Shifting focus

Shifting the Focus From What to Why

After 4 decades of research on infant behavior and development, the time has come to shift our focus from What infants do to Why they do it when they do-to move beyond the single-minded search for mechanism and to consider the larger question of funcrion. Infants ate not merely incomplete adults who simply get better with age, but they are different organisms altogether, perfectly adapted at ev...

Shifting the Focus in Mobile Maps

Mobile maps show the current position of a map reader in their center. We will question this convention, which is in our opinion a relict from paper maps. We observe that, in contrast to paper maps, mobile maps have a narrower purpose and mobile devices have a different affordance and handling. This observation encourages thinking of a map design that allows an embodied experience of map readin...

Surgical Outcomes: Shifting the Focus From Measurement to Improvement.

Shifting the focus in fracture prevention from osteoporosis to falls.

124 BMJ | 19 January 2008 | VoluMe 336 Fractures are a rapidly growing problem among older people. Hip fractures alone cost over $20bn (£10bn; €13bn) in the United States in 1997.1 Any intervention that may reduce the risk of fracture at either the individual or population level therefore warrants critical appraisal. The mainstay of current strategies to prevent fractures is to screen for osteo...

Shifting Focus in the Therapeutics of Immunobullous Disease

Therapeutics of autoimmune bullous disease has seen a major shift of focus from more global immunosuppression to targeted immunotherapy. Anti CD 20 monoclonal antibody Rituximab revolutionized the therapeutics of autoimmune bullous disease particularly pemphigus. Though it is still being practiced off-label, evidences in the form of RCT and meta analysis are now available. Other novel anti CD 2...