Gaining from gaming

Gaining more from gamma globulins.

The use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), which is immunoglobulin G pooled from thousands of healthy donors, in the treatment of immunodeficient and autoimmune diseases has grown during the past 2 decades. Although its initial application was largely limited to replacement therapy in hypogammaglobulinemia, IVIg is gaining acceptance as therapy for autoimmune thrombocytopenia purpura, and a ...

Gaining strength and focus from hardship.

Three members of my family have been diagnosed with cancer in the past five years. During the fall of my freshman year of high school, my older brother was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. His health began to deteriorate in August 2006. My mother would take him to the hospital weekly, insisting that the doctors run every test on her ill-ridden son. Chris's diagnosis in November 2006 a...

GAINING ACCESS FOR RESEARCH Reflections from Experience

This paper reflects on the experiences of facilitating and maintaining qualitative research access into a sample of international hotel groups. The existing research methodology literature tends to simplify the access process by explaining it through a number of stages. The fieldwork experience of the authors suggests that the propositions stated in literature are partly relevant; however, ther...

Comprehensible Knowledge Discovery: Gaining Insight from Data

Large databases are routinely being collected in government, science, business and medicine. A variety of techniques from statistics, signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and neural networks have been proposed to help people understand the data by discovering predictive models of the data. However, research in data mining has not paid attention to the factors that make lear...

What is microbiology gaining from genomics?