Dumbing Down Dentistry

Is the system dumbing down research?

As biologists, we are all familiar with the feedback mechanisms that control gene expression, enzyme activity and other biological processes. The cell detects a deficit in a certain protein or compound and switches on gene expression or activates the enzymes that metabolize the required compound. As soon as supply meets demand, the product itself then serves as a signal to stop gene expression ...

Dumbing down nursing would be a retrograde step.

David Cameron's plans for nursing would represent a backward step for the profession if they were implemented (news May 13, analysis May 20). Nursing is a career for dedicated individuals who are not afraid of responsibility or decision-making.

Learning for Semantic Interpretation: Scaling Up without Dumbing Down

Most recent research in learning approaches to natural language have studied fairly \low-level" tasks such as morphology, part-ofspeech tagging, and syntactic parsing. However, I believe that logical approaches may have the most relevance and impact at the level of semantic interpretation, where a logical representation of sentence meaning is important and useful. We have explored the use of in...

Developments in social impact measurement in the third sector : scaling up or dumbing down ?

This paper outlines the merits of two approaches to social impact measurement that are currently the subject of debate within the third sector: Social Accounting & Audit (SAA) and Social Return On Investment (SROI). Although there are significant similarities between the methods, a number of important differences remain. In particular, while SAA involves a more „conventional‟ mix of narrative a...

Cosmetic dentistry is still dentistry.