Farm level environmental indicators; are they useful?

Environmental scans: how useful are they for primary care research?

[T]he focus shifts the locus of change from the individual to the environment in which the individual resides. Such a shift can provide crucial insight into realistic expectations related to health behaviors and the utilization of health services. By examining environmental or contextual factors, researchers can collect data to guide the design of effective health programs uniquely tailored to ...

Chatbots: Are they Really Useful?

Chatbots are computer programs that interact with users using natural languages. This technology started in the 1960’s; the aim was to see if chatbot systems could fool users that they were real humans. However, chatbot systems are not only built to mimic human conversation, and entertain users. In this paper, we investigate other applications where chatbots could be useful such as education, i...

too many students’ congresses, are they necessary and useful?

Flux Caches: What Are They and Are They Useful?

In this paper, we introduce the concept of flux caches envisioned to improve processor performance by dynamically changing the cache organization and implementation. Contrary to the traditional approaches, processors designed with flux caches instead of assuming a hardwired cache organization change their cache ”design” on program demand. Consequently program (data and instruction) dynamic beha...

[Statins--are they potentially useful in rheumatology?].

For more than 30 years statins have been successfully used in patients with hypercholesterolemia and cardiovascular diseases. Recently, there is a growing body of evidence, that statins exert effects by much exceeding the effect of cholesterol level decrease. Inhibition of earlier stages of cholesterol biosynthesis pathway (not influencing the very cholesterol level) results in blocking the int...