A Call for More Snow Sampling

The No-Destination Ship of Priority-Setting in Healthcare: A Call for More Democracy

In dealing with scarcity of resources within healthcare systems, decision-makers inevitably have to make choices about which services to fund. Setting priorities represents a challenging task that requires systematic, explicit and transparent methodologies with focus on economic efficiency. In addition, the engagement of the general public in the process of decision-making has been regarded as ...

A Call for Feather Sampling

Parallel Optical Snow and Sampling Importance Re-sampling (SIR)

Parallel optical snow is a particular kind of image sequence where all of the objects move parallel to one another. The problem is to determine the direction of this parallel optical snow. It has been shown that there exists a solution to this problem via a Fourier transform. Our objective is to solve this problem without using a Fourier transform. Instead, we use Sampling Importance Re-samplin...

a more rational method for sampling of airborne fibrocenic dust in epidemiology of pneumoconioses

current sampling instruments of respirable dust (rd) may over estimate the inhaled dose by up to 400% depending on the size distribution of airborne dust. this limitation and the practice of assigning a single value for rd to all jobs regardless of the level of activity are incompatible with the advances in occupational epidemiology. a new dust sampler designed to estimate pulmonary deposition ...

A Call for a Backward Design to Knowledge Translation

Despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. This editorial brings together and builds on previous Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. The proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...