Runaway costs cause sharp reduction

High-risk specialties threatened by runaway legal costs.

Improving Active Learning with Sharp Data Reduction

Statistical analysis and pattern recognition have become a daunting endeavour in face of the enormous amount of information in datasets that have continually been made available. In view of the infeasibility of complete manual annotation, one seeks active learning methods for data organization, selection and prioritization that could help the user to label the samples. These methods, however, c...

Thermal Runaway: Identifying the Cause of Rupture of Li‐Ion Batteries during Thermal Runaway (Adv. Sci. 1/2018)

At a critical temperature, active materials within Li-ion batteries break down, generating heat and gas. Thermal runaway occurs when this process accelerates after the temperature of the cell begins to rise, leading to hazardous failure mechanisms such as the cell bursting. In article number 1700369, Paul R. Shearing and co-workers use high-speed X-ray imaging to capture and characterize such h...

The Runaway Weed: Costs and Failures of Phragmites australis Management in the USA

While public funding of invasive species management has increased substantially in the past decade, there have been few cross-institutional assessments of management programs. We assessed management of Phragmites australis, a problematic invader of coastal habitats, through a crossinstitutional economic survey of 285 land managers from US public and private conservation organizations. We found ...

Primary spine care services: responding to runaway costs and disappointing outcomes in spine care.

Efforts are underway to reform our health care system to improve efficiency, outcomes, patient satisfaction and costs. In no field is this more critical than that of spine- related disorders, where escalating costs combined with decreasing clinical benefits for patients has reached a breaking point. Traditionally, practitioners have grouped together based on their specialty (orthopedics, otolar...