Awake Intubation Techniques, and Why It Is Still an Important Skill to Master

Why Is It Important to Treat Spasticity?

J Rehabil Med Suppl 41, 2003 DOI 10.1080/16501960310010160 This review of the long-term management of spasticity addresses some of the clinical dilemmas in the management of patients with chronic disability. As it is important for clinicians to have clear objectives in patient treatment, the available treatment strategies are set out. Why is it important to treat spastic patients and what treat...

Why It Is Important to Precisiate Goals

Objectives are usually imprecise (fuzzy). In many real-life situations, our objectives are imprecise (fuzzy). A company may want to have a good growth rate, an excellent level of customer satisfaction, etc. A university program may seek excellent quality of graduates, steady growth of the program, more good students and faculty in the program, etc. Many such statements use imprecise (fuzzy) wor...

Why Network Diameter is Still Important

It has become fashionable to argue against research on new interconnection networks by claiming that with wormhole switching, the dominant communication method in modern parallel computers, routing latency is insensitive to the diameter and other topological parameters of the network; hence, the inference that network topology is unimportant and the edict that we should adhere to 2D and 3D mesh...

Rheumatoid cachexia: what is it and why is it important?

Radiogenomics: what it is and why it is important.

In recent years, a new direction in cancer research has emerged that focuses on the relationship between imaging phenotypes and genomics. This direction is referred to as radiogenomics or imaging genomics. The question that subsequently arises is: What is the practical significance of elucidating this relationship in improving cancer patient outcomes. In this article, I address this question. A...