Charmed to be sure

Just to be sure.

I read with interest the recently published online article by Hasegawa et al. It was the title which first triggered my interest, including the phrase ‘double blind’. Wow, a double blinded study on acupuncture! This is of course the ‘highest’ level of research one can achieve in randomised controlled trials, and consequently highly appreciated among acupuncture researchers. However, it has been...

How to be sure to make a mistake

Consensus sequences are widely used in molecular biology but they have many flaws. As a result, binding sites of proteins and other molecules are missed during studies of genetic sequences and important biological effects cannot be seen. Information theory provides a mathematically robust way to avoid consensus sequences. Instead of using consensus sequences, sequence conservation can be quanti...

Beyond Usability for Safety Critical Systems: How to be SURE

While a significant effort is currently being undertaken by the CHI community in order to apply and extend current usability evaluation techniques to new kinds of interaction techniques very little has been done to improve the reliability of software offering these kinds of interaction techniques. As these new interaction techniques are currently more and more used in the field of command and c...

Citations—be sure to have a good title

Remote sensing studies of impact craters: how to be sure?

After previous studies on impact craters in the eastern Sahara, particularly in Chad [2,15] and Libya [1], the paper by Paillou et al. [11] provides a good opportunity to discuss some important aspects of impact craters. They are a dominant landform on our Moon, and on other atmosphereless bodies (including planets and the satellites of planets) in our solar system. On the Earth, impact craters...