Deadly Sins of Antibiotic Abuse in China.

Seven deadly sins of environmental epidemiology and the virtues of precaution.

The potentials for error in planning, conducting, reporting, and utilizing epidemiologic results can be considered in terms of the traditional 7 deadly sins. To counter these sins, epidemiologic virtues should be inspired by the precautionary principle. The remedies emphasize acknowledgment and exploration of the impact of uncertainties, weight-of-the-evidence assessments that consider what cou...

Acedia: Its Evolution from Deadly Sin to Psychiatric Syndrome.

lohannes Cassianus, more commonly known as John Cassian, wrote his treatise De Institutis Coenobiorumci de OctoPrincipalium Vitiorum Remediis Libri XII around the beginning of the fifth century A.D. This work is important because it introduced certain Eastern ideas into Western thought. Some of these ideas are of considerable psychiatric interest. Cassian first studied with St. Jerome in the Ea...

Eight Deadly Sins of GRL

Addressing Antibiotic Abuse in China: An Experimental Audit Study.

China has high rates of antibiotic abuse and antibiotic resistance but the causes are still a matter for debate. Strong physician financial incentives to prescribe are likely to be an important cause. However, patient demand (or physician beliefs about patient demand) is often cited and may also play a role. We use an audit study to examine the effect of removing financial incentives, and to tr...

Computing in Architectural Design: A Reflective Perspective From Deadly Sins and Arguable Virtues to a New Generation of CAAD

This paper introduces a reflective perspective on the role of computing in architectural design over the generations of computer aided architectural designs. Paradigms of the design process and computational models of designing are discussed. The evolution of computer aided architectural design is investigated. Both deadly sins and arguable virtues of computing in architecture and their implica...