Stick testing.

Cocktail stick injuries--the dangers of half a stick.

Direct-to-consumer disease screening with finger-stick testing: online patient safety risks.

The direct-to-consumer (DTC) medical industry (i.e., medical testing and treatment outside of physician oversight) is growing rapidly as the Internet becomes more accessible globally. As several studies have highlighted, this industry offers unproven medical testing, provides testing for unapproved indications, and uses suspect advertising claims (1–5 ). Furthermore, given the prevalence of ill...

Too Much Stick? Not Enough Carrot? Testing the Presumption of Non-Compliance

This paper reports the findings of an evaluation study of the 2006-2007 Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Residential HVAC Retrofit program. The program’s savings calculations assumed that 96 percent of non-participant retrofits in their territory are not complying with California’s ambitious 2005 energy code to some degree. The evaluation study included comprehensive performance tes...

Preventing needle-stick injury.

Stabilizing stick-slip friction.

Even the most regular stick-slip frictional sliding is always stochastic, with irregularity in both the intervals between slip events and the sizes of the associated stress drops. Applying small-amplitude oscillations to the shear force, we show, experimentally and theoretically, that the stick-slip periods synchronize. We further show that this phase locking is related to the inhibition of slo...