TOP TEN NOTES FROM THE SALT LAKE CITY S FACTOR PANEL

Effectiveness of traffic management in Salt Lake City, Utah.

PROBLEM The effectiveness of speed humps, 14 ft (4.3 m) wide by 3.5 in (8.9 cm) high, and tables, 22 ft (6.7 m) wide, on 12 streets in Salt Lake City, Utah was investigated. Mean and 85th percentile spot speeds, speed limit compliance, motor-vehicle crashes, and resident opinions were considered. METHOD Spot speeds were collected at 18 "between-hump" locations. Motor-vehicle crash data were o...

Panel: Applications of Machine Learning: Notes from the Panel Members

Maximizing appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis for surgical patients: an update from LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City.

Errors in antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgical patients remain one of the most frequent types of medication errors in hospitals. Failure to administer the first dose of antimicrobial prophylaxis within the 2-h window of time before incision is associated with 2- to 6-fold increases in rates of surgical site infection. Optimal use of antimicrobial prophylaxis includes proper case selection; us...

Grids: The top ten questions

The design and implementation of a national computing systems Grid has become a reachable goal for both computer and computational scientists. A distributed infrastructure capable of sophisticated computational functions can bring many benefits to scientific work, but poses many challenges to computer scientists, both technical and socio-political. Technical challenges include having basic soft...

The Supersymmetric Top-ten Lists

Ten reasons are given why supersymmetry is the leading candidate for physics beyond the Standard Model. Ultimately, the experimental discovery of supersymmetric particles at future colliders will determine whether supersymmetry is relevant for TeV scale physics. The grand hope of supersymmetry enthusiasts is to connect TeV scale supersymmetry with Planck scale physics. The ten most pressing the...