We Dare You

I dare you!

A 23-year-old man presented to the emergency department with thigh and flank pain. His medical history was unremarkable. Serum test results included the following: aspartate aminotransferase, 4007 U/L (reference interval, 11–47 U/L); alanine aminotransferase, 715 U/L (reference interval, 7–53 U/L); alkaline phosphatase, 67 U/L (reference interval, 38–126 U/L); lactate dehydrogenase, 6150 U/L (r...

We hear you

95.7% underwent only one or two rounds of external review. No papers endured more than three external review cycles. Our belief is that if we invest additional editorial effort at the point of decision, we can avoid protracted cycles of review and re-review. For example, we neither expect nor require all referees to agree on the merits or deficiencies of every manuscript. When referees disagree...

We Miss You, Allen

You know what we need?

I've listened to many of you moan about the current flat NIH budgets, lack of funding, and the frustration of being a scientist in the current depressed economy. Instead of complaining to only ourselves in the scientific community, we need to make ourselves heard by politicians and the public at large. We need a pundit.

UvA - DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) If we knew ability , how would we tax individuals ?

The suggestion to tax people on earnings capacity instead of earnings has been around for a long time and is attractive in terms of economic efficiency. In this paper we reflect on the feasibility of such a system and give an exploratory empirical implementation. We apply the Leyden Welfare Function of Income, a survey based measure of an individual’s welfare associated with income, to derive i...