Developing Online Czech Proofreader Tool: Achievements, Limitations and Pitfalls

DNA Barcoding Bromeliaceae: Achievements and Pitfalls

BACKGROUND DNA barcoding has been successfully established in animals as a tool for organismal identification and taxonomic clarification. Slower nucleotide substitution rates in plant genomes have made the selection of a DNA barcode for land plants a much more difficult task. The Plant Working Group of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) recommended the two-marker combination rbcL/ma...

Software Reliability Modelling: Some Achievements and Limitations

Achievements and Limitations of Evidence-Based Medicine.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has a long history, but was revived in the early 1990s by a campaign mounted by a movement that took its name. The EBM movement focused attention on the need for greater objectivity in medical decision-making and led to the Cochrane Collaboration, which provides reviews of evidence on the basis of comparative research. Important limitations of EBM's effect on medic...

Rating scales in depression: limitations and pitfalls

Since the introduction of antidepressants to psychopharmacology in the 1960s, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) has been the most frequently used rating scale for depression. When used as a scale for prediction of outcome with antidepressants, the HAM-D, by its total score, has obtained limited use analogous to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed (DSM-IV...

Chapter 7: Achievements and limitations of cervical cytology screening.

This chapter reviews the contribution of cervical cytology, what makes it successful, the management of screen positives and how technological advances may affect its use in the future. Cervical screening has saved hundreds of thousands of lives but has not been available to women in the poorest countries. In countries where wide coverage has been achieved and quality assurance is in place, inc...