Dialysis amyloid: the bottom line

The bottom line.

The bottom line

In the springtime, young men’s thoughts turn to love, but old men begin to contemplate retirement. I have lost count now, but this spring will be either the fourth or fifth time I will have retired and I am now looking forward to the next things I want to do. When I was in my fifties, twenty years ago, I was worried about retirement, having seen what happened to people I knew when they were tos...

The bottom line.

An annual investment of $92 billion for highways and bridges, between 2004 and 2009, is necessary to maintain the physical condition and performance characteristics of the system. An annual investment of $125.6 billion for highways and bridges is necessary to improve the physical condition and performance characteristics of the system over 20 years. An annual capital investment of $19 billion i...

PSA screening: the bottom line.

Usability and the Bottom Line

Cost–benefit analysis Although usability’s broad benefits are impressive, a cost-benefit analysis might be a necessary first step in introducing usability into your organization or a particular project. In usability cost-benefit analyses, the goal is to estimate the costs and benefits of specific usability activities—such as prototyping, usability testing, heuristic evaluation, and so on—and co...