All clinicians are aware of the importance of reaching the correct diagnosis. It is impressed on every medical student and trainee from the outset. Khuller et al argue that diagnosis is more important than ever before because the patient has so much to lose when there is a misdiagnosis. A diagnostic error may result in the patient being denied timely, effective therapy or being administered pot...

The journal impact factor (IF) exerts a tremendous influence on the conduct of scientists. The obsession with IF has been compared to a medical condition, sometimes referred to as "IF mania" or "impactitis." Here, we analyze the difference between impact and importance, using examples from the history of science to show that these are not equivalent. If impact does not necessarily equal importa...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah wisata religi juga memiliki dampak yang signifikan terhadap perkembangan lingkungan sekitar. Metode penelitian digunakan adalah sistematic literature review dengan melalui serangkaian seleksi, artikel memenuhi kriteria kemudian dianalisis lebih lanjut Dari hasil analisis didapatkan sepuluh judul serta abstrak relevan. Kemudian diseleksi kembali l...

We use panel probit models with unobserved heterogeneity and serially correlated errors in order to analyze the determinants and the dynamics of current-account reversals for a panel of developing and emerging countries. The likelihood evaluation of these models requires high-dimensional integration for which we use a generic procedure known as Efficient Importance Sampling (EIS). Our empirical...