Easy to Swallow, Hard to Digest

Easy to chew, but hard to swallow – consumer perception of neutrally marinated meat

Background: Meat which has been injected or tumbled with water, salt, sugar and other ingredients, has been available on the Danish market for some decades and is now becoming increasingly common. However, it is not known whether this so-called neutrally marinated meat will be appropriated by consumers in the long term, or will be destined to be a marginal second rate product. Purpose: To explo...

Switching to the Euro: still hard to swallow.

Some Mushrooms are Hard to Digest: Gastrostomy Tube Exchange

BACKGROUND Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is an effective and safe mode of enteral nutrition for patients needing chronic enteric nutritional support. Exchanging PEG tubes may result in complications due to inexperience as well as due to lack of protocol. CASE REPORT We encountered a 73 year-old female with unnoticed, accidently detached portion of the internal bumper of a PEG tube...

Partial Digest is hard to solve for erroneous input data

The Partial Digest problem asks for the coordinates of m points on a line such that the pairwise distances of the points form a given multiset of (m 2 ) distances. Partial Digest is a well-studied problem with important applications in physical mapping of DNA molecules. Its computational complexity status is open. Input data for Partial Digest from real-life experiments are always prone to erro...

Upsloping ST segments. Easy to measure, hard to agree upon.

In this issue of Circulation, Okin and coworkers1 present the results of an impressive project designed to demonstrate the effects of measuring ST segment amplitude at different times after the end of QRS on diagnostic accuracy of the exercise ECG for detection of ischemia. In all likelihood, this was prompted by a recent report critical of ST/HR types of analysis for improved detection of isch...