Welcome to 2022! [President’s Columns]

Welcome to virosphere

Viruses may seem alien, but they are the most abundant and, arguably, the most important organisms on Earth. They are found just about everywhere, from oceans and forests to the people around you and, of course, in and on you as well. This world of strange, quasi-living things has been dubbed the virosphere, and it is a mysterious one – we know less about viruses than any other life form. But t...

What Will 2022 Look Like? The IEEE CS 2022 Report

ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP

For example, the escape sequence "ESC 2/4 2/8 4/3" or "ESC $ ( C" indicates that the bytes following the escape sequence are Korean KSC characters, which are encoded in two bytes each. The escape sequence "ESC 2/14 4/1" or "ESC . A" indicates that ISO 8859-1 is designated to G2. After the designation, the single shifted sequence "ESC 4/14 4/1" or "ESC N A" is interpreted to represent a characte...

Dmd058404 2016..2022

Due to the rapid turnover of the small intestinal epithelia, the rate at which enterocyte renewal occurs plays an important role in determining the level of drug-metabolizing enzymes in the gut wall. Current physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models consider enzyme and enterocyte recovery as a lumped first-order rate. An assessment of enterocyte turnover would enable enzyme and entero...

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap