Popular diets, body weight and health: What is scientifically documented?

Glycemic index and glycemic load of popular weight-loss diets.

CONTEXT Carbohydrate-restricted diets have been popular in recent years. The theoretical glycemic impact of these diets, compared with other popular weight-loss diets, has not been reported. OBJECTIVE To assess the glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) of 2 popular, carbohydrate-restricted diets (South Beach and Sugar Busters!) and compare them with a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet (Orn...

health communication what it is and what is not

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

What Is Scientifically - Based Research on Progress Monitoring ?

When teachers use systematic progress monitoring to track their students progress in reading, mathematics, or spelling, they are better able to identify students in need of additional or different forms of instruction, they design stronger instructional programs, and their students achieve better. This document first describes progress monitoring procedures for which experimental evidence demon...

What is Popular Amongst Your Friends?

www.icws.uiuc.edu Abstract: Collaborative filters are commonly used in e-commerce to recommend relevant content based on available user-item ratings, and recently, several researchers have investigated their performance limits for different data models. One popular approach is to view this as an user-item rating matrix completion problem, and the low-rank matrix model has received particular at...