Worm therapy: How would you like your medicine?

Would You Like a GDP with Your Coffee?

The holistic economics studies the economy as an integrated, unique object with its own motivation and global resources. It is also necessary to find out from this point of view the global characteristic of this object. And this is just the analogy with the GDP, constructed upon quantities with what the holistic economics works. This characteristic describes activity of parts of the control str...

Pandemic influenza--how would you and your hospital cope?

Would you like some cardiopulmonary bypass with your coronary revascularization?

In an effort to reduce morbidity and mortality attributable to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB),1 US surgeons performed 20% of all coronary artery bypass (CAB) operations offpump, without the use of CPB, in 2006.2 These surgeons were guided by several retrospective reviews of large databases that have shown off-pump CAB (OPCAB) is associated with lower risk-adjusted morbidity and mortality than cor...

Would You Like Some Syntactic Sugar With Your TBB?

We have begun implementation on a source-to-source transformer that greatly eases the burden of writing code that uses Intel Thread Building Blocks (TBB). TBB is a C++ library that provides a parallel programming interface that is at a higher level than raw threads. However, because it works within the bounds of standard C++, there is a lot of syntactic overhead involved with writing a TBB appl...

How would you like your e-newspaper? – converging the best from two worlds

The introduction of the e-newspaper, i.e. a newspaper based on e-paper technology brings new design challenges. In this paper we report from two parallel studies, an online questionnaire to newspaper readers and a questionnaire to newspaper designers. The aim was to find out what qualities to bring from print and online to the e-newspaper as initial input in the design process to design a usabl...