THE VARIED interests of the Venetian physician Nicolo Massa (d. 1569) found expression in a range of publications on subjects which included anatomy, syphilis, plague and other pestilential fevers, venesection, and logic. Successful as a writer, he was also renowned as a practitioner and as a teacher, though he never held a university chair. He combined a shrewd common sense and an eye to busin...

Every day engineers develop inventive, resourceful solutions to fix the newly discovered problems in society. Yet with every implemented decision comes benefits and repercussions. Engineers must understand both the national code of ethics and the code of ethics specific to their occupation in order to ensure that their proposed solution does not violate any rights protected within these ethical...

We present the first overview of a web archive user profile and the searching technology that supports it. Most web archives only support URL search and just a few provide fulltext search in response to users’ expectations. Their technology is essentially based on web search engines, which ignore the temporal dimension of collections. As consequence, the quality of results is poor. We suggest t...

Community Question Answering (CQA) services contain large archives of previously asked questions and their answers. We present a statistical topic model for modeling Question-Answering archives. The model explicitly captures relationships between questions and their answers by modeling topical dependencies. We show that the model achieves improved performance in retrieving the correct answer fo...

In this paper, we propose Mutualcast, a new delivery mechanism for content distribution in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Compared with prior one-to-many content distribution approaches, Mutualcast achieves full utilization of the upload bandwidths of the peer nodes, thereby maximizing the delivery throughput. Mutualcast splits the to-be-distributed content into many small blocks, so that the mor...

The first article in this special issue of CTR starts a cool air-conditioned room Calcutta public archive, far removed from the intense humidity and afternoon sun outside its protective...

Skill-mix initiatives have provided opportunities for radiographers to develop roles and achieve their potential, thus contributing to radiographer retention rates and increased job satisfaction. This reflective article explores two radiographic roles within an interprofessional context including the implications for confidence, competence, and future sustainability. These were reporting roles ...

In this paper, we propose Mutualcast, a new delivery mechanism for content distribution in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Compared with prior one-to-many content distribution approaches, Mutualcast splits the to-be-distributed content into many small blocks, so that more resourceful nodes may redistribute more blocks, and less resourceful nodes may redistribute less blocks. Each content block is ...