Diabetes: Easier to prevent, but difficult to tame

Prevention of Iodine Deficiency: Difficult to Implement, More Difficult to Sustain

The Imperative to Prevent Diabetes

D iabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. and increases the risk of death twofold over agematched individuals. Even these are conservative numbers, as diabetes has been found to be underreported on death certificates (1). These findings are even more remarkable for the recent decline seen in diabetes mortality rates due to improved management of cardiovascular risk factors (2)...

Carbon monoxide poisoning: easy to treat but difficult to recognise.

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a common medical emergency and a frequent cause of deliberate or accidental death. It can cause acute and chronic central nervous system damage which may be minimised by prompt treatment with 100% oxygen or hyperbaric oxygen therapy. However, recognition of this intoxication can be difficult. Failure to diagnose it may have disastrous effects on the patient, an...

Parallel world - gestures: nice to use, but difficult to learn

Gestures on an interactive surface are mostly hard to discover and therefore difficult to learn. That is the major drawback which should be resolved for allowing gesture-based input to develop into an easy and widely used input-technique. A well known gesture is in average faster, than moving to a small button. Gestures do not consume place of an interface and you can apply them on the whole su...

High Reward Makes Items Easier to Remember, but Harder to Bind to a New Temporal Context

Learning through reward is central to adaptive behavior. Indeed, items are remembered better if they are experienced while participants expect a reward, and people can deliberately prioritize memory for high- over low-valued items. Do memory advantages for high-valued items only emerge after deliberate prioritization in encoding? Or, do reward-based memory enhancements also apply to unrewarded ...