The Most Dangerous Catch: Fisherman Caught by Halibut Hook

The most dangerous hospital or the most dangerous equation?

BACKGROUND Hospital mortality rates are one of the most frequently selected indicators for measuring the performance of NHS Trusts. A recent article in a national newspaper named the hospital with the highest or lowest mortality in the 2005/6 financial year; a report by the organization Dr Foster Intelligence provided information with regard to the performance of all NHS Trusts in England. ME...

The Most Dangerous Branch

The Most Dangerous Equation

W constitutes a dangerous equation? There are two obvious interpretations: Some equations are dangerous if you know them, and others arc dangerous if you do not. The first category may pose danger because the secrets within its bounds open doors behind which lies terrible peril. The obvious winner in this is Einstein's iconic equation e = nic~, for it provides a measure of the enormous energy h...

Receptor–ligand binding: ‘catch’ bonds finally caught

Leukocyte recruitment to sites of inflammation is initiated by the selectin family of adhesion receptors. Recent research reveals that P-selectin binding to its ligand exhibits 'catch' to 'slip' bond transition that may help explain the shear threshold phenomenon.

The Most Dangerous Code in the Browser

Browser extensions are ubiquitous. Yet, in today’s browsers, extensions are the most dangerous code to user privacy. Extensions are third-party code, like web applications, but run with elevated privileges. Even worse, existing browser extension systems give users a false sense of security by considering extensions to be more trustworthy than web applications. This is because the user typically...