Understanding modern transparency

Understanding Modern Econometrics

Econometrics has become an integral part of training in modern economics and business. Together with microeconomics and macroeconomics, econometrics has been taught as one of the three core courses in most undergraduate and graduate economic programs in North America. In China, the importance of econometrics has been increasingly recognized and econometric tools and methods have been widely emp...

Transparency and translation of science in a modern world

The co-Editors-in-Chief of Environmental Health respond to an unusual initiative taken by editors of 14 toxicology journals to influence pending decisions by the European Commission to establish a framework for regulating chemicals that pose a hazard to normal function of the endocrine system. This initiative is also the subject of this Commentary in this journal by authors who recently reviewe...

Understanding and Improving Modern Web Traffic Caching

The World Wide Web is one of the most popular and important Internet applications, and our daily lives heavily rely on it. Despite its importance, the current Web access is still limited for two reasons: (1) the Web has changed and grown significantly as social networking, video streaming, and file hosting sites have become popular, requiring more and more bandwidth, and (2) the need for Web ac...

Understanding the Essence of Modern Diplomacy

Modern literary interpretation in understanding the meaning of the verse ‘There is nothing like Him’

Numerous views have been expressed by commentators and writers about the literary aspect and the meaning of the Qurchr('39')anic phrase "There is nothing like Him". The sequence of the words "ka" and "like" in the holy verse, has led to two literary and semantic illusions. The literary illusion is that "ka" seems to be redundant and the semantic illusion is the word ‘like’ indirectly proves the...