Postgraduate options: Academia misses the mark

Hwang case review committee misses the mark

© The Rockefeller University Press $15.00 The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 176, No. 2, January 15, 2007 131–132 http://www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.200612154 JCB 131 establish common standards for ensuring data integrity. Even more important than developing standards, however, is enforcing them. We at the JCB developed standards for the integrity of digital image data four Hwang case review...

The new glucose standard POCT12-A3 misses the mark.

POCT12-A3 is a Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute standard for hospitals about hospital glucose meter procedures and performance standards. I have reviewed this standard based on the attributes of an ideal performance standard. POCT12-A3 has tighter limits than its predecessor for 95% of results, the limits widen for 98% of results, and there are no limits for 2% of results. It is hard to ...

Where population health misses the mark: breaking the 80/20 rule.

Conventional population management theory, predicated on prevention and keeping the healthy majority healthy, fails to address the root cause of the unsustainable health care spending trajectory in the United States. The national health care agenda has been heavily influenced by the assumptions that disease prevention and the general promotion of "population health" will be sufficient to reduce...

More than one arrow in the quiver: Why "100% renewables" misses the mark.

Jacobson et al. (1) aim to demonstrate that an allrenewable energy system is technically feasible. Not only are the study’s conclusions based on strong assumptions and key methodological oversights, but its framing also omits the essential notion of trade-offs. A far more relevant question is how renewable energy technologies relate to the broader set of options for meeting long-term societal g...

Noakes misses the point.