Combination products - love them or loathe them?

Adjustable sutures in strabismus surgery: why surgeons either love them or hate them after three decades.

Strabismus surgeons continually seek to achieve the best results from their surgery, which means stable motor alignment and sensory improvement with a minimum number of procedures. But the tables and algorithms that we employ for the number of muscles to be included in the surgery, and for the doses of surgery, are often not appropriate for difficult or unpredictable cases. The ability to modif...

Wear them, forget them.

New tobacco products: do smokers like them?

BACKGROUND There is little information about smokers who tried potentially reduced exposure products (PREPs) (Eclipse, Omni, Advance Lights, Accord, or Ariva), why they tried them, if they liked these products, and if they will continue to use them. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this qualitative study were to understand: (1) how smokers who tried PREPs learned about them, (2) reasons for first...

Distributed Recommender Systems and the Network Topologies that Love Them

One approach to distributed recommender systems is to have users sample products at random and randomly query one another for the best item they have found. We have been considering refinements to this approach that take advantage of a communication network; users may share information only with their immediate neighbors, who either by design or by nature may have common interests. In the “mail...

The Intricacies of a forest ecosystem or Nurse Logs and the Plants that Love Them

The purpose of this investigation was to find patterns (if any) that exist when comparing the dominant plant organisms atop nurse logs in two 12’x13’ quadrats along the Marsh Loop and Suspension Bridge trails at IslandWood. The intent of this investigation was to elucidate why certain plants grow on decaying wood. Two locations were chosen in the temperate second-growth forest at IslandWood. Tw...