‘Garbage in, garbage out’

Garbage in , Hollywood Out !

As military forces around the world embrace modelling and simulation as a fundamental enabling technology necessary to help them meet strategic objectives, the limitations and potential misuses of these tools and the processes that use them are worth closer examination. Of particular concern is the potential for decision-makers to be unduly influenced by state-of-the-art animation and 3D graphi...

SIGPLAN ACM Garbage In / Garbage Out March Möbius

Algorithms for extracting the roots of polynomials of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th degree are usually presented as cookbook recipes, with no insight about how such a recipe works or how it might have been discovered. This note shows how a clever high school student could use transformations (translation, scaling, rotation, inversion) of the complex plane to discover root-extraction methods for these po...

Throwing out the Garbage Cases

AS AMERICA'S CORRECTIONAL POPULATIONS HAVE ROCKETED UPWARD since the 1970s, researchers have quite properly focused attention on prisons and prisoners. Yet examinations ofthe US punishment record must look beyond prison gates, as criminal justice sanctions also trigger a range of formal and informal collateral consequences. For those so punished, employment restrictions and other collateral san...

Computerised-hepatitis B-model is subject to processing axiom: garbage in, garbage out.

Garbage in, garbage out: A critical evaluation of strategies used for validation of immunohistochemical biomarkers

The use of immunohistochemistry (IHC) in clinical cohorts is of paramount importance in determining the utility of a biomarker in clinical practice. A major bottleneck in translating a biomarker from bench-to-bedside is the lack of well characterized, specific antibodies suitable for IHC. Despite the widespread use of IHC as a biomarker validation tool, no universally accepted standardization g...