Clinical Trials Have Gone Global: Is This a Good Thing?

Clinical Trials Have Gone Global: Is This a Good Thing?

Clinical trials are needed globally to reduce disease burdens by helping developing safe and effective new therapies and vaccines. These solutions may be for noncommunicable diseases like cancer and diabetes, or, as is especially needed in the poorest regions of the world, infectious disease. Developing countries are underrepresented in research due to lack of commercial viability and trained r...

Is Cooperation a Good Thing?

Is Interactivity a Good Thing

This paper investigates whether adding interactivity to diagrammatic representations aids learning. More specifically, the analyses focus on the extent to which 3D interactive diagrams facilitate the comprehension of a geometry concept, the stereographic projection, that is usually taught using 2D diagrams. Four Interactive Learning Environments (ILE) were built in order to test the effectivene...

When change is not a good thing.

Over the past 40 years, our understanding of the epidemiology and natural history of a number of common chronic diseases has been markedly enhanced by serial, nationally representative, cross-sectional surveys such as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (1 ), longitudinal cohorts such as the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study (2 ), and more disease-specif...

Curiosity is addictive, and this is not an entirely good thing.