God Shall Wipe Away All Tears. Full Anthem

Information Mediation and Hop: Do Not Wipe away Footprints

In this paper, we investigate the effect of listing mediation history in the context of social network service, which has been recognized as a crucial platform for word-of-mouth diffusion. We focus on how people continuously mediate a message which is previously created. Information mediation refers to active participation of relaying an inbound message to outbound subscription nodes with sendi...

Shall We Stop All Unsolicited Email Messages?

Spam is commonly defined as unsolicited email messages, and the goal of spam filtering is to eliminate these messages. In this paper, we argue that not all unsolicited email messages are useless to recipients, and dropping all unsolicited messages is not optimal for either the recipient or the sender. Increasing the sender’s cost (with stamps, puzzles or tarpits) has been another approach aimed...

'In God we trust, all others (must) bring data'.

"In God we trust; all others bring data".

My last several columns reflected upon the paucity of rigorous scientific methodology used to generate evidence in support of the positive outcomes reported by pharmacists’ direct patient care services. I have received both positive and negative comments about these pieces. I continue to encourage readers to supply examples of literature reflecting pharmacists’ actions and will reflect upon one...

High incidence of acute full-thickness rotator cuff tears

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Epidemiological studies of full-thickness rotator cuff tears (FTRCTs) have mainly investigated degenerative lesions. We estimated the population-based incidence of acute FTRCT using a new diagnostic model. PATIENTS AND METHODS During the period November 2010 through October 2012, we prospectively studied all patients aged 18-75 years with acute onset of pain after shoul...