The attack on the World Trade Center had the potential to overwhelm New York's health services. Sadly, however, the predicted thousands of treatable patients failed to materialize. Horror and sadness has now been replaced by anger, fear, and the determination to be better prepared next time. This determination not only exists in politics but also in health care, and as with all attempts to enfo...

Witwer (1 ) observes in his review of miRNA studies that “data submission was reported at publication for 40% of all articles.” Sadly, the problem of poor data reporting is neither new nor restricted to miRNA data. Poor access to data motivated the 2001 MIAME (minimum information about a microarray experiment) standards in the first place (2 ). In 2008, Ochsner et al. (3 ) reviewed microarray s...

During the postwar heyday of physics, C.P. Snow, wrote a short article entitled “The Two Cultures” (1954). There he pointed out the growing division between the ‘science culture” and the “non-science (literary) culture.” He observed that scientists basically had no understanding of nay, even any concern for -literary culture, and vice versa. He pointed out the profound loss to society that was ...

In case a. we mentioned the lemma of Neyman & Pearson, and using log ratio statistics. In this case we have to estimate which of the two suggested hypotheses is true (which one is more likely). In case b. we have one hypothesis H0 and we have to estimate if it is true or not. In science, usually the null hypothesis H0 says the dull regular conception that everyone goes by, and the scientist wis...

Christian adult learners are to be trained demonstrate Christlikenessand become agents of change in the society where there is decadence morality and godliness. Sadly, many institutions that engage education not preparing their students function as a corrupt society. Instead, most have concentrated on development both intellectually theologically. The purpose train workers for kingdom Christ. U...

As important informatics interventions, clinical reminders (CRs) translate emerging knowledge into accessible advice at the point-of-care. In a timely fashion, CRs prompt clinicians to take specific actions that can improve or optimize patient care. To ensure that CRs achieve their desired impact, systems must deliver CRs to the clinicians most likely to act on them. Sadly, CRs many times pass ...

1.1. Billiard trajectories and “unfolding”. The mathematics of billiards might be considered an abstraction of the game of billiards, but the sense in which this is true is (sadly) guaranteed not to improve your pool game. First, we remove the pockets and consider a single ball’s motion to be modeled by a point moving in straight lines. Then, we replace the rectangular boundary of the table by ...

Strong primary care is a fundamental underpinning of high-performing health systems. Sadly, primary care infrastructure and performance in canada lag behind many of our international peers. Although substantial reforms have been implemented over the past decade, progress has been uneven, and no province has all the essential system elements in place. Continued investment is both needed and affo...

One of the most thought-provoking aspects of the paper by Pearson and Macintosh (2001) is the simple observation that the management practice described is in any way noteworthy. After all, it amounts to little more than a description of care, some measurement of outcome, and the incorporation of basic software. If this is exceptional, what is going on elsewhere? A public brought up on American ...

The philosophy of chemistry has been sadly neglected by most contempory literature in the philosophy of science. This paper argues that this neglect has been unfortunate and that there is much to be learned from paying greater philosophical attention to the set of issues defined by the philosophy of chemistry. The potential contribution of this field to such current topics as reduction, laws, e...