Obesity: Its time has come1

Harmonization: Its Time Has Come.

The importance of standardization of laboratory test results has a long history traceable to the first proficiency testing results in 1947 that demonstrated large discrepancies among results from 59 hospital laboratories (1 ). The AACC published a series of monographs in 1953– 1972 titled Standard Methods of Clinical Chemistry that promoted a single measurement procedure (MP) for a measurand. T...

Run-Time Parallelization: Its Time Has Come

Current parallelizing compilers cannot identify a significant fraction of parallelizable loops because they have complex or statically insufficiently defined access patterns. This type of loop mostly occurs in irregular, dynamic applications which represent more than 50% of all applications [20]. Making parallel computing succeed has therefore become conditioned by the ability of compilers to a...

Positive psychiatry: its time has come.

Traditionally, psychiatry has been defined and practiced as a branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. Based on growing empirical evidence, we believe that this definition warrants expansion to include the concept of positive psychiatry. In the present article, we provide a critical overview of this emerging field and a select review of relevant scientific ...

Per2 has time on its side.

Intrathecal gadolinium: its time has come?

Association of deep white matter infarction with chronic communicating hydrocephalus: implications regarding the possible origin of normal pressure hydrocephalus. Idiopathic normal pressure hydroceph-alus may be a " two hit " disease: benign external hydrocephalus in infancy followed by deep white matter ischemia in late adulthood. T he article in this month's American Journal of Neuroradi-olog...