PCR’S NEXT WAVE

T Spaces: The Next Wave

Millions of small heterogeneous computers are poised to spread into the infrastructure of our society. Though mostly inconspicuous today, disguised as nothing more than PIM (personal information management) computers, these tiny processors will eventually pervade most aspects of civilized life. The one thing holding them back from being everyone's portal to the new electronic society and the ac...

Ivory wave: the next mephedrone?

BACKGROUND Since the classification of miaow miaow (mephedrone) as a class B drug in April this year, a new drug is emerging as a so-called 'legal high'. Deaths have already been attributed to ivory wave in different parts of the country. METHOD A case study is presented, and relevant literature is explored in order to better understand the drug and its effects in the human body. RESULTS Ov...

Commentary : The Next Wave of Nomadic Computing

Anomadic information environment is a heterogeneous assemblage of interconnected technological, and social, and organizational elements that enable the physical and social mobility of computing and communication services between organizational actors bothwithin and across organizational borders. We analyze such environments based on their prevalent features of mobility, digital convergence, and...

Gravitational-wave Antennas for the next Generation

The sensitivity of resonant-mass gravitational-wave antennas has now reached h ≤ 10−18, where h is the dimensionless metric perturbation caused by the wave. In order to observe gravitational wave events such as coalescing neutron star binaries and colliding black holes from as far as the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the detector sensitivity must be improved by three orders of magnitude. With such...

Heart hospitals: are they the next wave?