Why Astronomy is Useful and Should be Included in the School Curriculum

Why the Federal Government Should Be Involved in School Accountability

What Should be Included in a Commercial Word Data Base, and Why?

In the article I present definitions of the concepts quality and quality assurance, which are basis for proposing a general definition of quality of word bases. The quality of word bases is the specifications that customer and producer agree upon, and includes linguistic and other user relevant considerations. This is exemplified with the revision work of a term record format, and work with a w...

The Fundamental Reasons Why Laptop Computers should not be Used on Your Lap

As a tendency to use new technologies, gadgets such as laptop computers are becoming more popular among students, teachers, businessmen and office workers. Today laptops are a great tool for education and learning, work and personal multimedia. Millions of men, especially those in the reproductive age, are frequently using their laptop computers on the lap (thigh). Over the past several years, ...

Time to RE-AIM: Why Community Weight Loss Programs Should Be Included in Academic Obesity Research

Despite decades of efficacy-based research on weight loss interventions, the obesity epidemic in the United States persists, especially in underserved populations. We used the RE-AIM (Reach, Efficacy/Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) framework to describe the limitations of the current paradigm of efficacy-based research for weight loss interventions. We also used RE-AIM...

Why temperature-dependent fission barriers should not be included in statistical model calculations.

The reduced nuclear density in the surface layer of a nucleus gives rise to an increase in the level density parameter and also makes the fission barrier of the nucleus temperature dependent. The manner in which these effects can be consistently incorporated in the transition state formalism for statistical model calculations is discussed. The naive replacement of zero temperature with temperat...