“Ooh, It Was All So Awful”

It was logical but was it the whole truth?

Calcific aortic stenosis (AS) was initially characterized as a degenerative process (disorder) because of a tendency to describe any disorder that was not well understood and often occurred in the ‘elderly’ as degenerative. In the last ‘15–20’ years, the observation of the presence of risk factors for arterial atherosclerosis in patients with calcific AS, the production of aortic valve calcific...

I S the Imagery Debate over ? I F so , What Was It about ?

Make it so !

In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possible technologies for e-(local)-government services. The work was part of a project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and was concerned with ‘access tokens’ that can provide personal identification fo...

So it is time

So it is time. I had rather hoped it would never come but, well now you have it, our journal has soon to start charging for publication. You see, for the past almost two years our generous publisher – OUP-has absorbed the costs of an incredible scientific output that has placed JHPS in the very forefront of publishing in the field of hip preservation surgery. Forefront? Let me show you. I did a...

Marine sediments tell it like it was.

W e live in a constantly changing environment. Although some changes are natural and therefore beyond our control, there is no question that many anthropogenic activities have dramatically altered our planet. The ‘‘human footprint’’ is now discernable around the globe, so much so that Crutzen (1) proposed a new geological epoch (the Anthropocene) to delineate the recent human-dominated era of E...