If philosophical moral reflection tends to improve moral behaviour, one might expect that professional ethicists will, on average, behave morally better than non-ethicists. One potential source of insight into the moral behaviour of ethicists is philosophers ’ opinions about ethicists ’ behaviour

A central idea in marketing and diffusion research is that influentials—a minority of individuals who influence an exceptional number of their peers—are important to the formation of public opinion. Here we examine this idea, which we call the “influentials hypothesis,” using a series of computer

P ublic involvement in scientificresearch is not new, particularly withrespect to clinically relevant research. In the 1900s, for example, Mary Lasker pushed for a disease eradication model of health, while the activism of patients with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s helped to shape research agendas in the early part of the HIV epidemic [1]. Today, crowd-sourced funding for research is becoming more common, with patients directly funding the work of scientists. Individuals still make a difference: Bill Gates, for example, has been supporting and shaping research in malaria and HIV vaccines for years through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In fact, the idea that patients or even the extended public should be routinely involved in science, specifically in the review of grant proposals, is already well described, for example, in the review of

In this paper, we survey recent work on peer-to-peer systems, and venture some opinions about future requirements for research. The paper is a survey to support...

The LOCKSS project has developed and deployed in a worldwide test a peer-to-peer system for preserving access to journals and other archival information published on the Web. It consists of a large number of independent, low-cost, persistent web caches that cooperate to detect and repair damage

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on collecting and aggregating peers ’ opinions. Fuzzy techniques are used in the evaluation and synthesis of all the opinions expressed by peers. The behavior of the proposed system is described by comparison with probabilistic approaches. 1

The need for post-publication peer review in plant science publishing

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The Report and Opinion is an international journal with a purpose to enhance our natural and scientific knowledge dissemination in the world under the free publication principle. Papers submitted could be reviews, objective descriptions, research reports, opinions/debates, news, letters, and other