Incentive to Scrutinize

Feds to scrutinize health disparities.

Federal Agencies scrutinize lung surgery.

Background: Diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) remains problematic despite many new advanced diagnostic methods. A reliable and rapid diagnostic test, which could be performed in any standard pathology laboratory, would help to obtain definitive early diagnoses of TB. In the present study we describe a prospective evaluation for demonstrating Antigen (Ag) 85 complex in the sera from TB patients. Me...

Quality Management in Scientific Publishing – the Importance to Critically Scrutinize Scientific Work

On September 10, 2013, an article with the title ‘Unbalanced Baseline in School-Based Interventions to Prevent Obesity: Adjustment Can Lead to Bias?’ by the authors R. Sichieri and D. B. Cunha was submitted to our journal OBESITY FACTS . The reviewers of the original submission recommended that major revision was required before the publication could be accepted, specifically a stronger defense...

Moving Least Squares Spectra Scrutinize Chronomics in and around Us.

As an extension of the chronobiological serial section, gliding spectra illustrate the changing time structure (chronome) of physiological, physical and/or other variables in a given frequency range. For this purpose, least squares spectra are computed over a specified interval (much shorter than the observation span) that is progressively displaced by a given increment throughout the entire re...

Incentive Human-to-Human Chat Support Protocol

In this study, we introduce a new peer-to-peer (P2P) approach to instant messaging systems based on a fully decentralized network, and where each human owning a peer can control the traffic supported by her system. The control may be based on criteria such as: (a) her desire to help the endpoints of the communication, e.g., based on friendship, (b) her desire to help a cause, e.g., based on the...