The DSM Directive 2 Years On: Do Things Ever Get Easier?

Do trauma stomas ever get reversed?

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of information about the frequency and timing of reversal after stoma creation for trauma. In addition, the barriers to reversal faced by those patients are largely unknown. We hypothesize that the rate of stoma creation and reversal are low among trauma patients. Additionally, we sought to identify patient-related barriers to stoma reversal. STUDY DESIGN Analysi...

Do We Ever Really Get out of Anarchy?"

A major point of dispute among libertarian theorists and thinkers today as always revolves around the age-old question of whether man can live in total anarchy or whether the minimal state is absolutely necessary for the maximization of freedom. Lost in this dispute is the question of whether man is capable of getting out of anarchy at all. Can we really abolish anarchy and set up a Government ...

The things that get measured are the things that get done.

It's easier to get along with the quiet neighbours

Why are neighbouring genes co-expressed at the RNA level? While it is tempting to think that this is to enable coordination of functionally related proteins, analysis of human proteomics data by Rappsilber and colleagues (Kustatscher et al, 2017) suggests this is the exception not the rule. Rather it might either be just something that happens or, in some instances, an epiphenomenon of coordina...

The Road Ahead: It Doesn't Get Any Easier

The accomplishments of the real-time systems research community over the past 25 years have been substantial. Starting from a diffuse base of ideas from computer science, software engineering, operations research, queuing theory and other related disciplines, the real-time systems community established its distinct identity as a mainline research field able to achieve big impacts in real-world ...