Where is the nation-state heading to?

Where is Patient Safety Research and Practice Heading? A Response to Recent Commentaries

Is family medicine ready to look where it is heading?

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ANCA disease: where is this field heading?

ANCA disease remains a subject of great experimental and clinical interest. The subcategories of names and descriptions for this collection of vasculitides and necrotizing glomerulonephritides is still a subject of some debate. The various forms of ANCA disease share some characteristics, and similar therapies are often recommended for overlapping categories of disease. The immunopathogenic eff...

Data Mining: Where is it Heading? (Panel)

Data mining is a promising field in which research and development activities are flourishing. It is also a young field with vast, unexplored territories. How can we contribute significantly to this fast expanding, multi-disciplinary field? This panel will bring database researchers together to share different views and insights on the issues in the field. Data mining has attracted popular inte...

How Successful is Nation-State?

The paper discusses pro-nationalist authors (D. Miller, A. Oldenquist, M.Canovan) who claim that states formed around a particular ethno-cultural nation have been historically sucessful, in terms of economic success, justice, democracy and solidarity. It is argued that their claims fail: in typical and wellknown cases there is an inverse correlation between the strenght of nationalism and the s...