‘We Are All Integrationists Now’: How Should We Talk About It?

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

Child euthanasia: should we just not talk about it?

Belgium has recently extended its euthanasia legislation to minors, making it the first legislation in the world that does not specify any age limit. I consider two strands in the opposition to this legislation. First, I identify five arguments in the public debate to the effect that euthanasia for minors is somehow worse than euthanasia for adults--viz, arguments from weightiness, capability o...

We Want It All, and We Want It Now!

Low power, high performance, cost, integration, quality — consumer electronics customers demand all of these, with an increasing sense of urgency and diminishing product cycle times. Properly balancing these factors is the key for success in today's consumer electronics semiconductor industry. SOC designers are faced with challenges of not only delivering complex and highly integrated mixed sig...

Psychosis Risk: What Is It and How Should We Talk About It?

Schizophrenia and other psychosis spectrum disorders do not develop de novo but emerge from prodromal stages that are named and operationalized differently depending on the research group or consortium and its theoretical orientation. As a result, a complex lexicon now exists for characterizing individuals' risk of subclinical symptoms converting to psychosis. Researchers aim to develop instrum...

We are all Economists Now

Multiple virtual machine (VM) workloads are increasingly common, given the growth of managed enterprise application systems and consolidated virtual servers. Until now, there has been no principled approach to partitioning memory resource between multiple co-located VMs. In this paper, we develop a general framework for multi-VM heap sizing, based on the principle of utility maximization from m...