Order out of Chaos: Shifting Paradigm of Convective Turbulence

Detrusor contractility--order out of chaos.

OBJECTIVE This paper comprises a critical assessment of the many competing ways of assessing detrusor contractility in the urodynamic clinic. It is based on measurements made in a group of elderly women, and the conclusions apply, strictly speaking, only to that population. Detrusor contractility has two aspects, which appear to be independent of each other: the strength of the detrusor contrac...

Psychological distress and medication adherence: creating order out of chaos?

Butterfly and renal cell cancer: out of chaos comes order.

TO THE EDITOR: You are no doubt familiar with the butterfly effect paradigm to describe the chaos theory. The proverbial butterfly flaps its wings on a remote Caribbean island and causes a hurricane in Europe a few weeks later. A small change in one place can cause widely diverging outcomes in another. In patients with cancer the butterfly effect can have devastating effects. Over our many year...

Power Quality Measurements: Bringing Order out of Chaos

The quality of the power supplied t o sensitive electronic equipment is a n important issue. Quantifytng this quality, however, is difficult under the present s ta te o f nonexistent or uncoordinated standards concerning two related questions: ( I ) what levels of power quali ty a r c r equ i red for what types of loads, and (2) what measurement techniques a r e required to determine reliably t...

Influenza immunization data: can we make order out of chaos?

Jennifer A. Pereira, Christine L. Heidebrecht, Susan Quach, Sherman D. Quan, Michael Finkelstein, Julie A. Bettinger, Shelley L. Deeks, Maryse Guay, David L. Buckeridge, Larry Chambers, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Beate Sander, Donna Kalailieff, Stephanie Brien and Jeffrey C. Kwong, for the Public Health Agency of Canada/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Influenza Research Network (PCIRN) Vaccin...