Living alone and mortality: more complicated than it seems

"Elevator Music": More Than It Seems

"The musically aware hostess no longer allows the butler, or her husband, to sling records on to the turntable in a haphazard way. She no longer risks the dangers of the soup being spilled by Haydn's 'Surprise' Symphony, or Mrs. Alias-Jones choking over the fish because an ill-timed bit of jazz trumpet has frightened her. She now supplies a ready-made background of elegant and suitable music to...

More than technology alone.

Traditionally, developments in the labon-a-chip community have been technology-pushed, mainly guided by analytical chemists, micro-machinists and material scientists, rather than demand-pulled. Applications such as LabChip from Caliper (Fig. 1) and i-STAT from Abbott Point of Care (Fig. 2) can now be found on the market, solving practical problems for users. However, the field is still lacking ...

Stereotype Threat Spillover: Why Stereotype Threat Is More Useful for Organizations Than It Seems

Reply to: "Dendritic cell subset composition in the human liver is more complex than it seems".

med/20479116. [4] Sumitran-Holgersson S, Ge X, Karrar A, Xu B, Nava S, Broome U, et al. A novel mechanism of liver allograft rejection facilitated by antibodies to liver sinusoidal endothelial cells. Hepatology 2004;40:1211–1221. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15486937. [5] Haniffa M, Shin A, Bigley V, McGovern N, Teo P, See P, et al. Human tissues contain CD141hi cross-pres...

Using Critiquing for Improving Medical Protocols: Harder than It Seems

Medical protocols are widely recognised to provide clinicians with high-quality and up-to-date recommendations. A critical condition for this is of course that the protocols themselves are of high quality. In this paper we investigate the use of critiquing for improving the quality of medical protocols. We constructed a detailed formal model of the jaundice protocol of the American Association ...