Oh no – not yet another small, stand-alone humanities journal!

Oh, no! Not Another Web-based Desktop!

Among the advantages of cloud services, the most important are ubiquitous availability and collaboration support. Are the current technological solutions up to the job, in order to face the challenges posed by these two features? To provide an answer, the paper surveys some examples of online collaboration applications and concludes that what is still missing is an environment that acts as a “g...

Yet another journal …

The new Journal of Applied & Translational Genomics: No, not just another new journal

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato Welcome to the newly revamped journal of Applied & Translational Genomics (ATG). ATG is a new open access biomedical journal providing a global forum for 'omics' research, converging disruptive technologies , clinical genomics, and related issues in education, bioethics, public health, citizen science and policy. The...

Accreditation is not a stand-alone solution.

The politics and purpose of health care accreditation programmes around the world have changed radically from the original models of North America 50 years ago. Then they were hospitalfocused, profession-driven, voluntary, self-financing and essentially non-governmental. The 1990s saw a rapid growth of programmes with an increasing emphasis on primary care, networks, health systems and regulati...

Reinventing the Wheel Or Not Yet Another Compiler Compiler Compiler

This paper discusses a tool developed for generating code generators. The first author, dismayed with the clumsiness of lex, yacc, JLex, and Java Cup, proposes a new tool that serves to augment the above tools, discusses challenges met during the first generation of said tool, and lays out plans for future revisions.