Biological systems can offer computer security insights into how to engineer more effective artificial systems. While the authors believe this statement to be fundamentally true, it is unhelpfully vague what insights exactly? This paper argues that, in the light of recent paradigm shifts in a number of fields, a key insight biology can give us is a number of concrete engineering principles, in ...

Ten years ago, when our firm was asked to recruit a CEO or executive vice president and we asked the search committee if they would consider a physician, the answer was generally, “Sure, we’ll consider a physician, but we really need someone with a lot of experience in strategy, finance and operations.” The unsaid ending of that sentence was, “We don’t think physicians have those skills.” Five ...

Hard place: Zoos and aquariums are facing criticism for keeping animals in captivity under conditions that might not always match their requirements. (Photograph: Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net.) There’s always something exciting happening at the zoo — some cute little cub being born or making its first steps, or a gorilla taking selfies. The media love the visitor attractions as much as the school...

* » by BARBARA WILSON W. H. Auden's For the Time Being is "A Christmas Oratorio," combining elements of the traditional Christmas pageant and the medieval miracle play with the oratorio form. It uses contemporary language and popular 6ong techniques to present a story of great scope that is uniquely historical as well as modern. Varying verse forms and meters are employed as the equivalent to m...

Payment for research participation has raised ethical concerns, especially with respect to its potential for coercion. We argue that characterising payment for research participation as coercive is misguided, because offers of benefit cannot constitute coercion. In this article we analyse the concept of coercion, refute mistaken conceptions of coercion and explain why the offer of payment for r...

immune cells exist with interactive networks that dictate good health and disease, including cancer, both within and beyond the gut1–3. This emerging paradigm linking gut bac teria with extraintestinal cancer builds upon earlier work that tumour microenvironments interact with systemic immune and metabolic networks4, and, more specifically, with microbial– immune networks2,5,6. In this way, gut...

Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by chronic synovial inflammation, resulting in bone erosion and joint destruction. Diagnosis is based on clinical, laboratory, and radiologic findings. Conventional radiography has been the mainstay for diagnosis of joint damage and subsequent follow-up. X-rays can provide only indirect information on synovitis, however, and the modality is insensitive to e...

Traditionally, Internet has offered multimedia services independently of the services offered by companies associated to Telco (companies that traditionally offer telephony and associated services). In the last years, the technical community has assumed that the convergence of both worlds is a fact; however, there are many barriers to be removed. On one hand the emergence of cloud computing tec...

To highlight how historical scholarship can be used to teach students about a range of topics in psychology, I have chosen three sample articles from the journal History of Psychology that address gender, race/ethnicity, and the intersection of sexuality and disability in historical perspective. I outline how these articles can be incorporated into courses across the curriculum to deepen studen...

To deepen understanding and hasten the development of treatments, cancer needs to be modelled more accurately in vitro; applying tissue-engineering concepts and approaches in this field could bridge the gap between two-dimensional studies and in vivo animal models.