The Island of Mauritius had formerly the reputation of being one of the healthiest of the British colonies within the tropics. Its character has sadly changed. For several years past fever and dysentery have prevailed extensively amongst the Indian population, and the annual rate of mortality has steadily increased until it has attained an average of 31 per thousand in the rural districts, and ...

Trust in SSL-based communication on the Internet is provided by Certificate Authorities in the form of signed certificates. When an organization uses an SSL certificate, it protects users’ sensitive information by encrypting all traffic between its servers and the users’ web browser. Sadly, current web browsers’ approaches to check the revocation status of a certificate, suffer from certain per...

It’s a big problem driven by a big success. Doxorubicin (Adriamycin; Pfi zer) and other anthracyclines effectively treat leukemias, lymphomas, and several types of solid tumors, including breast cancer. The success of these chemotherapies is one driver of the dramatic improvements in survival rates for childhood cancers since the 1970s. Sadly, the drugs have been linked to subsequent heart fail...

Eleven years ago, on June 1, 1991, Dr J.P. Mohr addressed delegates of the International Conference on Stroke, Geneva, about anticoagulants as a therapeutic strategy in stroke. He bemoaned the fact that heparin and warfarin had the “bad luck” to be manufactured initially in the post–World War II period, before drugs were evaluated by controlled clinical trials. As a consequence, clinicians judg...

Emile Durkheim’s “Antisémitisme et crise sociale,” written in 1899 during the Dreyfus Affair in France, is introduced. The introduction summarizes the principal contributions that “Antisémitisme et crise sociale” makes to the sociology of antiSemitism, relates those contributions to Durkheim’s broader theoretical assumptions and concerns, situates his analysis of anti-Semitism in its social and...

The era of multicore processors, capable of running multiple tasks concurrently, has arrived. Sadly, most existing software and even new applications being developed are not ready to take advantage of these new multiprocessing capabilities, and, thus, more processing cores do not translate into better performance when executing these applications. To tackle this problem, we envision the creatio...

Discussion about airway management is common amongst clinicians involved in critical care, regardless of background. The technique of rapid sequence induction and intubation (RSI) was described in 1970 and there are many accepted variations in modern day practice. Sadly this can lead to difficulty, particularly in the event of an airway misadventure, as clinicians may be subject to post hoc cri...

Non agentive’ object experiencer verbs (e.g. interest) as well as achievement verbs (e.g. find) are traditionally taken to be incompatible with oriented adverbs like cleverly. Research on large corpora disconfirms this claim. This paper accounts for the distribution of these ’weakly agentive’ verbs with dispositional adverbs (cleverly, patiently) and psychological adverbs (sadly, anxiously), fo...

In the era of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Quantum Physics Simulations, data centers play in the world ICT infrastructure a role as big as (sadly) their power consumption. In many cases, a surprising amount of such consumption is due to idle resources, either introduced to face workload peaks or leftovers of workload fragmentation. In this context, proactive workload dispatching has the chanc...

Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (HEH) is extremely rare, occurring in 1 to 2 per 100,000, with chemotherapy options not well defined. Our case involved a 49-year-old female who had hepatic masses and metastasis to the lungs with a liver biopsy revealing HEH. After developing a rash from sorafenib, thalidomide was started with the progression of disease stabilized. Resection is only an ...