High-Efficiency Can Be Achieved for Non-Uniformly Flexible Pitching Hydrofoils via Tailored Collective Interactions

Laboratory quality control for all. Can this be achieved?

Visiting hospitals in Africa and meeting with clinicians, pathologists, and laboratory directors, it rapidly becomes apparent that confidence in any diagnostic services is lacking. Clinicians cite many reasons. Some days complete blood cell counts and chemistries are available, while on other days, because there are no reagents available, physicians have no results to guide treatment for their ...

Higher Efficiency in Operations Can Be Achieved with More Focus on the Operator

Editorial: Non-pharmacological Interventions for Schizophrenia: How Much Can Be Achieved and How?

For the greatest part of the twentieth century, symptoms of schizophrenia such as delusional beliefs were considered to be " non-understandable, " and attempts to explain and treat these symptoms were predominantly influenced by biological conceptualizations (Mander and Kingdon, 2015). However, insights from behavioral, cognitive and social research as well as societal influences (Mueser et al....

Women's Expectations for Breast Cancer Prevention and Early Detection: High Expectations Can Be Achieved.

Inhis commentary titled “BreastCancerPrevention:CanWomen’s Expectations Be Met?” [1], Dr. Ponzone raises an important and timely question. Dr. Ponzone asks whether breast “cancer prevention”and“earlydetection”areattainablegoalsandwhether these phrases have the samemeaning to women at risk of breast canceras tohealthprofessionals.This is a critically important issue, because researchers andhealt...

Moving Towards Naturalistic Interactions With Invisible Interfaces: Can “Digital Simplicity” Be Achieved?

THREE CHALLENGES OF INVISIBLE INTERFACES Past user interface design leveraged real world metaphors and the naturalistic associations of these to create what was hoped to be more easy to use technologies (e.g., file folders, the desktop, the classic trash can, now subtly renamed the more environmentally friendly “recycle bin”). Pictorial representations (icons) were intended to facilitate unders...