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Statin-induced diabetes: too sweet a deal?

Bottom line Statins modestly increase blood glucose levels, which leads to 1 in 250 or so patients crossing the “diabetic threshold” in a 5-year period. Pre-existing elevated blood glucose levels, other diabetes risk factors, or higher statin doses might slightly increase the risk. This should not change statin prescribing, as statins reduce cardiovascular events and allcause mortality in appro...

Too Many Things to Do: How to Deal with the Dysfunctions of Multiple-goal Agencies

All federal agencies must cope with the challenges of trying to achieve success on the multiple goals laid out for them by Congress, the President, or the public at large. Recent economics and political science literature provides a theoretical framework that helps explain why agencies might succeed in achieving some goals and fail in achieving others: Agencies will systematically underperform ...

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

Deal or No Deal? - Asessing the Daily Deal Shopper

We build upon previous work done in online shopping segmentation but follow a customer-revealed approach by using an explorative cluster analysis on a sample of 11,848 daily deal shoppers located in Switzerland. We identify six segments into which the daily deal shoppers can be categorized: recreational shoppers, mobile shoppers, traditionalists, bargain hunters, socializers, and convenience se...

Syncretism and How to Deal with it in a Morphological Analyzer: a German Example

Syncretism is the area of the morphologysyntax interface where morphology fails the syntax. Inadequate treatment in the design of a morphological analyzer can lead to unbalanced performance of the analyzer either at generation, or at analysis. Furthermore, adequate and consistent treatment of syncretism is needed if the analyzer is to be used for language modeling, especially modeling of the sy...