It is all in the numbers

The Numbers Tell It All: Students Don't Like Numbers!

Undergraduate Students' interest in taking quantitative vs. non quantitative courses has received limited attention even though it has important consequences for higher education. Previous studies have collected course interest ratings at the end of the courses as part of student evaluation of teaching (SET) ratings, which may confound prior interest in taking these courses with students' actua...

The IT Revolution: Is It Evident in the Productivity Numbers?

T here is little doubt that we are witnessing a technological revolution. The question is, does this technological revolution have revolutionary economic consequences? In particular, is economic productivity growing at a much faster rate today, and if so, will it continue to do so in the future? In this article, we review recent literature on the measurement of productivity growth in the United...

Autism: is it all in the head?

A hologram is a 3 dimensional photographic image. But it is much more. If you take a glass plate that stores any holographic image and break it into a thousand pieces, each fragment when illuminated with a laser will recreate the entire image. Autism is a hologram for chronic disease. In it is refl ected all the causes and cures for chronic disease. Autism is an extreme manifestation of disrupt...

Is it "all in the genes"?

Proteinuria: is it all in the foot?

Despite significant advances in our understanding of the molecular structure and composition of the glomerular filtration barrier, the mechanisms underlying the presence of excess protein in the urine (proteinuria) in acquired human kidney diseases remain elusive. In a study appearing in this issue of the JCI, Sever and associates use a combination of biochemical, genetic, and in vivo approache...