Can We Measure Memes?

Can We Measure Memes?

Memes are the fundamental unit of cultural evolution and have been left upon the periphery of cognitive neuroscience due to their inexact definition and the consequent presumption that they are impossible to measure. Here it is argued that although a precise definition of memes is rather difficult it does not preclude highly controlled experiments studying the neural substrates of their initiat...

Can we appropriately measure appropriateness?

A few years ago, at a national interventional cardiology meeting, the speaker regaled the audience with an anecdote that may have been apocryphal but was entirely believable. At some earlier meeting, this speaker had challenged his audience with 3 sequential questions to which he invited a show of hands. The first was, “Have any of you witnessed an inappropriate coronary intervention?” in respo...

Can We Measure Parton - Parton Cross Sections ?

How can we begin to measure recovery?

BACKGROUND There is a lack of consensus in the addiction treatment literature regarding the definition of substance abuse "recovery". METHODS This study utilized a review of the literature together with a participatory research design to construct a conceptual model of recovery from the perspectives of addiction treatment professionals, those recovering from addictions, and researchers. RES...

Myocardial strain: can we finally measure contractility?

The measurement of myocardial performance is of critical importance for the diagnosis and management of the patient with cardiac disease. Despite decades of investigation, the search for the optimal method to measure the contractile properties of the myocardium still continues. Extrapolations from experiments in isolated muscle preparations and the intact animal heart have resulted in invasive ...