More than $1 billion needed annually to secure Africa’s protected areas with lions

US Physician Practices Spend More Than $15.4 Billion Annually To Report Quality Measures.

Each year US physician practices in four common specialties spend, on average, 785 hours per physician and more than $15.4 billion dealing with the reporting of quality measures. While much is to be gained from quality measurement, the current system is unnecessarily costly, and greater effort is needed to standardize measures and make them easier to report.

Domitilla Catacomb Walkthrough – Dealing with more than 1 Billion Points

In this paper we would like to present our application for editing and visualizing huge point clouds. We also show how we used our application to build a model of the Domitilla Catacomb in Rome, which is the largest catacomb in Rome. It is an Early-Christian necropolis spanning 15 km of subterranean galleries. The catacomb contains tombs and community burials, where some of the tombs are painte...

There are more than 1.3 million emergency department visits and charges of $1 billion annually due to nontraumatic dental conditions in the United States.

ARTICLE TITLE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Hospital-based emergency department visits involving dental conditions: profile and predictors of poor outcomes and resource utilization. Allareddy V, Rampa S, Lee MK, Allareddy V, Nalliah RP. J Am Dent Assoc 2014;145(4):331-7. REVIEWER Christopher Okunseri, BDS, MSc, DDPHRCSE, FFDRCSI PURPOSE/QUESTION: The primary aim was to examine hospital emerge...

Replication: Needed Now More Than Ever.

[Generalists are needed more than ever].

15 If today you want to keep up with basic and clin‐ ical research, you need to concentrate on a very small field and reach tremendous depths in this very field. And, actually, life is too short to also accumulate the knowledge necessary to do mean‐ ingful scientific work even on closely related top‐ ics. Hence, specialization is inevitable not only in research; it was a prerequisite for the de...