How Is Your Week Going So Far?

Increased intelligence is a myth (so far)

On one hand, intelligence testing is one of the great successes of psychology (Hunt, 2011). Intelligence test scores predict many real world phenomena and have many well-validated practical uses (Gottfredson, 1997; Deary et al., 2010). Intelligence test scores also correlate to structural and functional brain parameters assessed with neuroimaging (Haier et al., 1988; Jung and Haier, 2007; Deary...

Mammography screening: how far is too far?

INTRODUCTION This study answers the question: 'How far must a Canadian woman travel before the risk of a motor vehicle accident (MVA) outweighs the benefits of mammography screening?'. METHODS Numbers needed to screen and false positive rates were extracted from information in the breast screening guidelines from the Canadian Task Force on screening for breast cancer. Motor vehicle accidents ...

robotic anesthesia: how is it going to change our practice?

Stem Cells So far! Stem Cell Therapy Facts and Principles

Stem cells are cells with the ability to divide for indefinite periods and to give rise to specialized cells.  Stem cell therapy has now been emerged as an extraordinary promise to treat a wide range of diseases and conditions.  However, except blood stem cell transfer by bone marrow transplant which has been used as an standard practice for more than 50 years, nearly all of therapeutic potenti...

Going Far, Logically

There are numerous applications where we need to ensure that multiple moving objects are sufficiently far apart. Furthermore, in many moving object domains, there is positional indeterminacy — we are not 100% sure exactly when a given moving object will be at a given location. [Yaman et al., 2004] provided a logic of motion but did not provide algorithms to ensure that moving objects are kept s...