Where What Is Not Stated or Required May Be the Most Illuminating

Where what is not stated or required may be the most illuminating.

In this issue of CJASN, Khatri and colleagues report that increasing adherence to a Mediterranean diet is directly associated with a significantly lower risk of developing incident CKD (defined as eGFR,60 ml/min per 1.73 m2) after a mean 6.9 years of follow-up in 900 ethnically diverse participants of theNorthernManhattan Study (NOMAS) (1). Moreover, each additional 1-point increase representin...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

What Must, Ought, Is Worth and May Not Be Done

The Praxis model of reasons for action takes choice among alternative courses of action to be a matter of what must, ought, is worth and may not be done. It envisages practical decision making systems being given their reasons for action as requirements, duties, rules of valuation, proscriptions and contingent circumstances in a knowledge base. The model’s principles of selection and automated ...

What Must (Not) Be Available Where?

Arranging the distribution of data, objects or components is a critical task that can ultimately affect the performance, integrity and reliability of distributed system. This paper suggests to write down what must (not) be available where in order to reveal conflicting distribution requirements and to detect problems early on. Distribution requirements are expressed via a new notion of constrai...

is evaluation of hepatitis a immunity required or not?