Being hostile towards mentorship is a mistake

Fano’s inequality is a mistake

for every i. One can remark that for the first time, these inequalities were indicated by Margherita Piazzola-Beloch in [1]. She was a pupil of G. Castelnuovo, her paper presents the text of her thesis , G. Castelnuovo was the adviser of the thesis. Thus all (including G. Fano ) the subsequent authors of the variants or generalizations of the Fano inequality are out of the historical responsibi...

All You Need Is Mentorship

I find it humbling to confess that most of the truly original ideas that have driven my research group’s agenda over four decades of time have come, not from my own brain, but instead from the minds of my trainees, both graduate students and post-docs. This on its own might explain why I, rather selfishly, have given them long leashes, allowing them to strike out on their own and craft their ow...

Failure to look beyond blocks is a mistake.

Tamm and Hilgers are to be congratulated for bringing more attention to a rather important issue in trial design, namely chronological bias. Far too many researchers use permuted blocks without even recognizing that chronological bias is the reason they do it. Only armed with the rationale can we hope to enter an informed discussion regarding the merits, or lack thereof, for using permuted bloc...

Invited commentary: is it a mistake to focus on errors?

Is Yoga effective in well-being sensation?

Introduction: Yoga means unity of body and mind which has been as traditional medicine in the East for 3-5 thousands years and recently it is utilized as a complementary/alternative medicine in the West. Many surveys have been undertaken to evaluate the physiologic function and positive effects of yoga in physical, mental and social health. Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted ...