed in the literature. This paper provides an overview of some of the solutions. Some views on the future of IDDQ testing are also presented.

Ideas That Stand the [evolutionary] Test of Time

Evolutionary psychology, memetics and models of cultural evolution focus on reproductive success. I will argue that fitness should in fact focus on differential persistence of entities instead of differential reproductive success of replicators. Understanding evolution as such shifts the nature of adaptation from reproduction to persistence, changing the means by which representational powers w...

Editorial: The Schistosomiasis Vaccine – It is Time to Stand up

Schistosomiasis is a severe parasitic disease, endemic in 74 developing countries with up to 600 million people infected and 800 million, mostly children, at risk of contracting the disease following infection predominantly with Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma haematobium, or Schistosoma japonicum. The disease burden is estimated to exceed 70 million disability-adjusted life-years, and leads t...

Traditional medicine: Where does it stand?

While earth is becoming a smaller village every day, the rapid population growth and ageing is impeding obvious shifting pattern of disease which in turn is inflecting great economic burden required for fast growing health expenditure particularly in the developing world whose suffering from this particular issue is turning into an inflated almost non-curable disease. The major world population...