What is more important? Measuring trends in child undernutrition correctly or interpreting them adequately?

Fat or Fit: What Is More Important?

The prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide, and obesity represents one of the major health hazards (1). Obesity was shown to be linked to an increased mortality and morbidity. However, obesity is often associated with modifications of physical activity level. Physical activity level itself affects the health status of the individual and thus may be a confounding variable in the obesity-m...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Interpreting the probe-surface interaction of surface measuring instruments, or what is a surface?

When using dimensional measuring instruments it is assumed that there is a property of the object, which we call surface, that is present before during and after the measurement, i.e. the surface is a fundamental property of an object that can, by appropriate means, be used to measure geometry. This paper will attempt to show that the fundamental property ‘surface’ does not exist in any simple ...

Child undernutrition in affluent societies: what are we talking about?

In this paper we set out to explore the prevalence of child undernutrition found in community studies in affluent societies, but a preliminary literature review revealed that, in the absence of a gold standard method of diagnosis, the prevalence largely depends on the measure, threshold and the growth reference used, as well as age. We thus go on to explore describe the common clinical 'syndrom...

What Is More Important to Effective Governance: Relationships, Trust, and Leadership, or Structures and Formal Processes?