Not an author but an increasingly proficient secretary

Necessary but not sufficient: unique author identifiers

To cite: Harrison AM, Harrison AM. BMJ Innov 2016;2:141–143. For better or worse, English is the predominant language used by the international scientific and medical communities to disseminate knowledge. The 26 characters of the Latin alphabet are also arranged in names: non-unique patterns. At the time of the origins of modern biomedical research, names may have been relatively unique, at lea...

An increasingly complex code.

An increasingly scented world

We know that, at least in the short term, a rise in temperature exponentially increases the emission rates of most biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). It does so by enhancing the enzymatic activities of synthesis, by raising the BVOC vapour pressure, and by decreasing the resistance of the diffusion pathway (Tingey et al., 1991). BVOC emissions are thus expected to increase strongly wi...

An Increasingly Fragile World

Towards an Intelligent Electronic Secretary

The ubiquity of network-based information resources have given impetus for the development of intelligent software agents that will be able to (1) extract task-relevant information automatically or with little help from human users from various on-line information resources, (2) resolve the potential con icts among acquired knowledge from di erent information resources, and (3) more importantly...