?What wound did ever heal but by degrees??

Did the Sun’s Prairie Ever Stop Burning?

The presence of the red flash at total solar eclipses requires the existence of an extended chromosphere and therefore of a photospheric magnetic network that gives rise to spicules. We draw attention to the earliest historical reports of a red flash at the 1706 and 1715 eclipses, which therefore imply a substantial, widespread photospheric field during at least the last decade of the Maunder M...

What did the Romans ever do for us? 'Next generation' networks and hybrid learning resources

Networked learning is fundamentally concerned with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to link people to people and resources, to support the process of learning. This paper explores some current and forthcoming changes in ICT and some potential implications of these developments for networked learning. Whilst we aim to avoid taking a technologically determinist stance, ...

Does A Lung Cavity Ever Heal Spontaneously? *Abridged by the Editor.

Treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases: to heal the wound or to heal the sick?

tool rather than a therapeutic goal.4 MH has also been reported in a small proportion of CD patients achieving clinical remission following corticosteroid treatment.5 In CD, Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), encompassing ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are chronic, progressive and relapsing pathologic conditions caused by a dysregulation of the immune system.1 IBDs are charac...

What ever happened to accountability?

When leaders don't fire underperforming executives, they send a bad message to the whole organization. A case in point is the U.S. Army. "To study the change in the army across the two decades between World War II and Vietnam," Ricks writes, "is to learn how a culture of high standards and accountability can deteriorate." In this essay, adapted from his new book, The Generals: American Military...