Love lies bleeding--those who are left behind salute you

Ave, CESAR, morituri te salutant! (Hail, CESAR, those who are about to die salute you!)

Citation Peek GJ, Mugford M, Tiruvoipati R, Wilson A, Allen E, Thalanany MM, Hibbert CL, Truesdale A, Clemens F, Cooper N, Firmin RK, Elbourne D: Effi cacy and economic assessment of conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR): a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2009, 374:1351-1363. [1]. Background Sever...

Truth and investment: lies are told to those who care.

Participants discussed paintings they liked and disliked with artists who were or were not personally invested in them. Participants were urged to be honest or polite or were given no special instructions. There were no conditions under which the artists received totally honest feedback about the paintings they cared about. As predicted by the defensibility postulate, participants stonewalled, ...

“those Who Love, Vaccinate”: Parental Perceptions of Hpv Vaccination

Introduction: In March 2014, Brazil began its national HPV immunization campaign targeting girls ages 9-13. Objective: Describe determinants of parental decisions to vaccinate their daughters against HPV. Methods: In this qualitative study, thirty semi-structured interviews were conducted at five health posts in São Paulo, Brazil. Interview questions explored parental opinions of disease preven...

Who are you?

Who Are You?

M any security mechanisms, including authorization, depend on the proper handling of identity, but it’s hard to get right. To understand why, we must examine, fundamentally, what identity is. One traditional answer is that an identity is a name. That’s unsatisfactory, for several reasons. First, a name points to an object—an entity—but is not itself that object. Second, authentication is needed...