Authors should have used marginal analysis

scientific authors should be more careful

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Should recognizers have ears?

Recently, techniques motivated by human auditory perception are being applied in main-stream speech technology and there seems to be renewed interest in implementing more knowledge of human speech communication into a design of a speech recognizer. The paper discusses the author's experience with applying auditory knowledge to automatic recognition of speech. It advances the notion that the rea...

Should central venous catheters be used to drain pleural effusions? Authors' response

We would like to thank MacDuff and Grant [1], as well as the many others who accessed it, for their interest in our article [2] on using central venous catheters for pleural drainage. We started using this technique about 5 years ago with the aim of achieving better patient comfort without compromising on adequate pleural drainage. We did not at that time have access to the specific chest drain...

Authors should have gotten the facts right on community treatment orders.

Which bowel preparation should be used for colonoscopy in patients who have had bariatric surgery?