Improving outcomes with a little EFFORT

So much effort, so little progress?

In colorectal cancer (CRC), the treatment guidelines differ for Union International Contrè Cancer (UICC) stage II and III colon cancer patients. In patients with stage II colon cancer without risk factors such as T4 tumor, tumor perforation, emergency surgical procedure, or less than 12 removed lymph nodes, the low risk of recurrence is justifying no role of adjuvant chemotherapy. It would be c...

Actin Motility: Staying on Track Takes a Little More Effort

The pigment cells of amphibians and fish have provided excellent models for understanding how actin and microtubule motors move organelles along the complex trailway of filaments in the cytoplasm. Recent work provides more evidence that these motors are engaged in a continuous tug-of-war.

Very Fast YACC-Compatible Parsers (For Very Little Effort)

We have developed a yacc-compatible parser generator that creates parsers that are 2.5 to 6.5 times faster than those generated by yacc or bison. Our tool, mule, creates directly-executable, hard-coded parsers in ANSI C; yacc produces interpreted, table-driven parsers. Hard-coding LR parsers for speed is not a new idea. Two attributes distinguish mule from other parser generators that create ha...

Modeling of Cylinder Heat Transfer - Large Effort, Little Effect?

Improving Outcomes by Improving Practice

The Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group is a nonprofit technical assistance organization committed to improving outcomes by improving practice. Its work has spanned over twenty states and focuses on the development of front-line practice that is strengths, needs and family team based, individualized and dedicated to safety, stability, permanence and well-being. Its technical assistance incl...