A Rapid Feedback App: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Extended Democracy

Conceptual Modelling and Ontology: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Commentary: describing differences--possibilities and pitfalls.

Reports of attempts to investigate, characterize, compare, and contrast those who are mentally ill fill the literature and invite controversy. It seems to be part of human nature to reestablish and define the differences between us. Creative descriptive studies continually challenge our perspective, yet they must be balanced with thoughtful consideration of possible selection bias, an understan...

Teaching Creative Interface Design: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Interface design is an essential aspect of any interactive system and thus a core component of most Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) curricula. Teaching creative interface design is, however, a challenging task, as it involves both an understanding of HCI theory and practice. A trade-off exists between enforcing the use of standard design aids such as guidelines and patterns, or encouraging the...

BDMS Performance Evaluation: Practices, Pitfalls, and Possibilities

Much of the IT world today is buzzing about Big Data, and we are witnessing the emergence of a new generation of data-oriented platforms aimed at storing and processing all of the anticipated Big Data. The current generation of Big Data Management Systems (BDMSs) can largely be divided into two kinds of platforms: systems for Big Data analytics, which today tend to be batch-oriented and based o...

Competing risks in epidemiology: possibilities and pitfalls.

BACKGROUND In studies of all-cause mortality, the fundamental epidemiological concepts of rate and risk are connected through a well-defined one-to-one relation. An important consequence of this relation is that regression models such as the proportional hazards model that are defined through the hazard (the rate) immediately dictate how the covariates relate to the survival function (the risk)...