1 Department of Pathology (Division of Parasitology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, 2 Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Disease), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, 3 Global Health Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, 4 Jacobi Medical Cen...

Just after the release of the 2000 clinical practice guidelines “Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence,” I remember reading a stirring editorial written by Sam Giordano. The title was “What’s That Sound?” In the editorial, Giordano urged respiratory therapists (RTs) to become conversant with the guidelines and to “seize this incredible opportunity to add value” to the services provided by RTs. I ...

The Swedish 18th-century naturalist Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus is habitually credited with laying the foundations of modern taxonomy through the invention of binominal nomenclature. However, another innovation of Linnaeus' has largely gone unnoticed. He seems to have been one of the first botanists to leave his herbarium unbound, keeping the sheets of dried plants separate and stacking them in a p...

We document novel shifts in the lead-lag properties of the US business cycle since the mid-1980s that have gone unnoticed in contemporary research. Specifically, (i) the well-known inverted-leading-indicator-property of real interest rates has completely vanished; (ii) labour productivity switched from leading positively to lagging negatively over the cycle; (iii) Labour input measures shifted ...

Health is a complex interaction requiring complex science techniques, say Ana Fernandez and colleagues from the University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle, Australia. They argue that randomised controlled trials (RCTs) can be useful in the discovery phase, but inadequate in the field of implementation. Implementing change in healthcare needs to take into account not only the evidence,...

75 There has been a dramatic increase in recent years in the number of people diagnosed with mental disorder. For example, in USA the NIMH estimates that, in any given year, 25% of the population has a diagnosable mental disorder. A prospective study found that, by age 32yrs, 50% of the general population had qualified for an anxiety disorder, 40% for depression and 30% for alcohol abuse or dep...

Circumnuclear tori are a central ingredient in the unification of the AGN phenomenon, but the conditions in the tori, the jet collimation, and the accretion mechanisms are still poorly constrained. Magnetic fields are involved in jet collimation and probably in feeding material into the nucleus, but those that are derived using equipartition are uncertain since equipartition conditions are not ...

Contemporary XPath query engines evaluate queries in time exponential in the sizes of input queries, a fact that has gone unnoticed for a long time. Recently, the first mainmemory evaluation algorithm for XPath 1.0 with polynomial time combined complexity, i.e., which runs in polynomial time both with respect to the size of the data and the queries, has been published (cf. [11]). In this paper,...