Simulation has entered the mainstream of medical education internationally. The Women & Infants Hospital simulation program has been active since 2009 across all specialties and departments. Simulation is used to test systems, introduce new protocols, and provide essential education without putting patients at risk. During your fellowship, you will experience simulation in so many arenas you’ll...

Since the first commercial release of genetically modified (GM, also referred to as genetically engineered, GE) crops in the middle of 1990s, the research and development of transgenic biotechnology has made dramatic progress. To date, global cultivation area of GM crops has exceeded 120 million hectares (James, 2009) with extensive cultivation of herbicide-tolerant soybean and canola, insect-r...

After delivering a student lecture on the quantitative attributes of human infertility, the very poor quality of human sperm in comparison to other species, and the biologically unlikely long “time-topregnancy” statistics even among young people, I generally pose to my audience of several hundred young and healthy students the following question. “All of these characteristics would be enough to...

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CONTENTS The Growing Opportunities for Medical Research: DR. LEWELLYS F. BARKER ........................................... 449 The American Association for the Advancement of Science: The Trend of Thought in Physics: PROFESSOR W. F. G. SWANN ............. 452 The White Indians of the San Blas and Darien: DR. REGINALD G. HARRIS .................... ....................... 460 The James-Simpson-...

The migration towards Cloud environments is still hindered by several barriers. One of them is the low portability of the applications that are consuming Cloud services. This paper intends to provide an image of the state of the art in this particular topic and to identify the potential paths to follow in order to solve the problem. The main concerns are the portability reasons, scenarios, taxo...

Software engineering aims at techniques for producing better software products with limited resources. This encourages the reuse of the existing resources which are mostly available in terms of modules. Model Driven Development (MDD) is an approach which facilitates the reuse of existing models. Moreover, models are developed not only with high level of abstraction but also with better provisio...

Since 1984, the European Union (EU) has been funding fundamental, applied or clinical research in all life science disciplines through its multiannual framework programmes for research and technological development (FP). The funding opportunities are fostered by different instruments (Table 1) and range from cooperative projects involving researchers from multiple countries, disciplines and typ...

Partially fueled by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic, tuberculosis is the secondleading cause of infectious diseases–associated mortality globally and the leading cause of death among those infected with HIV. In 2010, there were an estimated 8.8 million incident cases of tuberculosis and approximately 1.5 million deaths attributed to tuberculosis. Increased public heath efforts h...

Despite these diffi culties, the need to think about the future of social-ecological systems cannot be avoided. Th e defi nition of sustainability includes the notion of non-decreasing wealth: sustainable policies meet the needs of the present without undermining future generations’ ability to meet their needs (Arrow et al. 2004). Inevitably, environmental actions aff ect future generations as ...