Vaccine vigilance in Canada: Is it as robust as it could be?

Time as it could be measured in artificial living systems

Being able to measure time, whether directly or indirectly, is a significant advantage for an organism. It permits it to predict regular events, and prepare for them on time. Thus, clocks are ubiquitous in biology. In the present paper, we consider the most minimal abstract pure clocks and investigate their characteristics with respect to their ability to measure time. Amongst other, we find fu...

Community health centers: health care as it could be.

INTRODUCTION This Article explores the potential of community health centers (CHCs) to become a central component providing health care in America. It focuses on health centers as a proposed solution to the dual national problems of access to care and the shortage of primary care doctoring. It argues that CHCs have the capacity to address the problem of access to health services and to provide ...

INTRODUCTION: Internet Research as It Isn't, Is, Could Be, and Should Be

The articles included here are a self-reflexive effort by a diverse group of scholars to answer this question. Among the specific queries authors were invited to consider were the extent to which Internet research is an academic “field” or “discipline,” what it means to label this field, whether “Internet research” is the right name, and what this field might learn from the histories of other i...

Common Sense in Environmental Impact Assessment It is not as Common as it Should Be

Reviews of environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice, particularly by industrial proponents, have highlighted common shortfalls. EIA would benefit from more ‘common sense’, which is not very common. For example, issue scoping usually includes too many inconsequential factors, and issues not directly affecting project decisions. Consideration of significance is often vague, misleading or in...

Could it be Lyme neuroborreliosis?