Virtually all new drugs are introduced, evaluated, and marketed under the control of the pharmaceutical industry and general supervision of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The clinical investigator must look to the pharmaceutical industry for support of studies of drugs, and the industry, in turn, needs the investigator to evaluate agents before FDA approval and to present findings in t...

New smartphones made by small companies enter the technology market everyday. These new devices introduce challenges for mobile forensic investigators as these end up becoming pertinent evidence during an investigation. One such device is PinePhone from Pine Microsystems (Pine64). are sometimes also shipped with OSes that developed open source communities and otherwise never seen investigators....

For the purposes of this article, we define clinical research as that form of medical research that involves human beings as the direct subjects of the research at the individual or a population level. The research may involve the study of biological samples (eg, blood, genes, proteins, and tissue) as a means to understand the individual or the group, but the ultimate objective for the clinical...

Most neurons in the mammalian brain receive thousands of excitatory synaptic inputs that are widely distributed along the dendritic arbor and activated with varying degrees of synchrony. Summation of unitary synaptic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) at the dendrite is crucial for initiation of the action potential. Patterned neuronal activity, which is known to modify synaptic transmi...

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Preface A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE), 1 a multi-institution, multidisciplinary, academic research project funded by the National Science Foundation's...

Recently, I reviewed abstracts and presentations on topics of interest from the recent (virtual) meeting European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO). downloaded 10 describing results phase III randomized controlled trials (RCTs) breast genitourinary cancer. Independent quality or importance their results, was struck by two things: in 9 abstracts, list potential conflicts (COI) authors longer t...

This research examined the impact of eyewitness identification decisions on student-investigators. Undergraduates played the role of police investigators and interviewed student-witnesses who had been shown either a good or poor view of the perpetrator in a videotaped crime. Based on information obtained from the witness, student-investigators then chose a suspect from a database containing inf...