Answering the Call

The NSPAPPH: answering the call.

The demand for policy and environmental changes to increase healthy behaviors, such as physical activity, generates a call for a changing workforce. Today’s public health practitioner must be able to step beyond the instructional settings to influence organizations, corporate and government alike, to adopt formal and informal policies, and to influence change within physical and social environm...

Memory Networks: Answering the Call of the Hippocampus

Without the hippocampus, experiences disappear without a memory trace. A recent study shows that changing synaptic strength within the hippocampus alters circuit function in widely distributed brain networks.

Answering Incoming Call for Implicit Authentication Using Smartphone

Smartphones are being used to keep sensitive data and make private transaction other than making calls and receive short messages. Thus, authentication of the smartphones becomes very crucial and important aspect. However, users feel inconvenience and difficult with current authentication methods, from password up to physical biometrics. Implicit authentication system emerged intending to impro...

Answering the Millennium Call for the Right to Maternal Health: The Need to Eliminate User Fees

The research registry - answering the call to register every research study involving human participants

Imagine you're a patient signing a consent form for an operation and only knowing about the good outcomes and none of the risks. This is akin to what is happening inmuch of science today. Negative studies don't get published and positive studies sometimes get published twice [1]. Such publication bias is skewing the research base to the detriment of scientific progress. There is strong evidence...