Wish List from Radiation Emergency Medicine to Health Physics

Radiation Emergency Medicine

A science editor's wish list

One-sentence summary: This article presents an experience-based opinion on resources that would help author's editors working on scientific manuscripts perform their tasks more efficiently. Before I stumbled into a career in science editing, I had not fully appreciated how multi-layered the task of an author's editor can be; I had barely even known that such a profession existed. I began to enj...

A taxonomic wish-list for community ecology.

Community ecology seeks to explain the number and relative abundance of coexisting species. Four research frontiers in community ecology are closely tied to research in systematics and taxonomy: the statistics of species richness estimators, global patterns of biodiversity, the influence of global climate change on community structure, and phylogenetic influences on community structure. The mos...

A wish list for systematic biology.

—“When you’re movin’ in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.” Stevie Wonder, “Master Blaster (Jammin’),” 1980 This is the last of several commentaries solicited by the Editor on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of our society. Whereas previous installments have reected on key episodes in the past, this one concerns the future. The distant future is hard to predict, except ...

Radiation physics and applications in therapeutic medicine

Radiation therapy is an example of the successful application of advanced physics to the treatment of human disease leading to improved quality of life and even cure for many patients. The German physicist William Roentgen (1845–1923), who discovered x-rays in 1895 and pioneered early x-ray applications, would likely be astonished if he could see the breadth and depth of their application in th...