So What about Italy These Days?

What Mosquitos Smell These Days

[What is a reproduced pterygium these days?].

Figura 1 – Pterigios reproducidos. A) Pterigión evidentemente reproducido. B) Postoperatorio con congestión conjuntival intensa en paciente sintomático esde épocas remotas el pterigión se ha definido como una roliferación fibro vascular de la conjuntiva que invade la córea y ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios en medicina que atan desde 1.000 a. C. En la India, Susruta, considerado como l prim...

So what ’ s so special about spatial ?

Geospatial information can act as a thread that can be used to integrate information from heterogeneous sources. It does so by exploiting common location information components that often exist across different domains. As such it has the potential to be a valuable resource in the implementation of the Semantic Web. This paper examines the challenges of adding a geospatial component to the Web,...

What is so odd about odds?

In clinical studies, the relative likelihood of an event occurring between 2 groups is often expressed as the risk ratio (RR) or the odds ratio (OR). The RR is an intuitive parameter that is relatively easy to interpret. Quantitative interpretation of an OR is much more difficult and is often incorrectly equated to that of an RR. The problem is that OR may differ substantially from RR, especial...

What is so special about mangroves?

The title question of this short paper has been addressed to me countless times by persons from all walks of life. The paper is a concise answer to the question; it might go halfway towards satisfying the questioners, but not more than halfway. This paper identifies the uniqueness of mangrove ecosystems in that they are created and sustained by a small number of rooted vascular plants in the in...