Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights

Do you really know how tall you are?

Whereas it is customary for patients seen in ambulatory care settings to have their weights measured, heights are usually taken from the patient’s recollection. To see if this practice may result in incorrect estimates of body mass index for people with diabetes, 100 consecutive adult outpatients newly referred for consultation regarding diabetes (32 patients with type 1 diabetes and 68 patient...

Of Politicians and Technocrats, and Why Global Health Scholars Are Inevitably a Bit of Both: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Why Are You Still Using Shortest Path?

I. INTRODUCTION Live streaming is delay sensitive and their end-to-end allowable delay is an important factor. Allowable delay means the elapsed time in which data should arrive at an end receivers before being played back. Data arriving at end receivers later than the allowable delay are useless and cannot be played back. Therefore, not only must data losses be reduced but also a specific end-...

Honestly , why are you driving a BMW ?

This paper proposes that people derive utility not only from goods or their attributes as in standard models, but also from their self-image as influenced by their own perception of their preferences. In a representative survey, most respondents considered their own concern for status when purchasing a car to be minor in comparison with the status concerns of others. Similarly, most individuals...

You are so smart! Why didn't you study medicine?

You are so smart! Why didn’t you study medicine? Each nurse that is asked this question cringes. It is meant as a complement, but it is really an insult. This statement implies that although you are smart, you made a bad choice. The person asking really pities you for wasting your brain. In the public eye, being a nurse requires dedication and selfl essness, not intellect(1). This is true in th...