We Need a New Narrative: Agents instead of Patients

DDH Epidemiology Revisited: Do We Need New Strategies?

Background: Although the developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is well known to pediatric orthopedists, its etiology has still remained unknown and despite dedication of a vast majority of research, the results are still inadequate and confusing. The exact incidence of DDH and its relationship with known risk factors in Iran is still unknown. Here we represent the results of one year study o...

Do we really need parallel programming or should we strive for parallelizable programming instead ? ∗

Should we develop better programming models for concurrent programming and instruct programmers to develop highly concurrent programs, or should we develop managed runtimes that automatically and transparently parallelize the programs that they write? In this paper, I make the argument that these two approaches may be at odds with each other, and raise the question of whether we should instruct...

Editorial: Computational Neuroscience and Modeling of Diseases: Do We Need New Paradigms?

[We need patients more obese].

We read with interest the work by Urfalıoğlu and colleagues about ultrasound-guided versus surgical transversus abdominis plane block in obese patients. The conclusion of this study is that ultrasound guided and surgical TAP blocks were safe and had similar efficacy in providing post-operative analgesia in obese pregnant women following cesarean section. We agree that TAP block, surgical or ult...

Teaching what they need instead of teaching what we like - the new software engineering curriculum at the University of Stuttgart

science, access to the universities has never been restricted. Private universities are almost unknown in Germany; all others are funded and controlled by the states (16 states form the Federal Republic of Germany) in which they are located. Students don't have to pay anything but some minor fees for insurance etc. Though there are certainly differences in quality between the universities, thes...