What universities can learn from one of science’s biggest frauds

What Can Residential Research-­‐based Universities Learn …? What Can Residential, Research-based Universities Learn about Their Core Com- Petencies from Moocs (massive Open Online Course)?

Over the past five years Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have ignited the imagination of venture capitalists, politicians, non-traditional students and the public more than most other e-learning trends for the past decades. There have been not only hopes to „bring top-notch courses to the world’s poorest citizens and reshaping the way all students learn” but even promises to provide world c...

What Can We Learn from 21 Years of School Poisonings in New Zealand?

Background: Childhood poisoning is a significant international health concern. Very little is known about trends in exposures within schools and preschools. The objectives of this study were to investigate the data recorded by the New Zealand National Poisons Centre (NPC) on these types of exposures over a 21 year period (1989 to 2009) and to determine trends and propose strategies to reduce th...

What you can learn from one gene: GLI3.

The study of patients with rare multiple congenital anomaly syndromes can provide illuminating insights into normal development and the pathogenesis of congenital anomalies. The GLI3 gene is a particularly good example as it illuminates the phenomena of pleiotropy, phenocopies, syndrome families, and evolutionary conservation of pathogenesis, and raises questions about how diagnoses are concept...

Handoffs: what ORs can learn from formula one race crews.

What can one learn from two-state single-molecule trajectories?

A time trajectory of an observable that fluctuates between two values (say, on and off), stemming from some unknown multisubstate kinetic scheme, is the output of many single-molecule experiments. Here we show that when all successive waiting times along the trajectory are uncorrelated the on and the off waiting time probability density functions contain all the information. By relating the lac...