why you should teach your diabetic patients to chart

Why you should ask your patients about their fishing hobbies.

Patients who use immunosuppressive agents, in particular medication that blocks tumour necrosis factor-a, are at risk for mycobacterial infections. Besides the typical Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, a lso a typical mycobacterial disease may occur. Here we demonstrate two patients with such atypical mycobacterial infection due to swimming and fishing water contact. We propose that patient...

Why You Should Charge Your Friends for Borrowing Your Stuff

We consider goods that can be shared with k-hop neighbors (i.e., the set of nodes within k hops from an owner) on a social network. We examine incentives to buy such a good by devising game-theoretic models where each node decides whether to buy the good or free ride. First, we find that social inefficiency, specifically excessive purchase of the good, occurs in Nash equilibria. Second, the soc...

Do you Recommend an Interdisciplinary Field to Your Graduate Student?

Why you should Empirically Evaluate your AI Tool - From SPOSH to yaPOSH

The autonomous agents community has been developing specific agent-oriented programming languages for more than two decades. Some of the languages have been considered by academia as possible tools for developing artificial intelligence (AI) for non-player characters in computer games. However, as most of the research related to the development of new AI languages within the agent community doe...

Why residents should teach: a literature review.

Resident doctors contribute significantly to the quality of undergraduate medical training and it is assumed that by participating in the process, they also improve their own professional competency. We decided to investigate whether there is evidence to support this assumption. Our hypothesis, the physician-as-teacher rule, stated that "A skilled teacher has an increased likelihood of becoming...

Top Ten Reasons to Not Share Your Code (and why you should anyway)

I am an advocate of sharing the computer code used to produce tables or figures appearing in mathematical and scientific publications, particularly when the results produced by the code are an integral part of the research being presented. I’m not alone, and in fact the number of people thinking this way seems to be rapidly increasing, see for example [1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10]. But there is still ...