Will COVID-19 Boost Sustainable Tourism: Wishful Thinking or Reality?

Surrogate endpoints: wishful thinking or reality?

The wishful thinking of indirect mitral annuloplasty: will it ever become a reality?

Currently, the clinical benefits of mitral regurgitation treatment by surgical mitral valve repair techniques are similar to those of mitral valve replacement. However, mortality is significantly lower after mitral valve repair than after valve replacement (0.2% versus 2.1%, P 0.001).1 Reoperation after mitral valve repair is rare (4.7%). Half of the small number of patients who require reopera...

Sustainable Tourism: Research and Reality

Social and environmental impacts, responses and indicators are reviewed for the mainstream tourism sector worldwide, in five categories: population, peace, prosperity, pollution and protection. Of the 5000 relevant publications, very few attempt to evaluate the entire global tourism sector in terms which reflect global research in sustainable development. The industry is not yet close to sustai...

Wishful Thinking

and we will write to you when there is a bed available yes I know it's painful, and six months is a long time to wait, but I am afraid we have already lost two wards this year because of the cuts. Mrs Thatcher keeps taking money away from us to spend on Trident Missiles Yes I wish you would write to your Member of Parliament about it. Hello Sister, is it tea time yet? Sister: Not yet I'm afraid...

Advances in Computational Biology: A Real Boost or a Wishful Thinking

Computational biology is on the verge of a paradigm shift in its research practice – from a data-based (computational) paradigm to an information-based (cognitive) paradigm. As in the other research fields, this transition is impeded by lack of a right understanding about what is actually hidden behind the term “information”. The paper is intended to clarify this issue and introduces two new no...