Reaction to "Something Might Be Gaining on Us"

The Peer-Review and Editorial System: Ways to Fix Something That Might Be Broken.

The present article focuses on ways to make the peer-review and editorial process more efficient and more equitable for authors. In particular, we focus on the role of editors and action editors in the process of selecting and managing reviewers, balancing their own impressions of the manuscript with the reviewers' feedback, and rendering a fair and equitable editorial decision. We advance seve...

Ability to detect malodour might be genetic.

EDITOR,-In their study of subjects suffering from trimethylaminuria R Ayesh and colleagues observed that six of the 11 patients were unaware of their malodour.1 I report a small controlled study of the ability of normal, healthy subjects to detect the odour of trimethylamine. A mother complained that her 6 year old daughter had an unpleasant smell, which was present most of the time but was wor...

Wondering What Might Be

This paper explores the possibility of supplementing the suppositional view of indicative conditionals with a corresponding view of epistemic modals. The most striking feature of the suppositional view consists in its claim that indicative conditionals are to be evaluated by conditional probabilities. On the basis of a natural link between indicative conditionals and epistemic modals, a corresp...

Time has something to tell us about Network Address Translation

In this paper we introduce a new technique to count the number of host behind a NAT. This technique based on TCP timestamp option, work with Linux and BSD system and therefore is complementary to the previous one base on IPID than does not work for those systems. Our implementation demonstrates the practicability of this method.

Accidental extubations - are the infants trying to tell us something?