Enzyme assays: plea for common sense.

Presupposition Accommodation: A Plea for Common Sense

A Plea for Common Sense: Extended Abstract for Itallc`96 (categorisation: Formal Theories of Pragmatics and Discourse)

Common Sense

I like your columns, but they’re really all just common sense,” a client told me. He didn’t have a software background, and my columns were his first introduction to systematic ways of understanding software projects. To my chagrin, the net effect of a well-written column appeared to be that he thought software engineering was trivial! The idea that good software engineering “is all just common...

Does the central venous pressure predict fluid responsiveness? An updated meta-analysis and a plea for some common sense.

BACKGROUND Despite a previous meta-analysis that concluded that central venous pressure should not be used to make clinical decisions regarding fluid management, central venous pressure continues to be recommended for this purpose. AIM To perform an updated meta-analysis incorporating recent studies that investigated indices predictive of fluid responsiveness. A priori subgroup analysis was p...

A Plea for the More Common Use of Lumbar Puncture