Serious consideration is needed about which non-communicable diseases to discuss at this month’s United Nations meeting if people in low income countries are to benefit. The diseases selected are more problematic in high income than in low income countries. Stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and chronic obstructive lung disease primarily affect older adults while low income countries remain large...

With the increasing popularity of Component-Based Software Engineering, considering non-functional properties like QoS and security becomes an ever-important challenge. Both issues are crosscutting concerns that benefit from a separated consideration as aspects. The interference of both is a non-trivial problem that has to be dealt with at various levels from specification at design time to run...

Even though photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a firmly established niche treatment for non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), its potential as a treatment for other dermatoses has been somewhat neglected. It is disappointing that little clinical research has been conducted in this area, as it may prove to be even more useful for treating dermatoses than it is for NMSC. 1 Dr Gerald Weinstein and colleague...

This paper proposes a new dependency-based analysis of coordination that generalizes over existing analyses by combining symmetrical and asymmetrical analyses of coordination into a DAG structure. The new joint structure is shown to be theoretically grounded in the notion of connections between words just as the formal definition of other types of dependencies. Beside formalizations of shared d...

There is now compelling evidence that the complexity of higher organisms correlates with the relative amount of non-coding RNA rather than the number of protein-coding genes. Previously dismissed as ‘‘junk DNA’’, it is the non-coding regions of the genome that are responsible for regulation, facilitating complex temporal and spatial gene expression through the combinatorial effect of numerous m...