Who Needs Standards? [President's Message]

Presidents who value science.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 323 13 FEBRUARY 2009 843 COVER An image of Mare Moscoviense on the lunar farside, taken by the Terrain Camera aboard the SELENE (Kaguya) spacecraft on 17 January 2008. Crater frequency distributions derived from such images yield ages of about 2.5 billion years for several volcanic deposits in this mare, indicating that volcanism on the lunar farside lasted about ...

Presidents' statement on WHO recommendation on HbA1c for diabetes diagnosis.

Diabetes is a common and serious condition which results in premature mortality, significant morbidity and has a considerable economic impact. A diagnosis of diabetes has important implications for the individual. It not only commits them to a lifetime of treatment but also may affect work opportunities and social interactions, underlining the importance of making a correct diagnosis. While rel...

WHO child growth standards.

comprehensive review of the uses and interpretation of anthropometric references. The review concluded that the NCHS/WHO growth reference, which had been recommended for international use since the late 1970s, did not adequately represent early childhood growth and that new growth curves were necessary. The World Health Assembly endorsed this recommendation in 1994. The WHO Multicentre Growth R...

WHO Child Growth Standards

Who needs a scheduler?

This position paper advocates the need for scheduling. Even if resources at our disposal would become abundant and cheap, not to say unlimited and free (a perspective that is not granted), we would still need to assign the right task to the right device. We give several simple examples of such situations where resource selection and allocation is mandatory. Finally we expose our views on the im...