Just as for people, a new year is a good time for a journal to stop, look back, and start a new beginning, hoping for a good season ahead. This is what we have been doing each year in the Croatian Medical Journal for the last twenty years. We will probably never stop doing this, even when we become an august journal, because the world of scientific publishing rapidly changes. This year, we pres...

The journals of the International Union of Crystallography have grown in size and number over the past 60 years to match developments in scientific practice and technique. High quality of publication has always been at the forefront of editorial policy and ways in which this has been achieved are described. In particular, the development of standard exchange and archive formats for crystallogra...

We introduce here the inaugural issue of the new scientific journal Translation. The overarching aim of this endeavor is to establish a new forum for a broad spectrum of research in the area of protein synthesis in living systems ranging from structural biochemical, evolutionary and regulatory aspects of translation to the fundamental questions related to post-translational control of somatic p...

Autonomous Systems (ASes) in the Internet use BGP to perform interdomain routing. BGP routing policies are mainly determined by the business relationships between neighboring ASes, which can be classified into three types: provider-to-customer, peer-to-peer, and sibling-to-sibling. ASes usually do not export provider routes and peer routes to providers or peers. It has been proved that if all A...

Agriculture has a key role to play in reducing poverty and hunger in many developing countries. About 75% of the world's poor live in rural areas and most are dependent on agriculture and related activities in the rural economy. For this reason the benefits for developing countries’ farmers have been shown to be substantial if OECD member countries reformed their agricultural policies. The issu...

sweeping changes have taken place in the world’s economy in recent decades, changes that have reshaped the structure of employment on a global scale. national economies are now more integrated into the global system more than any other time in the recent past. the volume of international trade and the magnitude of cross-border capital flows have reached historically high levels. advances in com...