Feeding frenzy

Frenzy: A Platform for Friendsourcing

Although micro-task crowdwork was popularized by the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) labor-market platform, it is useful in many other contexts and communities as well. Unfortunately, several MTurk design choices, such as worker anonymity and isolation, are problematic in other environments. This paper introduces Frenzy, a platform for friendsourcing. Frenzy helps people who are closely connected in a ...

Disability And The Managed Care Frenzy: A Cautionary Note

4 Ja n 20 00 “ Thermometers ” of Speculative Frenzy

Establishing unambiguously the existence of speculative bubbles is an ongoing controversy complicated by the need of defining a model of fundamental prices. Here, we present a novel empirical method which bypasses all the difficulties of the previous approaches by monitoring external indicators of an anomalously growing interest in the public at times of bubbles. From the definition of a bubble...

Disability and the managed care frenzy: a cautionary note.

Sham Feeding? Same Feeding?

accepted, more obvious evidence is needed. In PPI, return of colonic motility is a hindmost concern; it takes 48 to 72 hours. Sham feeding enhances gastric emptying and increases rectosigmoid pressure activity. However, the influence of gum chewing on colonic motility is not clear. Alvimopan, a peripherally-acting μ-opioid receptor antagonist, was recently approved for the reduction of PPI afte...