REFLECTING ON BIRTWISTLE AT 80

Reflecting on 80 years of excellence.

A small group of members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation began chatting in 1916 about the possibility of launching a new biomedical research journal. By October 1924, they managed to make the idea a reality with the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Our 80th birthday seems an appropriate time to reflect on the history of biomedical scien...

Reflecting on suicide: lessons from my time at Harvard

More than a year ago I was sat in my room watching an American university professor demon strating a computerised test on a tablet to one of his interns. His name was Matthew Nock and he was a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a world expert on suicide research. The computerised test was and still is called the Suicide Implicit Association Test (S-IAT) and Professor Nock hoped h...

Reflecting on posture.

Cardiovascular parameters are most often assessed at rest, and in many cases in the supine position. This generally facilitates measurement procedures and obviates the need to account for external and usually complex confounding factors, other than those related to the inherent physiology being investigated. Although the supine resting position may be relevant for some part of circadian living,...

Reflecting on Quality

JULY/AUGUST 2016 | IEEE SOFTWARE 5 MONITORING ROADWORK quality differs completely from actually building roads. When the road is being built, you take samples of materials and test them in a lab. When it’s ready, you use specialized equipment to look for slippery or uneven pavements. And when the road is opened to traf c, you set up cameras and other sensors to see how it’s used. In software en...

Reflecting on early arthritis.