To curtail the rising tide of antiscience threatening health and progress society, scientists are increasingly engaging with public. Here, we describe our approach to write accessible books based on personal stories as a means help spread scientific literacy those who normally do not read science. The dismal response coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in some technologically advanced societies...

The report of a working party of the Royal College of Physicians, Acute Medicine: making it work for patients, seeks to improve hospital care of patients who are acutely ill and highlights the developing role of consultant physicians in acute medicine.

Creativity is indispensable for more innovative interactive system development. This tutorial is relevant to anyone involved in large projects that are exploiting new technologies or developing new interactive systems and media. The tutorial will familiarize participants with both the need for creativity, and the techniques and tools to bring this about. It will interleave short presentations w...

Teaching at universities is mostly constrained to using blackboards, overhead transparencies and sometimes flip– charts as basic tools. In order to consolidate the course material, and as a preparation to written or oral exams, students have been using course notes, textbooks or copies of transparencies for decades. However, with the advent of powerful hardware and network technology, the conce...

Artemov’s logic of proofs LP is a complete calculus of propositions and proofs, which is now becoming a foundation for the evidence-based approach to reasoning about knowledge. Additional atoms in LP have form t : F , read as “t is a proof of F” (or, more generally, as “t is an evidence for F”) for an appropriate system of terms t called proof polynomials. In this paper, we answer two well-know...

Effective treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been hampered by the heterogeneity of the disease. Although early intervention can result in disease remission, it requires early diagnosis - and current diagnostic tests are not sufficiently accurate or sensitive in the early stages of RA. As a result, RA is typically diagnosed only once damage to the joints has already begun, a time at whic...