patients intuitive advantages of a shortened operative process and quality of life benefits compared with traditional tissue expanders and implants (TE/I); however, the literature suggests that DTI is fraught with complications and revision rates as high as 85% in some reports. We sought to better understand our breast patients by comparing DTI and TE/I, focusing on these two potential downside...

Although nowadays adaptive user interfaces (AUIs) can be found in many applications, many downsides and jeopardies of AUIs are not yet sufficiently researched. We take a user-centered design in the development of an adaptive application and demonstrate that the userfriendliness of an adaptive application benefits from an early and iterative evaluation of the adaptation rules. Drawbacks of adapt...

While the positive economic impact of tourism cannot be denied, it has also a number negative side effects. The article focuses on residents’ perception regarding tourist activity and identifying factors influencing their acceptance for activity, in Constanta (Romania). A questionnaire based quantitative research was employed, creating several indexes, subsequently included econometric models o...

BACKGROUND Decision aids (DA) are tools designed to help patients make specific and deliberative choices among disease management options. DAs can improve the quality of decision-making and reduce decisional conflict. An area not covered by a DA is the decision of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to use inhaled steroids which requires balancing the benefits and downsi...

Being a scientist almost always means that you have to pack up and move at least once—if not several times— during your career. For some, particularly in the USA or other large countries, this relocation takes place within their own country. For many others, however, it involves crossing borders. My own scientific travel itinerary includes Ireland, England, USA, France and Germany. This meant c...

Interconnectivity and feedback control are hallmarks of biological systems. This includes communication between organelles, which allows them to function and adapt to changing cellular environments. While the specific mechanisms for all communications remain opaque, unraveling the wiring of organelle networks is critical to understand how biological systems are built and why they might collapse...