Tempest in a p-pot?

A Scientific Tempest

New superbug or tempest in a teapot?

In mid-February this year, New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden called a press conference to announce that a case of rapidly progressing, multidrugresistant HIV/AIDS had been identified. Although drug resistance is common, and rapid progression to AIDS is rare but not unheard of, it is the combination of both factors in one patient that raised the fear among public health officials ...

Tap water tempest

You know the news isn’t going to be good when the report of a new study cites sources in City Hall rather than the scientific literature. That’s exactly how the story broke in February, reporting a link between tap water and miscarriages in a California study. On February 10, the Los Angeles Times warned its readers in a front page report that “drinking five or more glasses of cold tap water pe...

Surveillance Bias in Child Maltreatment: A Tempest in a Teapot

Background: Children are believed to be more likely to be reported for maltreatment while they are working with mental health or social service professionals. This "surveillance bias" has been claimed to inflate reporting by fifty percent or more, and has been used to explain why interventions such as home visiting fail to reduce official maltreatment reporting rates. Methods: We use national c...

Tempest: A Substrate for Portable Parallel Programs

This paper describes Tempest, a collection of mechanisms for communication and synchronization in parallel programs. With these mechanisms, authors of compilers, libraries, and application programs can exploit—across a wide range of hardware platforms—the best of shared memory, message passing, and hybrid combinations of the two. Because Tempest provides mechanisms, not policies, programmers ca...