Common Cents

A schema for common cents.

Drawings from memory of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter were obtained from 125 undergraduates. The modal recalls for the heads of all four coins were identical, suggesting that a schema for coins exists. In an attempt to have the schema produced directly, another 75 students designed either a 2-, 7-, or 20-cent piece that would fit into our present currency. The modal drawing for this task w...

Common sense, dollars and cents, and drug-eluting stents.

ew technologies in medicine almost always bring higher osts to the medical system. Most new medical technologies o not offer cost offsets via prevention of subsequent pisodes of illness or reductions in labor costs. Two papers n the current issue of the Journal (1,2) document an xception to the rule of purely increased costs of a new echnology. However, despite demonstrating offsetting cost avi...

Patient joint counts in rheumatoid arthritis--"cents-ible or cents-less?".

Africa's 32 Cents Solution for HIV/AIDS

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 2 Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 3 Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 4 Centre for Imported and Tropical Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases Ullevaal, Oslo Un...

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