Then the work begins

After the search is over ... the work begins

I am a musician who became interested in using computers in the mid-1980s in the hope that they might help me with the musicological work that was beginning to occupy more and more of my time. I am still waiting ... Even though much research work has been done on the low-level feature-extraction and matching tasks of music information retrieval (MIR), relatively little effort goes into matching...

Modernising medical careers; the really hard work now begins.

A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step, and Then Another . . .

elcome to the second issue of Cellular and MoW lecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology (CMGH). On behalf of the Board of Editors, the American Gastroenterological Association, and Elsevier, I would like to thank the gastrointestinal, liver, and pancreas research community for their strong support of this enterprise. We began accepting submissions June 1, 2014, and the response has grown each we...

Elastography--the movement begins.

The advent of real-time ultrasound in the 1970s, together with a growing interest in tissue characterization, led to a number of investigators using the nature of tissue motion to distinguish healthy from diseased tissue. Our group at the (then) Ultrasonics Institute demonstrated the use of phase methods for detecting very small tissue motions, using natural stimuli. The method could also be ap...

The 2009 influenza pandemic begins

On 11 June 2009, the WHO declared pandemic phase 6 and we moved into the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century. It had taken <6 weeks since the first notification to WHO of the new H1N1 infections in humans and the subsequent spread of this transmissible virus throughout the world. In contrast, past pandemics have taken about 6 months to become established and this is probably a reflecti...