Slaying the Dragon

Slaying the CVD dragon with steroids.

C ardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a big problem worldwide, accounting for 29% of all deaths and over 16 million deaths annually [1]. Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke are by far the most important contributors to total CVD mortality, responsible for 43% (7.2 million) and 33% (5.5 million) of all CVD deaths, respectively. At the heart of IHD and stroke is atherosclerosis, characterised b...

Tumor necrosis factor inhibition in the treatment of refractory sarcoidosis: slaying the dragon?

Slaying the dragon myth: an ethnographic study of receptionists in UK general practice.

BACKGROUND General practice receptionists fulfil an essential role in UK primary care, shaping patient access to health professionals. They are often portrayed as powerful 'gatekeepers'. Existing literature and management initiatives advocate more training to improve their performance and, consequently, the patient experience. AIM To explore the complexity of the role of general practice rece...

Slaying the Hydra

for 22 Oct. 2015 The Lernaean Hydra was a mythological creature, which, when one of its many heads was cut off, immediately grew two more. One of the ten labors of Hercules was to slay the Hydra. In order to help Hercules slay a mathematical version of the Hydra, we will introduce transfinite ordinal numbers, to do what Peano arithmetic cannot. Bring swords, helmets and spears, and a willingnes...

Dragon

Objectives: Dragon Systems is developing and building high performance, computationallyefficient interactive speech workstations, to sup'port adaptive speech recognition of large vocabulary, natural language speech input in real-time. These systems are based on the results of the multi-knowledge source (MKS) algorithm architecture and multi-processor accelerator hardware studies previously unde...