Background An independent observer can improve procedural quality. We evaluated the impact of (Hawthorne effect) on important quality metrics during colonoscopies. Methods In a single-center comparative study, consecutive patients undergoing routine screening or diagnostic colonoscopy were prospectively enrolled. index group, all steps and observed documented, procedure was video recorded by an...

Context-Aware Computing Guruduth Banavar, Jay Black, Ramón Cáceres, Maria Ebling, Edie Stern, Joseph Kannry {banavar, caceres, ebling, estern}@us.ibm.com IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Hawthorne, NY, USA [email protected] Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics Mou...

The continuous repetition of Christian de Duve’s primary thesis in Genetics of Original Sin ensures that however little the reader understands or is interested in biology, he will have no doubt as to the author’s primary concern: Natural selection has made humans poor prognosticators. As evolutionary adaptation is all about living (and reproducing) in the moment, humans have evolved some unfort...

The continuous repetition of Christian de Duve’s primary thesis in Genetics of Original Sin ensures that however little the reader understands or is interested in biology, he will have no doubt as to the author’s primary concern: Natural selection has made humans poor prognosticators. As evolutionary adaptation is all about living (and reproducing) in the moment, humans have evolved some unfort...

TITLE 1 Postnatal development attunes olfactory bulb mitral cells to high frequency signaling 2 3 ABBREVIATED TITLE 4 Postnatal development of mitral cell intrinsic properties 5 6 AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS 7 Yiyi Yu, Shawn D. Burton, Shreejoy J. Tripathy, Nathaniel N. Urban 8 9 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and Department of 10 Biological Science...