How Fares Basic Science?

How basic is basic science?

Some other possible conclusions come easily to mind. Perhaps, if we’re really concerned about students’ learning evidence-based medicine, then we should teach it more or better. On the other hand I am one of many who have joined the anti-EBM movement (Norman 1999). In my view, the fundamental irony remains that, even though it made the BMJ’s ‘‘Top 15 Medical Innovations of all Time’’ list in 20...

The Determinants of Direct Air Fares to Cleveland: How Competitive?

by Paul W. Bauer and Thomas J. Zlatoper Paul W. Bauer is an economist at the Federal Bank of Cleveland. Thomas J. Zlatoper is a professor at John Carroll University and a research associate at the Center for Regional Economic Issues at Case Western University. The authors would like to thank John Swinton and Paula J. Loboda for their expert research assistance, and thank Randall W. Eberts for h...

How a Generative Encoding Fares as Problem-Regularity Decreases

It has been shown that generative representations, which allow the reuse of code, perform well on problems with high regularity (i.e. where a phenotypic motif must be repeated many times). To date, however, generative representations have not been tested on irregular problems. It is unknown how they will fare on problems with intermediate and low amounts of regularity. This paper compares a gen...

Basic Facts for Basic Science

Overall, this outstanding text should soon become recognized as the definitive reference for the diagnosis and management of ocular trauma. The tall, narrow shape of Basic Facts for Basic Science suggests that perhaps the author intended that it be put into the pocket of one's lab coat; perhaps not, but this book is certainly appropriate for the shelf of any laboratory and for the office of any...

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