The second Renaissance

Goiters in the Renaissance.

Enlargements of the thyroid gland known as goiters appear in artworks and artifacts of many cultures. They are represented in sculptures, bas-reliefs, masks, waxes, mosaics, bronzes, stained glass windows, paintings and drawings of the last two millennia. These are described in several monographs and in Merke's scholarly History and Iconography of Endemic Goitre and Cretinism (Barbieri 1993, Gi...

Towards the Arab Renaissance

As recent events in the Arab region have amply demonstrated, the problems of poverty, unemployment and social and political exclusion cannot be forever ignored without there arising demands for change in the basic arrangements of society. Today, the dramatic revolts in diverse Arab societies have highlighted the failures of the pre-existing development model, as well as the necessity and opport...

The Software Architecture Renaissance

There is a revival of interest in the software product after several years of intense focus by the software engineering community on the software process. Similarly, within the software design community, there is a revival of interest in higher levels of design (e.g. software architecture) after several years of intense focus on object-oriented (OO) design methodologies (e.g. identifying object...

The inevitable QSAR renaissance

QSAR approaches, including recent advances in 3D-QSAR, are advantageous during the lead optimization phase of drug discovery and complementary with bioinformatics and growing data accessibility. Hints for future QSAR practitioners are also offered.

Renaissance in the microcirculation.