i First, I would like to thank Bernd Carsten Stahl for the opportunity to write this editorial, and for his vision, hard work, and dedication. It also has been a privilege to work with the editorial team, the reviewers, and, of course, the authors. IJTHI is off to a good start. It has been exciting for me to be part of a new journal and to see it go from just a concept to its fourth issue. Alth...

Data Streams unbounded sequences of time-varying data elements are pervasive. They occur in a variety of modern applications including the Web where blogs, feeds, and microblogs are increasingly adopted to distribute and present information in real-time streams. We foresee the need for languages, tools and methodologies for representing, managing and reasoning on data streams for the Semantic W...

ne of the most comprehensive data sets available about Americans—how tall they are, when they last visited a dentist, what sort of cereal they eat for breakfast, whether they have to pee during the night, and, if so, how often—comes from a series of studies conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Participants are chosen at random, interviewed at length, and subjecte...

Humans love medicinal drugs; we cannot get enough. Worldwide, the amount of money spent on medicines annually is growing exponen­ tially and is expected to reach around uS$1 trillion in 2012. So far, there has been no satisfactory explanation for human ‘pharmo philia’, our powerful trop­ ism to medicines. Most studies that have attempted to provide an explanation have focused on classical suppl...

The further characterization of the orphan GPCR GPR18 conducted by McHugh et al. in this issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology has generated a pharmacological profile that raises some interesting questions about the nomenclature of this receptor and may also prompt some questions about the pharmacological definition of the classical cannabinoid receptors, CB(1) and CB(2) . LINKED ARTICL...

Vaccines are a promising but still experimental treatment for melanoma. They are intended to stimulate immune responses against melanoma and by so doing, increase resistance against and slow the progression of this cancer. Key requirements for vaccines to be effective are that they contain antigens that can stimulate tumor-protective immune responses and that some of these antigens are present ...

The declining enrollment is a dilemma that many information systems programs are facing. In this study, we design a “Mobile Star” project to promote the information systems major to high school students in Texas. Each “Mobile Star” project consists of a mobile app development workshop and the student’s app showcase. We expect to explore whether the student’s perceived completion, perceived achi...

ALICEROBBIN ABSTRACT THISARTICLE EXAMINES SELECTED ECONOMIC and social indicators of our multiracial and multiethnic society at the end of the twentieth century to provide an information base for wise decisions about effective library services. The statistical profile describes the demography, economic well-being , and educational attainment of the principal racial and Hispanic origin groups. T...

Recent reports have indicated that China, India and Russia are headed for a major public health calamity with regard to AIDS if indeed the calamity is not already upon these countries. It is therefore of some concern that there is uncertainty associated with existing estimates of the number of HIV infected individuals in India. According to a report, the US Central Intelligence Agency has predi...