PRE-FRAILTY IN COMMUNITY-DWELLERS: AN UNATTENDED CONDITION THAT WE HAVE MISSED

Now that we have a definition for physical frailty, what shape should frailty medicine take?

Have we missed the business-cycle relationship?

This paper investigates the link between real exchange rates and real interest differentials over the recent floating-rate period. In contrast to earlier econometric studies, we find evidence of a relationship, with the strongest link at trend and business-cycle frequencies. Because these prior studies focused on high-frequency components of the data, they found no statistical link between real...

Knowledge Transfer and Rumour – Have We Missed Something?

Knowledge Management places informal social networks in a positive light. Established ties between people enable communication and knowledge transfer to take place. Key Knowledge Management concepts such as Communities of Practice and Social Network Analysis reinforce further the value placed in the social networks. Yet disciplines such as psychology and sociology have been examining rumour and...

Gorillas we have missed: sustained inattentional deafness for dynamic events.

It is now well-known that the absence of attention can leave us 'blind' to visual stimuli that are very obvious under normal viewing conditions (e.g. a person dressed as a gorilla; Simons & Chabris, 1999). However, the question of whether hearing can ever be susceptible to such effects remains open. Here, we present evidence that the absence of attention can leave people 'deaf' to the presence ...

How many good antidepressant medications have we missed?

The current methodology used to assess the clinical efficacy of antidepressant candidate drugs has been plagued in recent years by the failure of over 50% of controlled trials to separate placebo from established antidepressants and experimental medications. In contrast, a “negative” trial is one in which the active comparator, but not the antidepressant candidate, is significantly better than ...