Valentina Greco: Got hair?

Valentina Greco: Got hair?

I n mammalian hair follicles, follicu-lar tissues and new hairs are generated during a cyclical growth cycle. The growth phase is followed by a period of degeneration and then by entry into a resting state that terminates with a new round of growth. The transitions between different stages of the cycle are triggered by interactions of hair follicle stem cells with underlying mesenchymal cells, ...

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You've Got Hypertext You've Got Hypertext

In this paper we consider possible “future everyday hypertext systems.” To ground our discussion, we look first at the functional and conceptual definitions of hypertext that have evolved in the hypertext research community. We then consider these definitions against the Web, the best known current everyday hypertext, but one that the hypertext community has regarded as only partially a hyperte...

Valentina Lichtner , Tony Cornford , Ela Klecun

Successful health information technology (HIT) implementations need to be informed on the context of use and on users’ attitudes. To this end, we developed the CLinical Computer Systems Survey (CLICS) instrument. CLICS reflects a sociotechnical view of HIT adoption, and is designed to encompass all members of the clinical team. We used the survey in a large English hospital as part of its inter...

Greco-Roman ethics and the naturalistic fantasy.

To modern scholars, the naturalistic fallacy looks out of place in Greco-Roman antiquity owing to the robust associations between nature, especially human nature, and moral norms. Yet nature was understood by ancient authors not only as a norm but also as a form of necessity. The Greco-Roman philosophical schools grappled with how to reconcile the idea that human nature is given with the idea t...