Stent Fracture: An Ongoing Story

TiO2 nanoparticle toxicity – an ongoing story

Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story

The role of the renal biopsy in lupus nephritis is to provide the diagnosis and to define the parameters of prognostic and therapeutic significance for an effective clinicopathological correlation. Various classification schemas initiated by World Health Organization in 1974 have been proposed until the most recent update by International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society in 2004. I...

Twin registries: an ongoing success story.

grant application for a twin heritability and linkage study on the grounds that ‘twin studies were an outdated methodology with no scientific merit, publishable only in obscure journals if anything ...’. Neither Twin Research and Human Genetics nor any of the other peer-reviewed journals cited by the authors of this special issue warrants the term ‘obscure’. Rather than being ‘outdated’, twin r...

The metabolic syndrome - an ongoing story.

The metabolic syndrome refers to the clustering of cardiovascular risk factors that include diabetes, obesity, dyslipidaemia and hypertension. Due to various definitions and unexplained pathophysiology it is still a source of medical controversy. Insulin resistance and visceral obesity have been recognized as the most important pathogenic factors. Insulin resistance could be defined as the inab...

Cognition in Hci: an Ongoing Story

The field of human computer interaction (HCI) is deeply rooted in cognitive science. But can cognitive science still contribute to the newest developments? This article introduces the recent trends towards “embodied cognition.” Then research on image schemas and their metaphorical extensions is reviewed as an example of how understanding a special branch of embodied cognition can be useful to H...