Confusing title and misleading assumptions

The affective domain and social networking: definitorial issues and misleading assumptions

Higher education goes beyond the acquisition of knowledge to “inspire and enable individuals to develop their capabilities to the highest potential levels throughout life, so that they grow intellectually, are well equipped for work, can contribute effectively to society and achieve personal fulfillment” [1]. Ramsden‟s statement clearly indicates that education is about more than transmitting i...

Confusing cortical columns.

T he late developmental neurobiologist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Victor Hamburger told me during one of our discussions about the distinction between boring data and exciting concepts, ‘‘one can spend an entire lifetime correcting a flawed paper published in reputable journal and still loose the battle if people like the basic idea’’ (V. Hamburger, personal communicatio...

Are troponins confusing?

Correspondence to: Dr P O Collinson, Department of Chemical Pathology, St George’s Hospital, London SW17 0QT, UK; paul.collinson@ stgeorges.nhs.uk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T he ability to measure the cardiac specific markers, cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and cardiac troponin I (cTnI) (the cardiac troponins), has produced a paradigm shift in the assessment of patients with susp...

Colour-coded wristbands confusing.

Misleading Reference

We just became aware that the article [1] published in Entropy 2009 contains a false reference. From the list of references in [1] one gets the impression that the manuscript [2] has been accepted for publication in the journal Biophyical Chemestry. We have contacted the editors of that journal and they could tell us that [2] is a rejected manuscript, which is also the reason why the manuscript...