Seeing it “as it should be?” Or “as it is?”

Common Sense in Environmental Impact Assessment It is not as Common as it Should Be

Reviews of environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice, particularly by industrial proponents, have highlighted common shortfalls. EIA would benefit from more ‘common sense’, which is not very common. For example, issue scoping usually includes too many inconsequential factors, and issues not directly affecting project decisions. Consideration of significance is often vague, misleading or in...

Tigecycline: what is it, and where should it be used?

Tigecycline is the first glycylcycline to be launched and is one of the very few new antimicrobials with activity against Gram-negative bacteria. It evades acquired efflux and target-mediated resistance to classical tetracyclines, but not chromosomal efflux in Proteeae and Pseudomonas. Cmax+ is low, but tissue penetration is excellent and the compound has shown equivalence to imipenem/cilastati...

Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, and What It Should Be

What Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the current time is not what it should be. The mainstream works in the field are on domain-specific problems and solutions. Instead, AI should focus on general-purpose systems that are adaptive to its environment, and can work with insufficient knowledge and resources. AI in this sense is unified with Cognitive Science at a general level, with the latter ...

Blunt renal artery trauma: how should it be treated, or rather, should it be treated?

Rapid Response to Supersolidity: ‘Is It There or Is It Not?’ May Be the Answer as Well as the Question

with changes in a macroscopic collection of molecules he had witnessed—water which changes from solid to liquid to vapor as temperature increases. Fast forward almost exactly fi ve hundred years since “Hamlet” was fi rst performed at the Globe to the year 2004 and the Penn State University laboratory of physicist Moses Chan, where temperatures can be lowered to 0.2 Kelvin (0.2 above absolute ze...