Staphylococcus slips through the net

When Malaria Slips a Vaccine's Net

Plasmodium falciparum is a protozoan parasite that, along with its close relatives, causes malaria in humans. The organism is remarkably adaptable, quickly evolving resistance to the measures humans have deployed against it; it took the parasite only a decade to evolve resistance to chloroquine, a preventative agent first introduced in 1947. Newer drugs have fared no better. A major push is cur...

Through the Net

Don't slip through the net.

t is possible to thrive in the modern world without recourse to the internet. But only just. If you are a " techno-phobe " , deterred by the daunting size and complexity of this continually evolving medium, JNNP could help you become a " technophile ". Fewer than four decades ago, the cold war motivated the creation of the inter-net. Academic inspiration subsequently harnessed the internet's po...

Slips of the typewriter key

This article presents an analysis of 500 submorphemic slips of the typewriter key that escaped the notice of authors and other proofreaders and thereby made their way into the published records of scientific research. Despite this high selectivity, the corpus is not found to differ in major ways from other collections of keying slips. The main characteristics of this error type include a predom...

Teaching Software Engineering through the Net

The introduction of technology in education seems promising; this is especially so for the new technologies of computer networks and hypermedia systems. However, only through experimentation the effectiveness of these technologies can be demonstrated. There is an ongoing project for this purpose, entitled EONT, partially funded by the European Union within the framework of the Socrates program....