Antiferromagnetism Questions Asked and Answered

Asked, Not Answered

There is a general agreement that before a therapy can be accepted into widespread clinical use, demonstration of efficacy in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) is absolutely necessary. There are, however, a growing number of experts who believe that demonstration of RCT efficacy might not be a sufficient basis for widespread acceptance.1 RCTs may not enroll subjects representative of patients i...

Agent-based modelling of pedestrian movements: the questions that need to be asked and answered

Vulnerable road users have steadily attracted increased importance in transport and planning. The behaviour of pedestrian movements (especially in the areas off but adjacent to roads) requires improved tools to address the issues now being raised. Such behaviour and interactions can now be modelled by using a combination of massively parallel processes simulating individual pedestrians, and a s...

Questions asked and answered in pilot and feasibility randomized controlled trials

BACKGROUND In the last decade several authors have reviewed the features of pilot and feasibility studies and advised on the issues that should be addressed within them. We extend this literature by examining published pilot/feasibility trials that incorporate random allocation, examining their stated objectives, results presented and conclusions drawn, and comparing drug and non-drug trials. ...

Core issues of unionization: your ten most frequently asked questions answered.

Pregnancy in renal transplant recipients: more questions answered, still more asked.

In this issue of CJASN, Bramham et al. identified pregnant kidney transplant recipients being managed by practitioners participating in the UK Obstetric Surveillance System, comparing their outcomes with those of a cohort consisting of two women without kidney transplants that had delivered at the same hospital just before the transplant recipients’ delivery (1). This article is one of several ...