Five uneasy pieces about pre-test probability

Deconstructing the mental health crisis: 5 uneasy pieces.

One in 3 of us will experience mental illness in our lifetime, and yet the current treatments as well as the development of new strategies haven’t been overly encouraging.1 In econom­ ically developed countries mental illness exerts an enormous social and economic toll; in Canada, for instance, more than 500 000 people will not go to work daily owing to mental ill­ ness.2 The problem, of course...

Consistent Query Answering: Five Easy Pieces

Consistent query answering (CQA) is an approach to querying inconsistent databases without repairing them first. This invited talk introduces the basics of CQA, and discusses selected issues in this area. The talk concludes with a summary of other relevant work and an outline of potential future research topics.

Five easy pieces: the obesity paradigm.

Efforts to eradicate cardiovascular disease (CVD) are progressing no faster than The Race for the Cure1 is in breast cancer. In the case of CVD, although therapies for the ravages of atherosclerosis continue to improve, the prevalence of disease is more than keeping pace. Recently, the World Health Organization has predicted that today’s 17 million deaths worldwide attributable to heart disease...

Teaching about Water Relations in Plant Cells: An Uneasy Struggle

University students often struggle to understand the role of water in plant cells. In particular, osmosis and plasmolysis appear to be challenging topics. This study attempted to identify student difficulties (including misconceptions) concerning osmosis and plasmolysis and examined to what extent the difficulties could be revised during a plant physiology course. A questionnaire was developed ...

Additional file 1. Fagan’s nomograms of pre-test and post-test probability of candidaemia