Avoiding Pitfalls in Feasibility Studies

Candidate gene studies in respiratory disease: avoiding the pitfalls.

Avoiding OCL specification pitfalls

This paper discusses about teaching software modeling by using OCL specifications, in the context in which the web represents the main source of information. The raise of the interest for models induced a higher need for clear and complete specifications. In case of models specified by means of MOF-based languages, adding OCL constraints proved to be an interesting answer to this need. Several ...

Avoiding MCDA Evaluation Pitfalls

One is not required to be a mechanical engineer to drive a car and, considering the advanced state of mechanical engineering, most people limit their interest in what lies “under the hood” to finding a competent mechanic. Users of evaluation, risk, and decision analysis tools that are based on classical decision theory should be aware that, as is demonstrated below, classical MCDA (multi-criter...

Osteoarthritis Diagnosis: Avoiding the Pitfalls

A common pitfall in the diagnosis of OA is misinterpretation of the patient's symptoms and signs. Pain is the predominant symptom in patients with OA, and OA pain has typical characteristics. However, pain may arise not only from intra-articular structures but also from periarticular muscle spasm or soft tissue rheumatism. Differentiation of articular pain from periarticular pain is important b...

Fluorescence microscopy--avoiding the pitfalls.

There was an error published in J. Cell Sci. 120, 1703-1705. On p. 1704, in the section ‘Image acquisition’, line 6 should read ‘all four pixels in a 2 2 square are summed into a single pixel’. For clarification, 2 2 binned pixels are twice the height and twice the width of the original pixel, but the pixel area is four times larger; similarly, for a 4 4 binned image the pixel height and width ...