What is the physics behind the Larson mass–size relation?

What is the physics behind the 3 He – 4 He anomaly ?

What is the Clinical Skills Learning Center?

With shorter periods of hospitalazation, fewer patient beds and more health care facilities in the society, patients are now more acutely ill and highly dependent, causing less opportunities for medical students to practice and learn basic clinical skills. On the other hand, enhanced patient rights and other learnig limitations require that professional education provide not only knowledge and ...

What is behind the Priority Heuristic ?

Comments on the article by E. Brandstätter, G. Gigerenzer, and R. Hertwig. The authors discuss the priority heuristic, a recent model for decisions under risk. They reanalyze the experimental validity of this approach and discuss how these results compare with cumulative prospect theory, the currently most established model in behavioral economics. They also discuss how general models for decis...

What Is Behind the Tipping Point Mechanism?

Group purchasing sites have recently gained tremendous popularity on the Internet. Besides the collective buying model, the leading website, Groupon.com, also introduces a tipping point mechanism to the U.S. e-market. The current study creates a theoretical model that integrates the theory of mind with models from e-commerce research to further study the buyer’s decision making influenced by a ...

What is the Real Cause of Glaucoma?

Introduction: The term glaucoma refers to a group of diseases that have a characteristic optic neuropathy with associated visual field loss in common. Intraocular pressure has been considered to be the only causal factor for glaucoma and the only factor that can be manipulated to alter the course of the disease. But considering high intraocular pressure as the only factor responsible for glauco...