“I sometimes point out the parallel with the situation 100 or so years ago when we figured out that hygiene could actually save rather a lot of lives of infants. You know, we could have said to ourselves, ‘Oh dear, there will be terrible overpopulation if we save all these lives with everybody having 10 kids. Let’s not do it. Let’s carry on letting these infants die.’ But we didn’t do that . . ...

Assessment of sperm has over the years by many been regarded as something secondary to assessment of ova, oocytes and embryos. Often the most inexperienced of the laboratory staff have been asked to evaluate the semen sample. It is our belief that the outcome of subfertility treatment could be improved considerably, if semen and sperm assessment would be taken more seriously. This may not be as...

The design of complex multi-agent systems is increasingly having to confront the possibility that agents may not behave as they are supposed to. In addition to analysing the properties that hold if protocols are followed correctly, it is also necessary to predict, test, and verify the properties that would hold if these protocols were to be violated. We illustrate how the formal machinery of de...

Suppose that you are sitting at the writing table. In front of you there are books, text-books, pens, pencils, pieces of paper with some short notes, and a lot of other things. You need to do something, you have to organize your working place, and for this you will start moving the things around the table. There are no restrictions on moving all these things and there are no regulations on how ...

This poem is commentary on our dominant paradigm of epidemiological knowledge production racial health inequities. The core animating concern here structural racism—not just as a thing ‘out there’ to study in relation inequities, but also ‘in here’ that shapes how we do what and who gets it—that is, epistemic methodological norms, matters inclusion representation raise questions about procedura...

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introduction: non-uniformity test is essentially the only required daily qc procedure in nuclear medicine practice. noise creates statistical variation or random error in a flood image. non-uniformity on the other hand does not have statistical nature and may be regarded as systemic error. the present methods of non-uniformity calculation do not distinguish between these two types of error. the...