Data-Guided Collection Development: A Promise Unfulfilled

Emotional intelligence: A promise unfulfilled?

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a relatively new construct in differential psychology. Proponents of EI have made strong claims for its importance in basic and applied psychology. This article considers whether the promise of EI has been fulfilled. We examine various fundamental challenges to establishing EI as a major individual differences factor, including cross-cultural issues. We then exami...

Pharmacogenetic Testing-An Unfulfilled Promise.

The Human Genome Project heralded great hope that the clinical use of individual genetic information would result in improved care through treatments tailored to an individual patient’s genotype. Such treatment would presumably reveal individual susceptibility to chronic diseases, thus preventing them, and lead to targeted pharmacotherapies based on an individual’s metabolism and susceptibility...

The Unfulfilled Promise of Usability Engineering

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The Unfulfilled Promise: Completing the Balkan Enlargement

The unfulfilled promise of melanoma vaccines.

INTRODUCTION There is a sense of impatience with the unfulfilled, decades-long promise of melanoma vaccines. The promise is kept alive by a series of encouraging small trials such as the randomized trial reported by Bystryn et al. (1) in this issue, by remarkable progress in the molecular definition of human melanoma antigens recognized by the immune system, and by opportunities for vaccine con...