Main Components of Liquid Biopsy are Greater 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...

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 ...

Statistical Learning Control of Uncertain Systems: It Is Better than It Seems

Recently, probabilistic methods and statistical learning theory have been shown to provide approximate solutions to \diÆcult" control problems. Unfortunately, the number of samples required in order to guarantee stringent performance levels may be prohibitively large. This paper introduces bootstrap learning methods and the concept of stopping times to drastically reduce the bound on the number...

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

Renal rupture – Not what it seems

A 20-year-old male judo teacher presented with acute left flank pain and gross hematuria. At the time of this presentation, the patient was hemodynamically stable. He had no clear history of blunt abdominal trauma, or preexisting conditions or previous surgery. Multiphase abdominal computed tomography confirmed an active extravasation from a segmental renal artery during the arterial phase (Fig...