Inability to Predict Relapse in Acute Asthma

Inability to predict relapse in acute asthma.

How to prevent relapse after acute exacerbation of asthma?

Insenstivity to close contacts and inability to predict protein foldability.

Mittal and coworkers recently (1) analyzed the spatial organization of folded proteins backbone and advocated an alternative hypothesis on protein folding stating that specific interactions among amino acids do not drive protein folding. The authors analyzed spatial distributions of Cα atoms for all amino acid pairs in about four thousands proteins available in PDB database and they found that ...

Inability of cephalothin testing to predict cefprozil susceptibility.

The 30-micrograms cefprozil disk and the cephalosporin class (30-micrograms cephalothin) disk were compared for their abilities to predict cefprozil susceptibility by agar disk diffusion testing. High error (5.02% major and 14.11% minor) rates were encountered with the cephalothin disk and were most frequently observed for Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis. The cefprozil disks resulted...

Inability of Lyapunov exponents to predict epileptic seizures.

It has been claimed that Lyapunov exponents computed from electroencephalogram or electrocorticogram (ECoG) time series are useful for early prediction of epileptic seizures. We show, by utilizing a paradigmatic chaotic system, that there are two major obstacles that can fundamentally hinder the predictive power of Lyapunov exponents computed from time series: finite-time statistical fluctuatio...